"Is he speaking as a member of the decency panel?"

But at City Hall yesterday, it was hard to shake a sense that everyone involved in this decency panel was sort of going through the motions.

Nor is there a decency panel in sight at the cultural agencies that support these companies.

Unlike in previous incidents involving religious images and public art, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani was not involved, nor did his new decency panel weigh in.

Our panels are not decency panels.

If you want to call it a decency panel, good.

A few whispered, "so he thinks he's the city's arbiter of taste" (a reference to the planned mayoral "decency" panel to screen art).

Unfortunately, his recent decision to establish a "decency" panel for city-financed cultural institutions shows that he has merely switched strategies.

THIS year, New York City got a new decency panel.

Mr. Hevesi yesterday also released a new television ad stressing housing and education while taking a swipe at the mayor's decency panel.