Published: April 21, 2015 Publication: NY Post By Carl Campanile The city’s traffic enforcement agents will continue to wear NYPD blue. So says Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who torpedoed talk that police brass were mulling replacing their uniforms. The discussions — reported by The Post last month — provoked a firestorm of opposition from the agents, who worried that wearing distinctive new duds would imperil their safety. They argued that wearing NYPD blue reduces assau

Published: April 20, 2015 Publication: The Chief By Mark Toor Regional officials of the Communications Workers of America have ordered a runoff election for Local 1182, which represents Traffic Enforcement Agents. A segment of the union had wanted the election, held last December, to be redone from scratch. In a letter dated April 14, Region 1 Vice President Chris Shelton said the runoff for five offices, including president, must be held within 30 days of the date of his rul

Published: April 3, 2015 Publication: NY Post By Carl Campanile and Kirstan Conley It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — in the new state ­budget. The $142 billion spending plan ­includes $125,000 in appropriations for the Christmas Tree Farmers Association of New York, which got one of the hundreds of pork-barrel grants handed out. Cornell University received $12,000 for onion research and another $200,000 for beer-making research; lawmakers earmarked $12,000 for hon

Published: April 1, 2015 Publication: Daily News By Juan Gonzalez Third-grader Storm McCraw was expelled from Harlem Success Academy 2 on Friday, after a disciplinary hearing that resembled a kangaroo court. Prior to the boy’s ouster, administrators from the Success Charter Network had suspended the boy an astonishing 15 times this school year. Among the allegations against him: throwing chairs and books, kicking a principal in the leg, and biting an assistant principal. On F