Dan Collins

All eyes are turning to Belmont race track, where I'll Have Another will be running for the Triple Crown on June 9. Will he create a magical New York moment, becoming the first horse since Affirmed in 1978 to pull off the trick? Or will he become the 12th 3-year-old...

The FBI and the NYPD: Where's the love?

When the news came out last week about the latest version of an underwear bomb plot, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was publicly irked that he hadn't been briefed about the plot by federal officials despite the fact that days...

President Obama visited upstate New York this week. While he was there, we all speculated about whether being in New York, a state that has legalized gay marriage, would prod the president to mention his "evolving" position on the subject.

The next day, without any notable prodding from New Yorkers,...

President Obama visited upstate New York this week. While he was there, we all speculated about whether being in New York, a state that has legalized gay marriage, would prod the President to mention his "evolving" position on the subject.

The next day, without any notable prodding from New...

President Obama visited upstate New York this week. While he was there, we all speculated about whether being in New York, a state that has legalized gay marriage, would prod the President to mention his "evolving" position on the subject.

The next day, without any notable prodding from New...

Mitt Romney rolled out Rudy Giulani on Tuesday in a bid to inoculate himself from Democratic suggestions that he is too weak to have whacked Osama bin Laden. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee and Old 9/11 visited a firehouse in lower Manhattan to mark the first anniversary of the terror...

Rest in peace, Etan Patz.

It appears the 1979 disappearance of the 6-year-old Soho boy is going to remain unsolved. New York City police say there was no evidence of a body in the basement they dug up this week. Perhaps, miraculously, they will find some minor bits of...

When it comes to great New York City rivalries, sports teams and politicians have nothing on the police and fire departments.

This has been going on forever, an endless struggle for turf, power, personnel and prestige. It's generally conducted out of the sight of average New Yorkers....

The shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida has ricocheted back to New York. Minority lawmakers are up in arms about the city police practice of stopping and frisking young black and Hispanic men.

It doesn't actually relate to what happened in Florida, where Martin, 17, was tailed...

Wow, it looks as if the Republican presidential contest is almost over. New York is once again going to be too late in the game to have any national input.

Normally, I wouldn't be at all irritated. How important is it to get to decide between Mitt Romney...

Andrew Cuomo has struck another bargain. Why isn't this man running the negotiations in the Middle East?

Take a close look at the mega-agreement the governor and the legislature reached this week and you'll see why big political compromises are so hard to get done these days. There's...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie versus Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. Throw in Long Island Congressman Peter King. It's a nightmare of something you tried to avoid on school playgrounds a lifetime ago.

The issue is the NYPD's anti-terrorism activities, which seem to have extended...

Charlie Rangel. Charlie Rangel.

New York's most famous disgraced member of Congress is planning on running for another term in office, and it's making all the other New York Democrats crazy.

Rangel is looking at being re-elected at 82. Legislators often continue to perform valuable public...

Nobody expected Andrew Cuomo to become New York's Peacemaker, but that seems to be his new career. Recently, while he was slaving away in Albany, he decided to pick up the phone and call the combatants in the fight between the MSG Network and Time Warner Cable that had...

Those state legislators. You have to keep your eye on them every minute.

This week, the Lawmaker in the Headlines That Do Not Involve Policy-Making is Sen. Mark Grisanti, a Republican who represents the Buffalo area. Last weekend Grisanti got involved in a late-night bar fight.

No matter...

Do you think there's a celebrity somewhere who'd be interested in taking on redistricting?

I know it's quite a lift. But if there was ever a good cause that needed some glamour, this is it. The redistricting reformers have Ed Koch, but one 88-year-old ex-mayor doesn't...

If you're making a list of the ten most uncomfortable-looking Americans of 2012, you may want to take a look at the clip of Mitt Romney being endorsed by Donald Trump.

Why did Romney do this? Certainly not to win votes in Nevada. The only message the candidate...

Talk about a non-starter.

This week the top Democrat in the New York state legislature floated the idea that the lawmakers deserve to get pay raises.

"More and more members are full-time members of the Legislature, and it's significant that their salaries haven't kept pace with...

Anything that makes Donald Trump money is a bad idea in my book. Mark this down as a bad week.

The city has granted Trump the right to run a golf course in the Bronx which New York City taxpayers are spending at least $184 million to build.

If you have never seen a New York State of the City Speech...

What am I talking about? Of course you've never seen a State of the City speech. Nobody whose livelihood isn't tied to City Hall pays the slightest bit of attention to these annual affairs. If the...