Gov. Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg want to tax soda to fight obesity and, more notably, help plug the state’s $9 billion gap. But here’s a better way to raise cash: tax...
Want to know what’s in store for neighborhoods near Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, now that federal eco-crats have dropped a giant tarp over the gunky waterway? Ask the folks trying to...
In the race to replace Gov. Paterson ap pointee Kirsten Gillibrand, New York's (uber-) junior US senator, new names seem to surface daily. The latest: former state banking...
NASA is looking for new homes for three soon-to-be-decommissioned space shuttles. It would be crazy not to put one in New York. The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum has...
State lawmakers, take note: Budgets can be balanced without raising taxes or borrowing billions. For proof, look at two recently elected suburban county executives, who...
So, why did Andrew Cuomo blink? The attorney general yesterday backed off a probe of possible crimi nal conduct on the part of Gov. Paterson, handing the task to former Court...
Gov. Paterson yesterday finally pulled the plug on Aqueduct Entertainment Group's lucrative contract to build the city's first racino. What took so long? Paterson based his...
Mayor Bloomberg has a lot of nerve criticizing Lt. Gov. Richard Ra vitch's plan to pile up more debt to deal with the state's fiscal crisis. "I think that doesn't pass the...
Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch is a smart guy, experienced and steeped in the ar cana of municipal finance. This makes the borrow-and-spend budget plan he presented in Albany yesterday...
Timing, former Canadian Prime Minis ter Pierre Trudeau used to say, is the essential ingredient of politics. If so, then the Israeli government committed a boneheaded move...
The Indian Point nuclear power plant is safe. So says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which noted that the facility last year "operated in a manner that preserved public...
Don't blame Greece for its financial woes, Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday after meeting with President Obama. Blame "speculators." Which got us wondering:...
Looks like the wheels are falling off the Aqueduct racino proposal. Queens power broker Rev. Floyd Flake yesterday walked away from the deal. Then Gov. Paterson did likewise...
Just last week, Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks said he couldn't wait to sit down for a TV interview to address all allegations raised by a series of Post articles about his supposedly...
It will be several more days before the official results of Iraq's second national parliamentary elections are known -- which, in itself, is a sign of remarkable political...
Further evidence that the progress in Iraq is real came from a most unlikely direction Sunday -- from Hollywood. Not one, but three golden statues at Sunday's Academy Awards...
Here's something you don't see every day: A New York elected official taking on a public-employee union that's bleeding his constituents dry. So, all the better that the...
Last week, Brooklyn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis effectively ordered the immediate dismantlement of New York's system of privately run, but state-licensed, group homes for the...
You could almost see the pitchforks and torches last week at those public hearings on the service cuts the MTA is planning to close a $750 million operating deficit. Wednesday...
It’s amazing what a mass of pink slips can do to make a teachers union see the light — especially when the layoffs are publicly hailed by the president of the United States. On...
Former New York Chief Judge Judith Kaye has become the “go to” lawyer these days for dubious outfits that find themselves in hot water. The shady Working Families Party hired...
Give David Paterson more time: That's what several top Democrats and a number of African-American leaders are insisting -- even as calls for the scandal-scarred governor to quit...
To paraphrase an old saying, everybody talks about the festering political cor ruption in Albany, but no one does anything about it. Now along comes former Mayor Ed Koch, to...
Former Gov. Hugh Carey may have left office more than a quarter-century ago, but he is well remembered by those who endured New York's fiscal crisis of the '70s and how he saved...
OK -- what's so terrible about a gover nor taking free baseball tickets? Hell, what's the point of being gov ernor if you can't get comped to a ball game -- even a World...
President Obama's allegedly reform- minded Department of Education of fered New York as much as $700 million in bonus school aid -- provided Albany adopted some key...
New York's Bravest honored a fallen Marine this week, bestowing the title of honorary firefighter on Sgt. Christopher Hrbek. Hrbek, who was killed in Afghanistan's Helmand...
So now it's perjury? The state Commission on Public Integrity yesterday charged Gov. Paterson with illegally snaring free World Series Yankee tickets last year -- as Post...
Charlie Rangel yesterday was granted a face-saving "leave of absence" as House Ways and Means Committee chairman, pending the outcome of multiple ethics investigations. A...
One more big fish down. One even bigger fish to go. Harry Corbitt, Gov. Paterson's hand-picked State Police superintendent, quit last night, following key Paterson aide...
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