Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has released a Year One Action Report detailing de Blasio's successes in protecting elections, public school parents, and tenants during his first year in the... MORE»
Eyebrows were raised in the progressive precints of the West Village this week when the New York Times ran a story over the weekend listing all of the New Yorkers who are licensed to carry firearms. The list included names like Roger Ailes, Alexis Stewart (daughter of Martha) and John Catsimatidis. Also on the list: Yetta Kurland, a well-known civil rights lawyer who challenged Council Speaker Christine Quinn in a spirited primary in... MORE»
In the midst of the larger debate over the state of the nation's public finances, the Obama administration presented its fiscal year 2012 budget proposal to Congress last week. Following three years during which federal outlays reached unprecedented levels, the new budget has been positioned as a step forward in addressing the serious fiscal imbalances that increasingly threaten the long-term prosperity of the United... MORE»
It seems that city residents like public school teachers, but aren't particularly fond of the teachers' unions. An overwhelming 85 percent of New York voters feel that teacher layoffs should be based on merit as opposed to seniority, a recent Quinnipiac University poll found. Most voters felt that the unions did not improve New York's educational system, and residents with children in public schools especially opposed seniority-based... MORE»
Bloomberg is going to replace light fixtures that contain the toxic chemical PCB in 772 city schools. Lawmakers are criticizing the PCB removal plan. Multi-home New York taxpayers who spend more than 183 days per year in New York City: consider yourselves... MORE»
Vice President Joe Biden spoke at a $500 a head fundraiser for 250 big-wig Democratic donors today at the midtown Sheraton, hosted by east side Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, and made a few cracks about Maloney's 2010 primary challenge by Reshma Saujani. "I wanted to come in and campaign for Carolyn earlier this past year and do a fundraiser for her then," Biden said. "But I was told were I to come in she would only get 75 percent of the vote so we put it off until... MORE»
In a reversal, President Obama ordered the Justice Department to no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court. Gay rights advocates had lambasted the president for effectively supporting the status quo by compelling the Justice Department to defend the Defense of Marriage Act; although Obama publicly criticized the policy, he said that responsibility for overturning the legislation lay with Congress. Obama's decision today to change this position saw an outpouring of praise from New York... MORE»
City Council members joined labor leaders on the steps of City Hall this morning to condemn what they called concerted attacks on unions in Wisconsin. Standing before a raucous crowd of union employees, speakers equated moves to diminish collective bargaining rights with an assault on the middle class and charged that such measures were motivated more by political calculus than by saving... MORE»
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is unveiling a new robo-call that will go into homes in Staten Island and the Brooklyn section of Congressman Michael Grimm's district. The call knocks Grimm for signing on with the G.O.P.'s budget cuts, which, the Dems say, will make New Yorkers less safe by reducing funding for police officers. Says the automated... MORE»
Vice President Joe Biden is slated to spend this afternoon in New York City, heading to an event for the Democratic National Committee and then a fundraiser for east side Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney in two separate events. The Maloney event at The Sheraton is in honor of her birthday--which was, in fact, February 19--and guests will dine on a birthday cake in the shape of the U.S. Capitol. Tickets start at... MORE»
A new Quinnipiac poll shows that voters still overwhelmingly approve of Andrew Cuomo and his diplomatic approach to governing, and that diminishing benefits for state workers is the most popular approach to balancing the... MORE»
Cuomo adviser Jeffrey Sachs is also on the health industry's payroll. A high Securities and Exchange Commission official also invested heavily in Bernie Madoff, according to a Daily News... MORE»
Hundreds of people massed in front of the News Corporation building yesterday evening in a show of solidarity with protestors in Wisconsin who have staged a days-long sit-in at the state Capitol there.... MORE»
On Thursday morning, in a wooded rear parking lot cordoned off with police tape, Sarah Palin stepped out of a big black sport-utility vehicle and entered through the gaudy gates of the Crest Hollow Country Club. She wore a dour black skirt and matching blouse; a bulky red, white and blue wrist band; and a pair of leopard print heels. Ms. Palin was not in Woodbury to rally her rowdy base--in fact, her SUV had breezed by some Tea Partiers gathered at the club's entrance--but to address the membership of the Long Island Association, the state's largest business... MORE»
What does Chuck Schumer know about Wisconsin? A lot, apparently. Or so he says. New York's senior senator, who rarely misses a chance to play the populist card, has seized on the fiscal crisis in Madison to raise his profile and a few campaign dollars as well. Mr. Schumer recently sent a mass email to supporters condemning Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's attempts to limit collective bargaining rights for public employees. He urged recipients to send checks to the Democratic Party to prevent Mr. Walker from taking "America back to the... MORE»
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