by Sam Fellman The sweeping health care reform bill passed by Congress will benefit many immigrants, who now qualify for tax credits and more affordable insurance. However, because it bars undocumented immigrants from the new private insurance exchanges, critics say it runs counter to the goal of greater access to health care. The city estimates...
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March 23, 2010March 23, 2010Health Care Reform
Historic Student Loan Changes Also on Tap
by Ryan Tracy The bill even revamps the federal government’s system for making loans to college students. The loans would now be given to students directly, eliminating a decades-old program whereby private banks made student loans based on a government guarantee. For more than 100 current Yeshiva University students who hold loans under the soon-to-be-ended...
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March 11, 2010March 26, 2010Brooklyn Life, Politics
Scholars: What Atlantic Yards Could Mean
By Mustafa Mehdi Vural Atlantic Yards will change Brooklyn. But there is no unanimity among urban historians and scholars on what this change will mean for the borough. For the last six years, Atlantic Yards has been a Brooklyn tale of money, power and politics. It has been the subject of endless debate, court battles...
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March 11, 2010April 2, 2010Brooklyn Life, Multimedia, Politics, Video
Video – Hundreds Protest Atlantic Yards
Van Tieu and Yepoka Yeebo Angry residents gathered at Barclays Center outside the Atlantic Yards Project to protest as Governor David Paterson and other officials broke ground on the new home of the New Jersey Nets.
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Victim’s Mother Mourns Neighborhood
By Joseph Alexiou One day after 10-year-old Dalila Gray was shot in the hand steps away from her home at 63 Stuyvesant Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, her mother Dalila Ramirez wants to leave the neighborhood she has called home for 29 years. “It’s gonna be hard to leave,” said Ramirez, 32. “I was 3 years old...
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March 5, 2010March 11, 2010Politics
Upstate Farmers Protest in Brooklyn
Upstate farm workers protest against Brooklyn-based State Sen. Martin Dilan who voted “no” on a bill intended to improve their rights and working conditions
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March 5, 2010April 5, 2010Brooklyn Life, Multimedia, Politics, Video
Video – One Gowanus: Three Voices
Three Brooklyn residents weigh in on the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to place the Gowanus Canal on the Superfund site list.
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March 4, 2010March 11, 2010Brooklyn Life, Politics
Solidarity Against Budget Cuts
Dave "Solidarity" led budget cut protests at Brooklyn College today.
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March 4, 2010March 4, 2010Brooklyn Life, Live Wire, Politics
Black Leaders to Reconsider their Support of Paterson
The black political establishment of Harlem is weighing whether to continue supporting embattled Governor David Paterson, a Brooklyn district leader told the Ink earlier today.
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March 2, 2010March 3, 2010Brooklyn Life, Business, Politics
Gowanus: The Background
by Matthew Huisman The Environmental Protection Agency now has the legal authority to go after The City of New York and eight other polluters who for decades contributed to contamination of the Gowanus Canal. The EPA was granted the power after labeling the 1.8-mile canal that divides Red Hook and South Brooklyn from Park Slope...