Citizens Budget Commission

The Citizens Budget Commission holds a panel discussion on how to better connect funding allocations and improved performance in the City's budget at the NYU Conference Center within The Woolworth Building.

The National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS commemorates World AIDS Day on the steps of City Hall.

The Assembly holds a hearing on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority at 250 Broadway.

The Postal Service and elected officials will dedicate the Woodside Post Office Building in honor of Tom Manton.

Roger Toussaint addresses students at the Bronx Community College Gould Memorial Library.

Assemblyman Jose Peralta and Curtis Sliwa announce a South American initiative at the Assemblyman's office in Jackson Heights.

Brooklyn youth mark World AIDS Day with a rally and march across the Brooklyn Bridge for AIDS education beginning in Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza.

John Liu discusses transportation priorities at a forum sponsored by the Lexington Democratic Club at Brown Gardens.

The Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods holds a public information session on the Atlantic Yards final environmental impact statement at Lafayette Presbyterian Church.

Bill Clinton, Sonia Gandhi and French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy will mark World AIDS Day in New Delhi by announcing progress in increasing access to pediatric HIV/AIDS treatment.

—Nicole Brydson

The Citizens Budget Commission hosts a forum on how to balance the MTA's budget at the Metrazur Restaurant in Grand Central Terminal.

NYC School Bus Contractors Coalition and ATU Local 1181 will meet at the Ramada Plaza Hotel for labor negotiations.

Patrick Healy and Paul Rieckhoff will speak at the DL21C Political Author Series at the Housing Works Bookstore and Cafe.

The Municipal Art Society hosts A Eulogy to the East River's Lost Industrial Heritage.

—Nicole Brydson

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We've been struggling for a while to describe Hillary's political posture, which keeps getting labeled "moving right."

But Hillary-moves-right partisans will be disappointed by this item in today's Post, in which she sticks with Senate liberals on an anti-abortion bill we looked at last week.

The Post tries to cast this as Hillary "putting the brakes on her move to the political middle." But where's the evidence she ever actually moved on this issue, or others?

We're starting to think that the right way to cast her big, banal "common ground" speech on abortion is Hillary trying to do something more ambitious than move her position to the center: she's trying to move the issue, and position herself in the middle of a changed landscape.  read more »

In a different context, she pulled this trick off nicely at the Citizens Budget Commission dinner last night: "Here in this room [are] all of the people in America who care about fiscal responsibility."