Governor Paterson is cutting $750 million in scheduled payments to schools and social services. The MTA is set to announce drastic service cutbacks today. Pardon Me For Asking reports from Sen. Daniel Squadron's F Train town hall in...
Attorney General Eric Holder visits the courthouse downtown where the upcoming 9/11 trial will take place - and he met with Police Chief Ray Kelly about security preps. More on P.S. 94, the special needs school that could...
A source tells the Daily News a federal grand jury has begun hearing "evidence against alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four of his Al Qaeda henchmen."The story says it could take several weeks for the...
The Post's Frederic Dicker says Shelly Silver is fuming over Governor Paterson's wholesale indictment of the Legislature for failing to deal forcefully with the state's budget crisis. A source told Dicker Silver has already decided to back...
A youth minister from the Mariners' Temple Baptist Church (on Henry Street) is accused of raping a 12-year old girl. Yeshiva World News has declared Shelly Silver "foe #4" for his support of gay marriage. The Daily News continues its...
The City Council is proposing new laws cracking down on gang recruiting. East Side Our Town sizes up the race between Carolyn Maloney and Reshma Saujani.Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh's statement on the failed gay marriage bill. The New...
Governor Paterson says he will sign a deficit reduction plan that, in his view, doesn't go nearly far enough. But, he vowed to make more cuts on his own, including withholding some payments from schools. “Because
certain legislators...
The State Assembly was up late last night (and so was the Daily News). Speaker Sheldon Silver, Ways and Means Committee Chair Herman D. Farrell, Jr., and Higher Education Committee Chair Deborah Glick announced today the Assembly passed critical...
Sheldon Silver says he sees "significant progress" in negotiations to close the state's huge budget deficit. The governor still contends lawmakers have not come nearly far enough - cuts in education spending appear to be the main...
Later today the City Council will vote in favor of several bills that would force the NYPD to be a bit more lenient in issuing parking violations. Mayor Bloomberg has vowed to veto the bills, but...
