While most voters are focused on November's general elections, New Yorkers have a chance to make change earlier - - Tuesday, September 9th. There are many close & important primary races, but I'll offer endorsements of the few that I've been paying particularly close attention too.

Nora Anderson is...

I can't believe I'm going to say this, but looking at the political landscape, Hillary Clinton is the most practical choice for Vice President.

Adding her name to the ticket would unite and energize the remaining Democrats who are slow to warm up to Senator Barack Obama. A recent...

When I reported last month that New York City Nightlife was under attack and asked readers to rally in support, thousands of people responded in what Gay City News called an "unprecedented Internet-fueled campaign." The meeting to grant the Roxy a new liquor license was unfortunately postponed,...

John McCain's newest ad shows Barack Obama being adored by 200,000 Germans during his recent trip abroad. Also making guest appearances in the ad are Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, two people who have nothing in common with Obama except for their fame. In the ad, titled "Celeb," John McCain...

This Tuesday, you have a real opportunity to stand up for New York City nightlife, which has been increasingly under attack from a small group of residents. These groups are fighting to end the city's legacy as a global nightlife destination, attempting to allow fewer licenses to be issued, closing...

All of America ('all' equals six million in this case) was glued to the Tony Awards Sunday, waiting with baited breath to see what show they haven't heard of would beat what other show that they haven't heard of. Once a show had been validated, by the largely ancient Tony...

New York City artist Gregory de la Haba believes the race for the Democratic Nomination has been quite a circus. That atmosphere has inspired his latest work, Election 08, which depicts the political horse race literally with "suggestively" posed horses representing Presidential Candidates Hilary Clinton & Barack Obama. More than...

Hillary Clinton and I finally agree on something. No, not her Republican gas tax plan, but that Tuesday's North Carolina primary is going to be a "game-changer."

Over the weekend in Kinston, N.C., Clinton said, "This is going to make a huge difference in what happens going forward. The entire...

Disturbingly, most of my gay friends seem fine with Clinton's campaign using racism to win votes. What will they think now that she's stood next to North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley (D) while he used a gay slur, basically implying Obama was a "pansy"?

Now,...

The fight for gay marriage in California has been a tough one during the last decade. In 2000, Proposition 22 was passed by 62% of the state's voters, limiting marriage to a man and a women. Its since been sent to the State's Supreme Court. Gov. Schwarzenegger has twice vetoed...

It's very hard to take Hillary Clinton seriously these days. Yesterday, I received three e-mails begging for donations to her broke and seriously mismanaged campaign. I feel sorry for her donors (not the defense contractors or pharmaceutical executives, but the real people) having to continue to throw good money in...

Hillary Clinton said yesterday in Philadelphia, "When it comes to finishing a fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit."

She's a lot like Rocky, all right, but less the original masterpiece and more the desperate fourth sequel, Rocky V. By the fifth film the increasingly...

I finally understand why Hillary Clinton is obsessed with health insurance mandates. As a blog over at the Baltimore Sun is reporting, the Clinton campaign failed to pay its health insurance premiums for months, racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to its providers.

The deadbeat campaign...

When Joe Drymala and I first began working on what would become Street Lights over two years ago, Barack Obama was barely known to us. Like many other Democrats, we'd both flipped out over his 2004 convention speech,...

It's a tad telling that McCain supporter and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) is absolutely beside himself when it comes to helping seat his state's Democratic delegates. Of course Gov. Crist, who has been mentioned in the press as a possible vice presidential choice for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), would...

From The Hill's Pundit Blog:

Hillary Clinton, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, implied today that she has been treated differently in this campaign because she is a woman. While I know sexism exists and is a sad part of our society, I challenge the notion that somehow it's easier...

Last night I attended the taping of Real Time With Bill Maher in Los Angeles and was absolutely horrified at the many lies and distortions coming unchallenged from Republican Congressman Jack Kingston. The rest of the panel, David Frum and Amy Walter, are no prizes but at least have some...

From The Hill's Pundit Blog:

When Connecticut Democrats united to defeat incumbent Sen. Joe Lieberman in their party's primary in 2006, there was no question he deserved to be unseated. Lieberman had been a rubber stamp on Bush's reckless war policies for years. When he was not satisfied...

For me this election is about change. Changing our party, changing Washington, changing the nation, and ultimately changing the world. I was only six years old when George Bush Sr. was elected president and ten when Clinton followed. They are the political families that I was always conscious of and...