Gov. Paterson warned Thursday that charities will have to pick up much of the burden while the state deals with its fiscal crisis. “The grim reality is that we are going to have to make some very serious and severe cuts to our budget,” Paterson told the UJA-Federation of Jewish Business Leaders at the Russian [...]
Tensions between City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn and aides to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg are erupting just a week after Ms. Quinn shepherded the mayor’s divisive legislation to loosen the city’s term limits law through the Council. Feelings are raw between the two sides largely because Ms. Quinn took heavy political shrapnel for the [...]
National Republican officials have decided to withhold financial support from all but two closely contested Congressional races in New York, as the party braces for the possibility that it could lose several more House seats in the state. The decision to abandon much of the state came after internal party polls showed Republican candidates in [...]
Gov. David A. Paterson will campaign Sunday on Long Island for two Democrats seeking to defeat veteran Republican state senators, officials said yesterday. Paterson was expected to speak at a 2 p.m. rally for Brookhaven Supervisor Brian X. Foley at the Portuguese American Center in Brentwood. Foley wants to oust state Sen. Caesar Trunzo (R-Brentwood) [...]
Dennis Delano, the Republican candidate for New York Senate District 58, has created a close race for incumbent Bill Stachowski despite the fact that he’s turned down numerous debate and interview offers. A Siena College Research Institute Poll released October 8th showed Delano leading Stachowski 49 percent to 36 percent. While Stachowski said his polls [...]
With less than a week before the election, the campaign of State Sen. William T. Stachowski is continuing its push to close the gap with his popular Republican opponent, Buffalo Police Detective Dennis Delano. Stachowski’s campaign accused Delano of possibly violating the federal Hatch Act by remaining on the Buffalo Police Department payroll while running [...]
New York foreclosure filings fell 10 percent during the third quarter, reversing a yearlong trend, according to new figures. State officials and data trackers attribute the improvement in part to a new lending reform law giving New Yorkers an extra 90 days to work to save their homes. But they warn that the drop in [...]
Records show New York‘s Republican Senate Campaign Committee gave $230,000 this month to the Independence Party, the state’s largest minor party, for its help in trying to keep the Republicans’ last power base in state government. The Independence Party then used the cash to talk about campaign issues in the district of a Republican senator [...]
After getting a $36,000 raise last year, Mayor Brian U. Stratton wants a 3 percent salary increase for 2009, and has requested his travel budget be almost tripled as part of next year’s budget. City Council members said Stratton is going against an agreement made at the time of the salary hike in March 2007 [...]
With the state’s finances souring, Gov. David A. Paterson in July took an important step to control the spiraling costs of government: a hiring freeze for state agencies. But since the July 30 freeze was declared, 31,684 people have been hired by agencies, according to a Buffalo News analysis of payroll records provided by the [...]
