The death of Percy Sutton marks the passing of a pioneering era in New York. Maybe that’s a good thing.

He came back to Albany to find everything changed. Not in a good way.

An anti-labor party.

Bill Thompson’s (relatively) gentlemanly approach to his against-the-odds campaign is its own strategy.

There is Michael Bloomberg, and there is everybody else. Here's everybody else.

Can the ambitious attorney general convince the feckless governor to give up the game?

Six strategies for how this year’s Democratic underdog for mayor could, just possibly, pull off an upset over Mike Bloomberg this fall.

When David Paterson asked him to step in as lieutenant governor, he couldn’t say no.

Volunteering for Bloomberg.

Two years ago, national gay activists hatched a plan to turn the State Senate Democratic. Thus began the Albany ring cycle …