Gov. David Paterson's state of the state speech Wednesday had a familiar ring to it: He said New York is overspending and in a fiscal, political and e...
Daniel Goldstein | Posted 01.06.2010 | New York
Right now the only security plan that exists for the proposed Atlantic Yards Nets arena in Brooklyn is a five-inch curb and some cameras to take pictures.
nypost.com | Posted 01.04.2010 | New York
President Obama still wants Gov. Paterson dumped from the Democratic ticket, even though the field of GOP candidates for governor is weaker now that R...
Charles Gasparino | Posted 12.28.2009 | New York
I give David Paterson an "A" for honesty. He's possibly the only liberal politician willing to admit publicly that the greed merchants on Wall Street are a necessary evil for big government liberalism to survive.
nypost.com | Posted 12.28.2009 | New York
Gov. Paterson's security detail has been doubled in the last year for what are being called "political" reasons, and is now bigger than the entire Sta...
nypost.com | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Paterson both still want to charge drivers to go into Manhattan -- and they each said yesterday those fees would have saved t...
nytimes.com | JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 12.15.2009 | New York
Gov. David A. Paterson is preparing to issue an executive order that would include transgender people in antidiscrimination policies that govern state...
Will Schwartz | Posted 12.10.2009 | New York
I bet this Deficit Reduction Plan (DRP) won't last us through May. That's about six months before the next bout of calamity.
Tony Newman | Posted 12.05.2009 | Politics
2009 will go down as the beginning of the end of the United States drug war. There was more debate and movement toward sensible drug policies this year than in the last nine years combined.
nydailynews.com | By Meredith Kolodner and Kenneth Lovett | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York
Even as he warned Sunday that the state is going broke, Gov. Paterson was pitching a pricey new fix to teen gun violence: Extend the school day by thr...
NY1 | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York
In an exclusive interview Monday on NY1, Governor David Paterson reaffirmed that he is running in the gubernatorial election next year and addressed t...
nytimes.com | Danny Hakim | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
Gov. David A. Paterson proposed billions of dollars in spending cuts on Thursday and raised alarms about New York's financial health as the state face...
newsday.com | Dan Janison | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York
One interesting notion drawing chatter on the political circuit: That Rangel would retire midterm, with party leaders paving the way for a poll-vexed ...
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.27.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — David Paterson thrived politically as a state senator, working his way up in a nearly all-white Albany political structure. Now,...
New York Daily News | Glenn Blain in Syracuse and Kenneth Lovett in Albany | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York
Embattled Gov. Paterson for the first time Wednesday opened the door to not running for election next year - while his wife attacked President Obama f...
The Daily Beast | Lloyd Grove | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York
President Barack Obama's amazingly awkward attempt to nudge damaged New York Gov. David Paterson out of the race to keep his job - as chronicled in la...
nydailynews.com | By Kenneth Lovett in Albany and Erica Pearson | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York
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New York Times | Jeremy W. Peters and Sewell Chan | Posted 11.22.2009 | New York
In a stunning reversal, New York State's highest court on Tuesday upheld Gov. David A. Paterson's authority to appoint a lieutenant governor. The Cou...
AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 11.22.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — As New York Gov. David Paterson's political vitality fades and a court decision over his lieutenant governor choice threatens to ...
Dan Collins | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York
Democratic voters might well prefer Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. But this hardly seems like the sort of situation that requires an emergency intervention by the most powerful person on the planet.
AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. David Paterson isn't scrapping his plans to run for the office he inherited 18 months ago, despite growing pressure from Was...
New York Times | Nicholas Confessore | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York
Showing his intention to keep his job, Gov. David A. Paterson announced on Thursday that he had selected Richard Fife, a longtime New York political o...
New York Post | Tom Namako and Frederic U. Dicker | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
Gov. Paterson tried to boot Paul McCartney's girlfriend from the MTA board, The Post has learned -- because she apparently favors globetrotting with h...
The New York Observer | Eliot Brown | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York
For years, the World Trade Center occupied a prominent stage in New York politics, as elected officials jostled over questions of design, governance a...
New York Daily News | By Glenn Blain | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson doesn't think it was such a great idea to go after all those Wall Street bonuses. Paterson Thursday took aim at a signature ...
Crain's New York Business | Posted 01.06.2010 | New York