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Little Gordon Gekkos

Dan Collins, 09.18.2009

New York Editor-At-Large of The Huffington Post

The worst news from Albany is that things are exactly what they seem. With the obvious exception of a virtuous minority, the people who serve are there out of greed, and greed of the most depressingly base nature.

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Shameful Shysters

Henry J. Stern, 08.20.2009

Former New York City Parks Commissioner

If one wants to keep one's readers informed, one must continue to plow through the garbage, pointing out the most noisome tidbits. At the same time, one should think of ways to effect change.

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Today In HuffPost New York

Dan Collins, 08.17.2009

New York Editor-At-Large of The Huffington Post

The ability of City Council members to funnel money to community groups in their district is what the nuns in my Catholic grammar school used to call a near occasion of sin.

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Today In HuffPost New York

Dan Collins, 08.13.2009

New York Editor-At-Large of The Huffington Post

In New York, everybody's ethnic. Even the most clannish New Yorker rubs up against so many different people of so many levels of accomplishment, it's almost impossible to miss the fact that every group is a mixture of overachievers and stupendous embarrassments.

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In New York, Paterson Prevails

John R. Bohrer, 08.09.2009

Historian of 1960s American politics

Just as it began, the New York state Senate debacle of 2009 comes to an end and David Paterson, one of the Empire State's biggest punching bags, has come out on top.

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Local Politics: The Rich Get Richer

Warren Goldstein, 08.01.2009

History Department Chair, University of Hartford

"All politics is local," the late Speaker of the House Tip O'Neil opined famously. And New Yorkers have been getting a large dose of the maxim in rec...

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New York Senate Debacle: The Powerbrokers of 1965 and Pissants of 2009

John R. Bohrer, 07.31.2009

Historian of 1960s American politics

The leadership stalemate of 1965 occurred at the start of the session, when bill expiration deadlines weren't looming. Pedro Espada's defection (facilitated by Hiram Monserrate) flushed months of hard-fought negotiations and legislative footwork down the toilet.

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The Albany Saga: Too Much For Hollywood

Liz Krueger, 07.27.2009

New York State Senator

If someone actually wrote the screenplay of the Albany debacle, no one would believe that such events could actually take place in an advanced democracy in 2009.

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The Perfect Storm is Coming: Why New York's Legislative Chaos May Be Good News for Marriage Equality

Jay Michaelson, 07.24.2009

Columnist, activist and author of "Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism"

For months now, gay rights advocates in New York have been pulling strings, marshaling forces, and lobbying moderate state senators to make 2009 the y...

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Take The Albany Quiz

Dan Collins, 07.23.2009

New York Editor-At-Large of The Huffington Post

There's been a great deal of speculation about why the leaders of the coup in Albany would foist all this misery and disarray on their fellow New Yorkers. Pick the reasons you think are right!

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