The 9/11 health bill faces a vote in the Senate. Democratic backers are one Republican vote short of passage.

New York bashing is back. The GOP scuttling of the 9/11 health bill suggests it makes sense to sue to get your due. Not the message the trial-lawyer-averse Republicans might have wanted to send, but they sent it.

New York is not particularly efficient at supplying even needed services, like public schools and home health care. The idea that it could deliver quality, low-cost OTB was so ridiculous as to be almost touching.

After weeks -- years -- of sound and fury, it was a welcome finale. The Senate Republicans were shamed into giving up their opposition to the 9/11 health bill.

The celebration over passage of the bill to support ailing first responders to the 9/11 terror attack isn't quite over. It's time to take note of the winners and the losers.

While thousands of Big Apple residents struggled with the snow, their mayor exulted over the ability of tourists to get to a Spider-Man preview -- terrible snow politics.