Staten Island Bancorp News

Dance company directors rarely have the spare time, the inclination or the funds to rethink old dances.

As Mayor Bloomberg plans to visit the scene of yesterday's massive brush fire at the former Fresh Kills landfill, questions are emerging about health effects from the fire and smoke.

The Assembly has voted to give its Transportation Committee subpoena power to take a long, hard look at the operation of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, but it wasn't welcome news all over the Statehouse.

In 2004, at Fresh Kills, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the former landfill was a possible site for the mountain biking venue, should the city land the 2012 Olympics.

Mayor Bloomberg says a waste-to-energy plant could deliver "safe, clean energy to meet the City's growing power needs." The reaction on Staten Island has been skeptical, with many wondering why Bloomberg only identified Staten Island as a possible location -- and nowhere else in the rest of the city.