ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. David Paterson wants the Legislature to grant him emergency, one-time power to close a $3.2 billion deficit in the ...
Johnathan Wilber | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
I guess I need one of these evangelists to explain the "it's nothing personal" thing to me. Because frankly I can't imagine a single thing more personal than denying my family rights.
NY1 | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York
With the announcement Tuesday from members of the New York State Senate that they'll put same-sex marriage legislation to a vote before the end of the...
AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — With New York drowning in deepening deficit spending and running out of cash to pay huge bills due next month, the Legislature me...
Nathaniel Frank | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York
New York State Senator Rubén Díaz Sr.'s opposition to marriage equality in New York state is just plain stupid, and history must hold him to account.
AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. David Paterson on Monday urged lawmakers to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, calling it "an issue that touches on the...
AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN | Posted 11.01.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — For more than a decade, state Senate Republican leader Joseph Bruno was a top power broker in New York. The backslapping former b...
AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 10.23.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. David Paterson said Thursday that he expects to sign a same-sex marriage bill into law in the coming weeks. Paters...
The New York Observer | Jimmy Vielkind | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York
This week, Schneiderman was announced as leader of a panel charged deciding the fate of Senator Hiram Monserrate, a Queens Democrat who had just been ...
Dan Collins | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
There is only one possible upside to the pathetic, miserable, appalling story of New York state Senator Hiram Monserrate: Teenagers are not generally known to take state legislators as role models.
Posted 10.15.2009 | New York
New York State Senator Hiram Monserrate was found not guilty on two counts of felony assault in his slash-and-gash case today. The Queens Democrat wa...
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 11.22.2009 | New York
A newly released video in the Hiram Monserrate assault trial shows the state senator violently dragging his girlfriend through the hallway of an apart...
New York Times | NICHOLAS CONFESSORE | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York
Three months after a State Senate revolt catapulted him to infamy and power, Mr. Espada - audacious, unapologetic, a magnet for prosecutors - is seizi...
1010WINS | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP/ 1010 WINS) -- A Democratic assemblyman says Democratic Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada should quit, saying the Bronx senator wh...
New York Times | RAY RIVERA | Posted 10.17.2009 | New York
Pedro Espada Jr., the majority leader of the State Senate who is already at odds with tenant advocacy groups, appointed a new deputy chief of staff la...
Times Union | IRENE JAY LIU | Posted 09.19.2009 | New York
As Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. fended off scrutiny over his son's short-lived Senate job, the chamber's Democrat leaders authorized $350,000 in pay raises a...
Dan Collins | Posted 09.18.2009 | New York
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.
Posted 09.18.2009 | New York
A Quinnipiac Poll released today reveals that a large majority of New Yorkers believe that the state government is the worst or among the worst in the...
New York Times | DANNY HAKIM and NICHOLAS CONFESSORE | Posted 09.14.2009 | New York
ALBANY - A former Senate employee who is suing the state over his dismissal in 2007 said on Thursday that he had testified under oath this week that h...
nytimes.com | NICHOLAS CONFESSORE | Posted 09.12.2009 | New York
ALBANY -- Losing the majority in the State Senate last year cost Republicans the choice office space they long occupied in the Capitol, their committe...
Kathryn Wylde | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York
From a business perspective, nothing could be worse during this period of economic uncertainty than the chaos and instability that have characterized New York state government during the past two years.
Daily Intel | Daily Intel | Posted 09.10.2009 | Home
How badly did Democrats in Albany want to lure turncoat senator Pedro Espada Jr. back to their side? Well, we know they crowned him majority leader of...
David Vines | Posted 09.07.2009 | New York
It's unfortunate but generally true that most people, even the most informed political junkies, do not know who their state senator is.
Times Union | Times Union | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York
Under Democratic control of the Senate, upstate lost nearly $26 million in member items, the discretionary grants doled out by legislators commonly ca...
Ester Fuchs | Posted 08.18.2009 | Home
NYC is the poster child for America's dysfunctional federalism. It makes no difference the magnitude of the crisis. We can be in the deepest recession since the great Depression and the City is held hostage to the unaccountable politics of Albany.
AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York