Jason Henry

Council Member Eva Moskowitz showed this morning that her recent endorsement of the Mayor was a calculation between the lesser of two evils, and that she was by no means going to give him or his much touted Department of Education a bye when it comes to her bread and butter subject.

In a council hearing this morning, Eva grilled Jason Henry, and other DOE officials, on the lack of textbooks and copy paper in the city's schools.  read more »

Highlights of the slow coal dragging included, "I thought we had a bullpen approach - that the Mayor and the Chancellor had a bullpen approach. That the textbook person could shout over to the copy paper person," "We're still in a Soviet style mode," "Your answer is, we don't have a clue?" and "Let me ask the question another way. You have to be very lawyerly, I find."

"Is she always like this?" a woman new to City Hall asked.