New Year's Day is rife with pressure. You then wake up hungover, tired, feeling worse than you have felt in a long time... at least since last New Year's. Which brings me to Decembuary 0.
Alan Singer | Posted 12.27.2009 | New York
Didn't the bankers and industrialists just ruin the global economy? What gives them the right to ruin the public schools?
Posted 11.19.2009 | Business
Reforming Wall Street is a hot topic on Capitol Hill these days. Congress is currently weighing two financial reform bills that would, to varying degr...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve on Monday proposed new rules to protect consumers from unexpected costs or restrictions on gift cards. More than...
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Editor's Note: This is the second of three articles by the Investigative Fund on the credit rating companies. Read the first article here. When the n...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
The real head-scratcher for serious media-watchers right now is what the "war" between the White House and Fox News was meant to distract us from this week. The "war" itself is laughable, for a number of reasons.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.25.2009 | Business
Kenneth Feinberg is the White House Special Master for Executive Compensation, and he is tasked with placing restrictions on the pay showered upon the...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
The plan isn't going into effect until 2013. Think you're tired of TV ads and screaming folks at town hall meetings now? Picture a more local version of that for the next four years -- not a pretty sight.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
First, let's get rid of the distractions this week. Chicago will not be getting the Olympics in 2016, even after President Obama went over to Copenha...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media
The U.S. Congress has been working all year on the development of a federal shield law, which would offer journalists a "qualified privilege against d...
Posted 11.29.2009 | Impact
The Senate Finance Committee voted down an amendment by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. VA) today that would have included a public option in health care r...
Glyn Vincent | Posted 11.22.2009 | New York
Somehow not a single Democratic politician, official or one of their minions in the entire state of New York was available to make an appearance.
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors have charged a wealthy fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton and other top Democrats in an alleged $292 million P...
AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Sen. Charles Schumer is proposing new measures he says would help prevent another crash over the Hudson River like the one that killed ni...
AP | Valerie Bauman | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, freshman U.S. Rep. Scott Murphy, and U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are among t...
AP | Posted 09.06.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for a federal investigation into why a decline in retail milk prices hasn't matched the...
John Standerfer | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business
In this post-Madoff environment, where the SEC needs all the credibility it can muster, it's critical that the agency not provide a knee-jerk response to every whim of the media and politicians.
Stanton Peele | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Americans are addicted to health care. They demand more and more of it, at any cost, whatever the consequences.
Josh Sugarmann | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
After more than two decades, at noon today the gun lobby's efforts to enact a national concealed handgun law will have its first chance at success when the U.S. Senate votes.
NY1 | Posted 08.20.2009 | New York
Senator Charles Schumer says he's fighting a piece of legislation that would override New York state's tough conceal and carry gun law. At a news con...
Josh Sugarmann | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
For over two decades a top priority of the gun lobby has been establishing and expanding state laws that allow the carrying of concealed handguns by private citizens. This effort may culminate as early as today.
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
Obama again refused to give a strong defense of the public option himself. By doing so, he just dug the hole deeper. What exactly does Obama stand for in the health care debate?
New York Daily News | Erin Durkin | Posted 08.07.2009 | New York
New York's senators on Monday blasted the lack of health warnings that have left many New Yorkers unknowingly eating dangerously contaminated fish. A...
Dan Collins | Posted 07.25.2009 | New York
Once again today all eyes will turn to Albany and we'll be bringing you every new, exciting moment of dysfunction. And please, check out our bloggers
Sen. Charles E. Schumer | Posted 07.22.2009 | New York
I find that there is no better way to learn about what is going on in New York than by riding my bike through the neighborhoods and stopping and talking to people.
Una LaMarche | Posted 12.31.2009 | Comedy