Task Force

Sign outside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. - Dec. 14, 2012 (credit: DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)

Newtown Panel Votes Unanimously To Tear Down Sandy Hook Elementary School

The panel had narrowed a list of choices to renovating or rebuilding on the school site or building a new school on property down the street. Each would cost between about $48 million and $60 million.

2013/05/11

School Security Task Force Set Up For Bergen County

Officials in Bergen County, N.J., formed a task force Monday to focus on school security assessments.

2013/04/01

SWAT team members canvas the neighborhood where the Newtown school massacre killer lived with his mother on Dec. 14, 2012. (Photo: CBS 2)

Conn. Gun Violence Task Force Website Goes Live

The website allows the public to submit testimony on several ideas being considered in the wake of the Newtown school shooting.

2013/01/22

Sandy Task Force In Rockaway Beach Dec. 10, 2012 (credit: Marla Diamond/WCBS 880)

NY State Senate Forms Bipartisan Task Force On Sandy Recovery

The members of the task force will tour and hold hearings in damaged communities across the New York metropolitan region.

2012/12/10

Superstorm Sandy Victims: Federal Aid Can’t Come Fast Enough

Superstorm Sandy victims had their sights Saturday on Washington, D.C., hoping to avoid political gridlock as they work to get the money needed to recover from the storm.

2012/12/08

NYC Street Parking Sign (credit: Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Proposed Task Force Would Take On Confusing Parking Signs

If you have been confused by parking signs, stacked on top of each other, giving conflicting direction, you’re not alone. Councilman Dan Garodnick understands your dilemma.

2011/12/08

Report: Group Files Medicaid Ethics Complaint

The advocates accuse some of the team’s members appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo of capping malpractice awards to serve the hospitals that employ them.

2011/03/08

Cuomo’s Medicaid Reform Task Force Hits Target

The goal of the overhaul is to move nearly every one of the state’s 4.7 million recipients of the government healthcare program to managed care in three years, ending the use of hospital emergency rooms that drive up costs.

2011/02/25