Our good friend Mayor Ed Koch has spent the past few months traveling the state, encouraging New Yorkers to “Throw the bums out!” Well, on Primary Day we got the message and threw out Pedro Espada, the worst offender in Albany when it comes to greed and arrogance.
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Al D'Amato
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9/24/10
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Gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo, the current Democratic state attorney general, recently swung by the Jewel Quinn Senior Center in North Merrick to tout a 2 percent property-tax cap for all municipalities and school districts in New York.
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8/5/10
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New York State Attorney General and gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, stopped off at the Jewel Quinn Senior Center in North Merrick on July 27 with Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, a Republican, to tout a statewide property-tax cap.
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Sari Zeidler
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7/27/10
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At the beginning of the year, Republicans from Washington to the far-off hustings were toasting the coming November election with predictions of a mass wipeout of incumbent Democrats.
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Jerry Kremer
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6/14/10
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U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy is saying that the federal government will be right on Cuomo’s heels when it comes to curbing dangerous behavior on the part of companies that work in the mortgage and foreclosure markets.
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Matthew Hampton
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4/7/10
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Though the state’s struggle to close its huge budget gap is dominating the headlines, another economy-related issue is likely to loom large in the near future: foreclosures.
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Matthew Hampton
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3/31/10
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The New York Times nailed Gov. David Paterson last week in an alleged abuse-of-power case, so much so that he was forced to drop out of the 2010 gubernatorial race. Yet there was Paterson, in typical fashion, denying culpability.
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Scott Brinton
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3/10/10
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Rumors have been swirling around Mineola recently that District Attorney Kathleen Rice is gearing up for a statewide run next year if Attorney General Andrew Cuomo leaves office and runs for, say, the governorship. Meanwhile, Rice is totally focused on her re-election this year, so don’t expect to hear a word otherwise.
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Spencer Rumsey
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10/6/09
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