The White House made Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack apologize to ousted USDA boss Shirley Sherrod. But Rep. Ed Towns, chairman of the House Committee On Oversight and Government Reform, wants...

Joan Millman Lawmakers have until midnight to sign on to former Mayor Ed Koch's New York Uprising reform plan -- and plenty already have -- or end up in his...

Joan Millman Lawmakers have until midnight to sign on to former Mayor Ed Koch's New York Uprising reform plan -- and plenty already have -- or end up in his...

Amid the harsh words and hard feelings surrounding the proposed building of a mosque near Ground Zero, NY-1 Congressional hopeful George Demos is speaking out about the issue for...

The coordinator of the NYC Independence Party is planning to use her testimony to tonight's city Charter Revision Commission hearing to take a whack at state IP Chairman Frank MacKay....

Republican Congressional hopeful Chris Cox announces he's scored the campaign backing of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. “Chris is a leader with fresh ideas, a dedication to government accountability,...

Republican Congressional hopeful Chris Cox announces he's scored the campaign backing of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. “Chris is a leader with fresh ideas, a dedication to government accountability,...

Welcome to the 2010 Race For Governor of New York. First, we had grown men in diapers and baby bonnets campaigning on Seventh Avenue. Then we had a nice little...

Welcome to the 2010 Race For Governor of New York. First, we had grown men in diapers and baby bonnets campaigning on Seventh Avenue. Then we had a nice little...

To mangle a phrase from The Pointer Sisters, the state Dems are excited -- and they just can't hide it. They're not even trying. NYS Dems Chairman Jay Jacobs is...

Gov. Paterson escalated his feud with state lawmakers this morning and set the stage for another yet-to-be scheduled special session on the budget, our Glenn Blain reports from the...

"Vote Schneiderman!" Rep. Charlie Rangel and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn may be big names in New York politics, but Democrat Eric Schneiderman has picked up a bona fide star...

To follow up on the NYC petition ledgers I posted just a bit ago, here are their state counterparts. First, the designation report, and after the jump, the objection report....

Sen. Pedro Espada, Jr. Having endorsed state Sen. Pedro Espada, Jr.'s rival for the Democratic nomination, the Working Families Party is moving into Phase II of its effort to boot...

I see the petition objection listings I put up the other day were a real hit, as were the Independence Party endorsements I blogged yesterday. So here (and also on...

Good morning! Martin Dunn We bid farewell and the best of luck to our editor-in-chief, Martin Dunn, who is stepping down for family medical reasons and will be succeeded by...

The U.S. Senate passed an unemployment benefits extension. The City Council's Standards and Ethics Committee will have a closed-door session tomorrow to discuss Ydanis Rodriguez's so-called "touching incident." Michael Barbaro...

Lobbying turns out to be a recession-proof industry after all. The state Commission on Public Integrity offered something of a mea culpa this afternoon and admitted that it botched...