Ravitch to the rescue
Richard Ravitch has been the go-to guy for New York’s governors in times of fiscal emergency. Few can claim his intimate, experienced-based knowledge of state government and its finances. Which is not...
View ArticleRichard Ravitch under fire for signing on to help Puerto Rico
Richard Ravitch — the go-to guy for cash-strapped municipalities — is taking some heat for volunteering to help Puerto Rico recover from its debt crisis. Ravitch, who helped save New York in the 1970s...
View ArticleCharter foe Diane Ravitch slammed for sending kids to private school: ‘It’s...
Diane Ravitch, one of the nation's leading academicians opposed to charter schools, sent her two sons to the elite Dalton School on Manhattan's Upper East Side -- provoking cries of hypocrisy.
View ArticleRichard Ravitch, ‘titan of New York’s civic world,’ dead at 89
The former MTA chair and lieutenant governor was never elected to office, but had an immense influence on politics, transportation and housing in the state and city he called home.
View ArticleFarewell Dick Ravitch, city savior who sounded alarms NY should heed
Richard Ravitch was among the last surviving members of a remarkable generation of political and business leaders who steered New York City out of its brushes with bankruptcy in the mid-1970s.
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