Investigate Filter Fiasco
"My wife says I have a fault of believing in government," Assemblyman Michael Benjamin told us the other day when we asked what his thoughts on the filtration plant were these days. He was referring to the promises, most now broken, made to him and his colleagues by city officials when seeking the Assembly's support for building the plant in Van Cortlandt Park. Kennedy Benjamin might have missed her calling. Her critical eye would have helped save city taxpayers from footing the bill for what is increasingly being considered a public disaster.