Politicians

Comptroller DiNapoli To Withhold State Senators Paychecks

Comptroller DiNapoli To Withhold State Senators Paychecks »

Thursday announced plans to withhold the pay of state senators until they resolve their differences while Gov. David A. Paterson took a stab at mediation. DiNapoli said senators wouldn’t receive paychecks for the two-week period...

July 3 2009 / 1 comment / Read More »
Joe Mesi Resigns From Senate Post

Joe Mesi Resigns From Senate Post »

Joe Mesi, the former heavyweight boxer appointed to a controversial new office in Buffalo by State Senate Democrats, resigned Thursday effective immediately. Mesi, 35, who lost a contentious State Senate race last year to Republican...

July 3 2009 / No comment / Read More »

News

NY Senate Factions Work on Power Deal »

NY Senate Factions Work on Power Deal

Gov. David Paterson on Friday is scheduled to mediate a nearly four-week standoff over control of New York’s Senate. Neither the Democratic conference nor the...

Jul 3 2009 / No comment / Read More »

City Council Exploring Eliminating Public Advocate’s Office »

City Council Exploring Eliminating Public Advocate’s Office

Council Member Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn) is preparing to submit a bill to the Council that would eliminate the public advocate’s office, according to Council...

Jul 2 2009 / No comment / Read More »

NY Senate Special Session Yields No Legislation »

NY Senate Special Session Yields No Legislation

For another day, the bitterly-divided State Senate was forced by Governor David Paterson to meet Wednesday afternoon for a brief, fruitless special session. Both Democrats...

Jul 1 2009 / No comment / Read More »

GOP Claims NY Senate Records Doctored after Coup »

GOP Claims NY Senate Records Doctored after Coup

The Republican-dominated faction claiming control of the New York Senate says a Democrat-appointed official doctored the original, official minutes of the session three weeks...

Jul 1 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Issues

City Proposes New Plan for Gowanus Canal Cleanup »

City Proposes New Plan for Gowanus Canal Cleanup

Fighting to prevent the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn from being labeled a Superfund site, city officials are proposing an alternative cleanup plan that they say would still be overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency but would take only about half the time a Superfund project...

Jul 2 2009 / No comment / Read More »

New York City Confirms Six More H1N1-Related Deaths »

New York City Confirms Six More H1N1-Related Deaths

The New York City Department of Health Wednesday confirmed six more deaths linked to the H1N1 virus. According to the agency’s website, the latest figures bring the city’s death toll to 38. Identities of the victims have not been released, but health officials say they were all...

Jul 1 2009 / No comment / Read More »

NYC Film and Television Tax Credit Exhausted »

NYC Film and Television Tax Credit Exhausted

The Mayor’s office of Film and Television has announced that as of Tuesday, June 30, 2009, New York City’s “Made in NY” tax credit for qualified film and television production – the only one of its kind administered by a city in the US –...

Jul 1 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Real-estate

Javits Center Expansion Project Moves Forward »

Javits Center Expansion Project Moves ForwardThe renovation and expansion of the Jacob Javits Center will soon get underway. The Public Authority Control Board signed off on the project Thursday, permitting crews...

Jul 2 2009 / No comment / Read More »
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David Paterson

Governor Announces Lawmakers Will Not Get Paid

Governor Announces Lawmakers Will Not Get Paid

Saying that the only deal the fractured New York State senators are working on “is the weekend,” Governor David Paterson announced today that he has stopped paying lawmakers’ member items and is going...

Jun 26, 2009 / More »

Christine Quinn

Christine Quinn Reluctant To Endorse Democrat For Mayor

Christine Quinn Reluctant To Endorse Democrat For Mayor

Council Speaker Christine Quinn told voters Thursday night she couldn’t promise to endorse the Democratic nominee for mayor, leaving open the possibility the city’s most powerful Democratic official could endorse Mayor Bloomberg. “After the...

Apr 17, 2009 / More »

Kirsten Gillibrand

Democrats Line Up To Challenge Kirsten Gillibrand

Democrats Line Up To Challenge Kirsten Gillibrand

Efforts by the White House and Sen. Chuck Schumer to prevent a Democratic primary challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand next year appear to be failing. Despite their success in getting Rep. Steve Israel to...

Jun 29, 2009 / More »

Malcolm Smith

Malcolm Smith Used Campaign Funds to Give “Personal Loan”

Malcolm Smith Used Campaign Funds to Give “Personal Loan”

Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith used campaign funds to give a fellow Democratic lawmaker a $2,800 “personal loan” - a possible violation of state election law. Smith, a Queens Democrat, gave the money to...

Jan 23, 2009 / More »

Hiram Monserrate

Hiram Monserrate’s Lawyers Claim Grand Jury Was Tainted

Hiram Monserrate’s Lawyers Claim Grand Jury Was Tainted

State Senator Hiram Monserrate’s lawyers reportedly want his assault indictment thrown out because a police officer who was on his grand jury works in the precinct that investigated him. According to a report in...

May 29, 2009 / More »

Michael Bloomberg

Bloomberg Studying Employer Paid Sick Days Legislation

Bloomberg Studying Employer Paid Sick Days Legislation

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says his administration is looking at the concept of forcing employers to provide paid sick days. Two other U.S. cities have such measures – San Francisco and Washington, D.C....

Jul 2, 2009 / More »

William Thompson

LGBT Groups Throw Support Behind Bill Thompson

LGBT Groups Throw Support Behind Bill Thompson

City Comptroller Bill Thompson has picked up the support of LGBT New Yorkers for his mayoral bid. At a rally Saturday in Bryant Part, hundreds of LGBT New Yorkers and four of the largest...

Jun 21, 2009 / More »

Pedro Espada

Probe Puts Pedro Espada Back In Hot Water

Probe Puts Pedro Espada Back In Hot Water

The Bronx politician at the center of the Albany coup has new problems, CBS 2 has learned exclusively. Official documents we obtained show Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. listed his residence as a home...

Jun 18, 2009 / More »
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