October
2010
Increasing
Our Impact
We're
absolutely committed to building City Limits into the
city's premiere news organization for investigative journalism and
civic engagement, and thanks in large part to support from our
readers, we're starting to see results.
In the past month:
* We've joined the nationwide Investigative News Network,
which links leading public interest news  organizations.
* The Fund for Investigative Journalism and The
DeCamp Foundation have generously offered to fund special
investigations over the next year.
* We've entered into a content-sharing
partnership with Metro, the free daily paper, which will help us
reach more New Yorkers than ever before.
*
And , our Director was invited to the White House to
participate in the first African American Online Summit, one of
the Obama Administration's efforts to engage diverse online
audiences and various stakeholders.
Most
importantly,
we've been able to publish some important
stories
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 November 2010
MOM AND
POPEYES
The Death and
Life of
the Neighborhood Store
Small businesses help make New York's neighborhoods. But in our
new magazine issue, City Limits reports economic trends and policy
decisions are threatening their survival.
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FEATURED
CITYLIMITS.ORG INVESTIGATIONS |
Aftershock: Manhattan's Hospitals
Strained After St. Vincent's Closure
Our report
on how Manhattan hospitals and emergency rooms are seeing more
patients, more ambulance runs and longer wait times in the
aftermath of the closing of St. Vincent's hospital in the West
Village lead recent media coverage.
Read Our In-Depth Investigation
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Charter School
Struggling, Hires Leaders' Kin
After a tough first year, the Equality Charter School brought on
two new deans-who happened to be the life partners of two of the
school's administrators. The move raised questions. Our story got
results.
Read Story » |
AIDS Patients Battle City
Bureaucracy
Because of budget cuts, some HASA clients and HIV/AIDS advocates
say, HASA is struggling to provide housing services to its clients,
including rent subsidies that keep them from being evicted.
Read Story »
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THE FOOD STAMP/SODA
DEBATE
The Case for Healthier Food
Stamps
The city's social services commissioner makes the case for
prohibiting the use of food stamp benefits to buy sugary
drinks.
By Robert Doar
Response:
"A much better approach than taxing or banning so-called bad foods
is doing far more to make healthier food affordable and physically
available for struggling families."
By Joel Berg
Executive Director
NYC Coalition Against Hunger
Read This City Conversations
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