Senator Charles Schumer and Republican opponent Jay Townsend took part in their first and only debate of the campaign season Sunday, with each taking ...
nytimes.com | RAYMOND HERNANDEZ | Posted 05.25.2011
Bruce A. Blakeman, the Republican candidate for New York State comptroller in 1998, said on Monday that he was exploring the possibility of a run agai...
Daily Intel | By: | Posted 05.25.2011
Kirsten Gillibrand has, up to this point, been very lucky. With her powerful guardian angels Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama watching over her, countle...
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney has decided to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the state's Democratic primary, setting the stage...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- By any measure, New York's new Democratic U.S. senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, got off to a rocky start. She was neither a Kennedy n...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama released a statement praising New York Gov. Paterson's choice of Kirsten Gillibrand to fill the state's vacant Senate seat: "Governo...
nytimes.com | DAVID M. HALBFINGER | Posted 05.25.2011
If she were applying to be, say, an undersecretary of education in Barack Obama's new administration, Caroline Kennedy would have to fill out a 63-ite...
Politico | ANDY BARR | Posted 05.25.2011
Republican Rep. Peter King of New York said Wednesday that there is "no evidence" that Caroline Kennedy is qualified to fill Hillary Rodham Clinton's ...
Joe Cutbirth | Posted 05.25.2011
It's time for reporters covering this story to dispense with the navel gazing and to get started vetting Ms. Kennedy's ideas and positions.
Eric Lurio | Posted 05.25.2011
My old friend Jeff called me up the other day, and as always, the conversation turned to politics. With Hillary Clinton leaving the Senate to be Secre...
Howie Greene | Posted 05.25.2011
This year I'll be asking folks to play "Who Wants To Be A US Senator?" With the prospects of our junior Senato being named Secretary of State by Obama, who is on your short list of replacements?
NY1.com | Posted 05.25.2011