Fresh off his election Tuesday as state GOP chairman, Ed Cox is out this afternoon with a fundraising appeal by email to Republicans across the state. Republicans are hoping Cox will re-energize the Republican Party in New York and boost fundraising. His letter calls on Republicans to seize “an historic… Read More →
Gov. David Paterson continued this afternoon to beat back questions about whether he will run to retain his seat next year, even putting out a warning to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani if Giuliani decides to run against him. He said it’s easy for Giuliani, a Republican, to… Read More →
Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Patterson, Putnam County, introduced a resolution in the Assembly today that would chastise Whoopi Goldberg for saying on ABC television that “I know it wasn’t rape-rape” in reference to movie director Roman Polanski’s conviction several decades ago for raping a teenage girl. Polanski fled to Europe before… Read More →
Nassau County Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs was officially elected this afternoon as state Democratic chairman. He succeeds June O’Neill, who is stepping down to be chairwoman of the executive committee after being tapped for the post when Gov. Eliot Spitzer took office in January 2007. Jacobs has been a strong… Read More →
The state Division of Criminal Justice Services reported this morning that domestic homicides were up by 7.3 percent last year, to 147 cases, while other homicides increased 2.6 percent. Nearly 18 percent of the 830 homicides in New York last year were classified as domestic homicides, meaning they… Read More →
Gov. David Paterson, speaking this morning at a high school in Buffalo before he addresses state Democrats, said he’s not ruling out any spending cuts to the state budget, including potentially cuts to education. “There isn’t anything that we are ruling out in terms of looking at our deficit,” he… Read More →
The state Division of Criminal Justice Services reported this morning that domestic homicides were up by 7.3 percent last year, to 147 cases, while other homicides increased 2.6 percent. Nearly 18 percent of the 830 homicides in New York last year were classified as domestic homicides, meaning they… Read More →
In a recent survey of its members, the Healthcare Association of New York State found that 17 percent of hospitals have eliminated or reduced services as a result of state budget cuts, including cancer treatment and disagnostic care, emergency room expansion and modernization projects, and surgical, adolescent mental health… Read More →
A company looking to install red-light cameras in cities across the state released a poll it commisioned that shows 77 percent of New Yorkers support having the cameras installed at intersections. The Scottsdale, Ariz., company, American Traffic Solutions, hired the polling firm, Public Opinion Strategies, to conduct the poll after… Read More →
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo spent more than four minutes this morning deflecting every question that was thrown at him about whether he’s running for governor. WGRZ in Buffalo has the full clip here. On when he’s going to announce his candidacy for governor: “I plan on doing the best job… Read More →