Public Services News Roundup

Today starts a little experiment.

Every Thursday from now on, I'll post a week's worth of links to public services-related articles from local media. And I'll ask all you neighbors and readers to chip in. What'd I miss? What'd the papers miss? What's your opinion?

CoWNA's Public Services Committee is concerned with education, public safety, sanitation, transportation and utilities -- that's what these articles are concerned with, too.

Here's this week's news:

EDUCATION

NY Times: Bill Would Allow Layoffs of Teachers With Seniority

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: New Schools, Changes Planned in Brooklyn for This September

PUBLIC SAFETY

NY Post: 911 upgrade off hook

NY Post: City’s crime spike worse

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Subterranean Police Presence Protects Subways from Terror

Brooklyn Paper: More burglary at Trader Joe’s

City Limits: Where the Murders Are

SANITATION

NY Times: New Laws Would Expand City’s Recycling Program

TRANSPORTATION

NY Daily News: Marty Markowitz lays into DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan for being bicycling 'zealot'

am New York: G train taking a hit before service cuts roll out

NY Times: To Save Millions, M.T.A. Simply Asked Vendors for a Break

NY Daily News: Port Authority payroll jumps $15,000,000 in a year, says Empire Center for New York State Policy

WPIX: Cash Strapped MTA Spending $30,000 on Newspapers

Brooklyn Paper: Cops to bikers: Don’t make us clean up after you

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn Welcomes Bike-Friendly Policy