NEW YORK -- A disgraced New York politician will spend two years in prison for using taxpayer money to fund his 2006 campaign. Queens Democrat Hiram ...

The bizarre late-night fight involving state Sen. Mark Grisanti, R-Buffalo, proves that the state legislature retains its amazing capacity to surprise, delight, amuse and nauseate.

Kruger's bribery conviction is part of the answer to an Albany mystery -- why Gov. Andrew Cuomo is so indifferent to the question of whether his Democratic Party can win back the state Senate in the next election.

Hiram Monserrate is serving the public again -- one slice at a time. The shamed former state senator is getting rid of his aggression these days by...

The Hiram Monserrate haters have another reason to grumble. The disgraced ex-State Senator's wife claims Monserrate is trying to cut the amount of ch...

Let's face it, when you count your blessings this year the first thing that springs to mind is not going to be the New York state legislature. Still, there's lots in New York to give thanks for.

The other shoe dropped Tuesday for Hiram Monserrate. The first state Senator to be expelled from that body since 1781, Monserrate was indicted by a Federal grand jury.

The Democratic and Republican party organizations continue to weaken. They are most influential in races where no one knows who the candidates are.

Ousted lawmaker Hiram Monserrate planted a kiss on his girlfriend Tuesday after a Queens judge gave the looney lovebirds the OK to see each other agai...

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's recent filing of a civil suit against State Senator Pedro Espada is another episode in the disheartening saga of public "service" in New York.

Spring has finally sprung in the Big Apple. Let's look back at the last (official) week of winter in 2010. ...

He's been called a lot of names recently - girlfriend slasher, Democratic Party traitor and public enemy No. 1 to the gay community. One thing former ...

Here's an anti-Jose Peralta flier making it's way around the district, noting that he is supportive of same-sex marriage....

Our state government, which once had the vision to build the Erie Canal, has fallen into such a funk of dysfunctional paralysis that it can no long perform even the most basic tasks.

New Yorkers within State Senator Monserrate's district, as well as others, are taking the chance to spread their "blessings" all over Monserrate's 2008 campaign page guestbook.

The strange craziness that began with the rumors that the New York Times was looking into his sex life has now reached a point that even most of David Paterson's harshest critics never expected.

Paterson's intervention in the David Johnson case, Hiram Monserrate, Scott Lee Cohen's nomination in Illinois -- all are symptoms of a casual national attitude toward violence against women.

Angered by the defeat last year of a bill that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry, a group of well-financed gay rights advocates has started...

The Working Families Party's opponents -- Republican operatives and lobbyists -- know they can't beat progressive ideas at the ballot box. So they dragged us into court.

NEW YORK � A federal judge has rejected an attempt to temporarily block the expulsion of a New York state lawmaker. Colleagues voted to remove Hi...

David W. Johnson has worked for Gov. David A. Paterson for much of his adult life. He began as a young, ambitious intern from Harlem when Mr. Paterson...

ALBANY, N.Y. — A New York lawmaker whose colleagues voted to expel him because of a misdemeanor assault conviction is filing suit in federal cou...