Mario Cuomo Helped Investment Firm Being Probed by Son Andrew
The State Attorney General can’t be pleased his dad is hooking up a firm that he suspects is getting too much help from politicians.
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The State Attorney General can’t be pleased his dad is hooking up a firm that he suspects is getting too much help from politicians.
Public-school funding is safe so far, according to Paterson, but big cuts in discretionary funding, local government aid, and health care are on the horizon.
The assembly speaker is once again aiming for a "millionaire's tax," which the governor dismisses — arguing that taxes are "addictive."
The speech served as a Bat signal to stir powerful New Yorkers who can put the governor's urgent message into play.
New York legislators and special-interest groups are already gearing up for a battle.
As predicted, the governor's televised address had more warnings than it did solutions.
In an hour the governor of New York will make his television address about the financial crisis facing the state. Will it be enough to change Albany? And will it be enough to change him into a new kind of governor?
The former State Senate Majority Leader will be the CEO of an information technology firm — which, of course, has contracts with the state government.
The lovable gov wanted to offer the former GOP Senate majority leader an advisory post in his government.
At yesterday's Gay Pride March, the governor receives a hero's welcome.
His replacement, Nassau County's Dean Skelos, was voted in today. But we also learn of the behind-closed-doors negotiations that went into his decision to depart.
"It's over, we win!" cry Democrats, before the 2008 state election season has even begun.
Bruno and Albany Republicans are protesting Paterson's command that state agencies recognize out-of-state gay marriages, claiming it circumvents the Legislature. But didn't Bruno already decline a chance for the State Senate to vote on the issue?
Turns out the judge isn't going to take the job!
Our new governor only gave $150 to charity last year, even though he and his wife made $269,000 combined.
By declining to vote on Bloomberg's congestion-pricing plan, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver seemed to once again fulfill his role the state government's resident stick-in-the-mud.
As Paterson's personal scandals ebb into the past, he hires a flashy young communications manager to move into the future — at $175,000 a year.
One of Mayor Bloomberg's great big plans for changing the city just got a huge boost from the City Council. What he's probably thinking.
State officials find fantasies about the new governor's having boinked pretty much every woman he has ever come into contact with distracting.
By now, four days into Governor David Paterson's reign, one thing is clear: He never thought he was actually going to be governor. The loosey-goosey (and juicy!) way he's blended his personal and professional affairs don't reflect the kind of care and caution that most people who expect close scrutiny would have used. If this goes on, will Joe Bruno use it to his advantage?