THE STATE WE'RE IN.(New York City's budget deficit)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 17-FEB-03

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State of the city: wet, congested, hard up. You got your rain, your traffic, your budget problems, plus Latrell on the block and twenty-minute delays on the Ronkonkoma line of the L.I.R.R. The usual stuff.

Gifford Miller, the City Council Speaker, who is just thirty-three but is often described as the second-most-powerful elected official in town, had a different set of observations to pass along last Tuesday, in his State of the City address to Council colleagues and invited guests. In the lineup of "State of" speeches, the City Council model comes late and ranks low; not only is there the State of the Union and the...

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