Here's Part 2 of my 3 Part Series on the NY State Budget Deficit. Part 1, which you can read here, was an explanation of the crisis and description of the State Senate's unfortunate and dangerous control of the cuts. 

Here’s a first: Our...

How bad is it up there in our capital? Are you trying to follow the story of our state budget, but find New York politics to be needlessly complex and boring? I'm writing three opinion pieces that describe what's happening in Albany with the budget, its severity, its media coverage,...

Why are we still talking about Eliot Spitzer’s sex scandal?

The internet seemed to erupt in collective anger last week when Mr. Spitzer gave a speech on ethics at Harvard Law. Every New York paper took the opportunity to remind the public of the low-brow, obvious irony of...

Within hours of winning their elections, Bill De Blasio, our future Public Advocate, and John Liu, our Comptroller-elect, each demonstrated their own distinct, nearly opposite styles of ineptitude and tastelessness. They both failed their first major political test by treating their invitations to meet with Mike Bloomberg as a press...

What could have swung this mayoral election into a Thompson win?

The people of New York didn't go take this vote-buy-out on their knees. Bloomberg's supposed 18 point blow-out materialized on November 3rd as a tight race with a narrow margin of 4½ points. Four and a half points that...