Newsday: Bloomberg Unveils Budget Plan
…the city is poised to shed as many as 1,800 teaching jobs amid a costly standoff with its teachers’ union, and the budget proposal includes hundreds of millions of dollars in taxi medallion money that still might not come through. It also reflects the results of years of deficit-closing trims and tucks, which the mayor praises as fiscal discipline but some observers have decried as draining government services.
