In Arizona And New York, Chickens Come Home To Roost For Immigration Foes
For a pair of Arizona and New York Republicans known for their hard line on immigration, political defeat could be seen as a case of the chickens comi...
For a pair of Arizona and New York Republicans known for their hard line on immigration, political defeat could be seen as a case of the chickens comi...
Posted 01.08.2012
Every four years New York City has a sleepy, quiet election day, with no major ballot initiatives and maybe one or two races that actually grab voters...
Ted Hesson | Posted 10.11.2011
Robert Reecks will be remembered as an accomplished leader within the Suffolk police department. But Reecks also faced criticism for his handling of hate crimes; specifically those perpetrated against Latinos.
Posted 06.27.2011
UPDATE: CBS News says Steve Levy adamantly denies the New York Post's story. From CBS: “This story, it was made up. There’s no truth to it,” ...
Posted 06.01.2011
According to Steve Levy's new book on Google, In the Plex, Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempted to have the search engine censor information that appeare...
Ted Hesson | Posted 05.25.2011
While it was crooked fundraising that torpedoed Levy's political career, the county executive continues to face scrutiny over his handling of hate crimes.
Ted Hesson | Posted 05.25.2011
Levy and his longtime hate crimes commander have embarked in a war-of-words, and the resulting feud serves as an indictment of the way Suffolk has handled such crimes.
Warren Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011
I confess. Rather than observing the nationwide moment of silence President Obama called for at 11 a.m. this morning, I wrote this post. Sil...
AP | BETH FOUHY and MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo declared his candidacy for governor Saturday, delivering an impassioned call for political ref...
AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — If the national political climate this year is supposed to favor Republicans, participants in the New York governor's race apparently...
Posted 05.25.2011
New York is full of winners... and of losers. Each week HuffPost New York will be praising those who ended up ahead and calling out those who fell be...
John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011
Though the New Jersey state Supreme Court has taken progressive strides, the latest from Governor Christie this week was not an act of ideology -- it was an act of power.
nydailynews.com | By Glenn Blain and Kenneth Lovett | Posted 05.25.2011
Gov. Paterson slammed two of the Republicans who want his job this morning, saying they "know nothing" and should not be running for the state's top o...
Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011
Rick Lazio seems like a pleasant and apparently rather well-adjusted guy. For that very reason, you have to wonder what he's doing in New York politics.
John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011
Steve Levy is picking up some support from New York and national Republicans, though bet on Rick Lazio to be the GOP nominee for NY governor, for no other reason than that we've seen this movie before -- in 1994.
Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011
Only in America can the son of a three-term governor who is himself serving as state attorney general portray himself as an outsider in state government.
nypost.com | Posted 05.25.2011
The head of the upstate Essex County GOP is calling on state GOP chairman Ed Cox to resign, accusing him of "dividing" the party with his recruitment ...
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
The campaign for the Republican nomination for governor was blown wide open on Thursday as the party's presumptive frontrunner, Rick A. Lazio, lost ke...
Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011
In New York, elections are frequently contests between Democrats and phony Republicans. But Steve Levy is different from most New York faux Republicans, who tend to be social liberals with an aura of fiscal conservatism.
Posted 05.25.2011
Spring has finally sprung in the Big Apple. Let's look back at the last (official) week of winter in 2010. ...
nytimes.com | JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 05.25.2011
A governor's race that seemed all but settled is about to be upended again, by a popular Democrat from Long Island who is set to announce that he is s...
nytimes.com | JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 05.25.2011
The Republican nomination for governor, which had for months seemed all but locked up by former United States Representative Rick A. Lazio, became a m...
Warren Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011
Is it really possible that a paper with the stature of Newsday could succumb to the pressures of a crude nativist bully of a politician like Steve Levy?
Tom Watson | Posted 05.25.2011
A year ago Sunday, a group of teens left Marcelo Lucero bleeding and dying on a street in Patchogue, New York - with a knife wound to the chest. Lucer...
Frank Sharry | Posted 05.25.2011
Harold Ford voted for the infamous Sensenbrenner criminalization bill -- the one that would have thrown undocumented immigrants, and the priests, nuns, nurses and teachers who assist them, into jail for a year.
Posted 01.10.2012