Several staff changes today in the Paterson administration. Paterson announced that Insurance Department Superintendent Eric Dinallo will resign in July to become a visiting professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Dinallo came in with the Spitzer administration and worked with Spitzer in the attorney general’s… Read More →
Former state Comptroller Carl McCall said he endorsed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand today because “I’ve known her for a long time and I’ve admired her for a long time.” With her potential Democratic primary foes dropping off, McCall said in an interview that his endorsement today comes because “She has some… Read More →
How dysfunctional and combative is the Senate? “You couldn’t get two-thirds of them to agree on what was even if there was only one clock in the room,’’ E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center, a conservative think tank, opined today on Talk-1300 radio in Albany this morning. Republicans and Democrats… Read More →
June is normally the time when thoughts of many people turn to proms, the end of school, summer vacations, pennant races and barbeques. But this year, New Yorkers may have to focus on their wallets a little more than usual. A host of new taxes passed as part of the… Read More →
The Senate’s traveling ethics-reform show hit New York City today with a public hearing on four proposed bills that would strengthen ethics laws. There will be a public hearing in Buffalo tomorrow and Albany on Tuesday. The bills would: — Lower the amount of money lobbyists and firs that… Read More →
Senate Republicans are keeping up the pressure on Senate Democrats over their approval of new drug laws that, starting June 8, will allow judges to seal the records of drug offenders from potential employers. Republicans put out this montage of Republicans senators ripping the changes during the floor debate on… Read More →
The National Organization for Marriage is out today with the first television ad opposing attempts to legalize same-sex marriage in New York. The group, led by Ossining’s Maggie Gallagher, said it is spending $100,000 on the ad, which will run in the Long Island, Albany, Poughkeepsie, Watertown, and Newburgh areas…. Read More →