Will the feuding State Senate reach a deal before the gavel comes down on the Governor's special session at 3pmET? The Daily News is not mincing words: "Get them into the chamber, Governor Paterson, and nail their juvenile derrieres...
The Daily News reports Senator Daniel Squadron will co-sponsor the State Assembly passed mayoral control bill in the Senate. The latest Siena poll says 63-percent of New Yorkers think the state is headed in the wrong direction. The Assembly...
Despite the fact that the city faces a $5 billion loss in revenues and has decided to layoff 2-thousand employees, the City Council has not reduced pork barrel spending one cent. Next year's budget includes more than $48 million...
Shelly Silver's mayoral control bill passes the Assembly. The Senate? Oh, never mind. Census officials are facing an uphill battle, trying to count the estimated half million undocumented immigrants in New York. As the Gotham Gazette puts it, many...
The Albany coup's big winner is, perhaps, New York's real estate industry. The New York Times notes the "most significant expansion of rent regulation and tenant rights in a quarter-century" is now DOA. Some analysts are warning the city's...
Last night, Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council announced an election year budget deal that restores funding to a range of programs and agencies, including the city's libraries, the Fire Department and the Administration for Children's Services. According to...
State Senator Hiram Monserrate says he's coming home to the Democrats (until he decides otherwise). Meanwhile, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says he'll tell his members to go home this week if the Senate can't get its act together. As...
As Albany turns. The governor pretty much summed up the week: “The dysfunction and chaos in the Senate has wasted an entire week of the people’s business.”The City Council wants to require NYPD traffic cops to snap a photo...
The Democrats go to court... Albany hangs on every word uttered by a guy indicted three months ago for allegedly assaulting his companion with a broken glass... the governor's plea to lawmakers: "think of the lobbyists!" Just another day...
It just keeps getting weirder and weirder in Albany. The deposed Democrats lock the door to the Senate chamber so the new GOP majority can't get in. The Republicans, for their part, plan to hold court in a park...
