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Blacks, Latinos and Women Underrepresented in NYCity’s Startups

Posted on December 17, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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New York’s startup activity is hot — but many of the city’s residents are being left out in the cold, according to a report by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. Continue reading →

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Stringer plans to reshape community

Posted on June 17, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Community

Unprecedented collaboration of government, local groups & digital tech leaders promises to reshape community engagement and city service delivery

Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer and OpenPlans (a New York-basedtechnology non-profit and the creator of Streetsblog.org) today announced the launch of Speak Up New York: the first web-based platform in New York City, sanctioned and supported by a government office, that will use online technology to transform the relationship between municipal government, community groups, and citizens. Continue reading →

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Harlem Wants Civil Eats, Now!

Posted on May 16, 2009 by | Leave a comment

Food

Every Monday brings another gloomy, doomy dispatch from the pessimistic prince of Sunday punditry, Paul Krugman. The Nobel-prize-winning Princeton economics professor and New York Times columnist is on the record–and the front of last week’s Newsweek–expressing deep skepticism about the bank bailout and keeping grown-ups across America awake at night with a frightening fable, The (Too) Little-Stimulus-That-Couldn’t.

But wait! This Monday, Krugman was feeling cautiously optimistic about the President’s proposed health care overhaul. Is Obama’s enthusiasm for reforming our health care system contagious? An uncharacteristically upbeat Krugman wrote: Continue reading →

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