If someone actually wrote the screenplay of the Albany debacle, no one would believe that such events could actually take place in an advanced democracy in 2009.
Dan Collins | Posted 07.23.2009 | New York
There's been a great deal of speculation about why the leaders of the coup in Albany would foist all this misery and disarray on their fellow New Yorkers. Pick the reasons you think are right!
New York Magazine | Jacob Gershman | Posted 07.23.2009 | New York
On June 19, 2007, the New York State Assembly passed a bill to legalize gay marriage after a three-hour floor debate that ranged from apocalyptic to h...
New York Times | DANNY HAKIM and JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 07.13.2009 | Local
ALBANY -- A justice in State Supreme Court told Democrats and Republicans on Friday morning to talk throughout the weekend to try to resolve the dispu...
New York Daily News | Elizabeth Benjamin | Posted 07.12.2009 | Local
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer - erstwhile steamroller of reform who railed against Albany and adopted the campaign slogan "Day One, Everything Changes" - ...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
It has been a bad week for New York State Democrats. Not only did they lose control of the state senate, but New York State's most powerful congressman managed to bicker with the president.
Jim Luce | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
As I travel through Sri Lanka, covering the nation as it seeks reconciliation among its diverse population after decades of conflict, I am receiving e-mails from my friends at home asking me to review the basics.
examiner.com | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business
NEW YORK - Officials say $31.7 million in federal stimulus funding will help more than 15,000 New Yorkers find jobs and receive career training. Foll...
New York Post | FREDRIC U. DICKER | Posted 06.20.2009 | Local
Gov. Paterson said today that the state's newly adopted record-high budget may be out of balance by as much as $3 billion and that next year's deficit...
Dr. Johnny Benjamin | Posted 05.23.2009 | Entertainment
In the state of New York, MMA (as governed by the unified rules) is an acceptable sporting activity.
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
A bill is pending in the New York State Legislature to temporarily lift the statute of limitations on lawsuits alleging sexual abuse of children.
Betsy Gotbaum | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
Mayor Bloomberg refuses to extend federally funded benefits to hungry, out-of-work New Yorkers while they look for jobs. Though with his friends in the financial sector, he isn't so strict.
Barri Gordon Waltcher | Posted 03.02.2009 | Living
The type of volunteering that SAHM's tend to do -- tasks associated with PTAs, sports teams, etc -- is largely viewed as unskilled, with questionable economic value.
Joanne Bamberger | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
Was Caroline nothing more than cover for New York Governor David Paterson's efforts to court and vet the candidate who would most benefit him?
Randall Amster | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics
The path to peace, while bolstered by Obama's presence, is perhaps rockier now than ever before. Peace has moved from becoming a remote ideal to a true necessity.
AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 02.28.2009 | Business
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state will lose nearly $1 billion in revenue because cash bonuses to Wall Street employees declined 44 percent last year...
Denis Campbell | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics
We are the poorer for Kennedy's decision, and I wonder how many worthy public servants never consider running because of this environment where every minor gaffe is exploited.
Claudia Ricci | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics
Less than three years ago, on a winter Sunday afternoon, Kirsten Gillibrand sat in the den of my 1850s farmhouse in upstate New York, contemplating her very first run for office.
Diane Ravitch | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
My hunch is that six weeks of intense media scrutiny was more than Caroline could stomach. People lined up to see her and to touch her. Coverage was always deferential.
Luis Montalvan and Aaron Glantz | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
Internal audits at the VA regional headquarters has revealed over half of all disability claims processed through the New York office had been illegally tampered with.
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 02.07.2009 | Business
Today Governor David Paterson gave his State of the State Address. I watched it and you can too. Why does it matter? Because the state is facing huge...
Michael Vazquez | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama's campaign, in its mastery of the myriad intricacies of our electoral process, created a strategy which has helped us rediscover and reexamine democracy in America.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
The notion that it would somehow be unfair to appoint Kennedy because she has not toiled in the House of Representatives for a decade should not be one that ordinary voters take seriously.
Erin Medlicott | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics
Rep. Slaughter believes Kennedy can learn about the issues of upstate New York, just as Hillary Clinton did during her term as the junior senator from New York.
AP | TOM HAYS and ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors said Thursday that they will not bring criminal charges against Eliot Spitzer for his role in a prostitution scan...
Liz Krueger | Posted 07.27.2009 | New York