Gov. David Paterson announced today that he signed two bills aimed at reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS. The first will allow patients to agree to HIV testing in a general consent form that stays in effect until it expires or consent is revoked, and it will require health-care providers to… Read More →
Gov. David Paterson today rejected the Legislature’s compromise proposal on a plan that would grant new powers to New York’s public colleges. Paterson spokesman Morgan Hook said in a statement that “more needs to be done and more details need to provided” before the governor can sign off on the… Read More →
Attorney James E. Johnson, the court-appointed monitor in Westchester’s fair housing/False Claims Act case, will appear in an Editorial Spotlight interview 11 a.m. Wednesday on LoHud.com. Over the next seven years, Westchester must build 750 units of affordable housing, most of them in overwhelmingly white communities that have long shunned… Read More →
Republican comptroller candidate Harry Wilson took some swings at Democratic Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli over whether DiNapoli—who Wilson has labeled “Albany Tom”—supports a property-tax cap. Wilson went so far as to point out that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo and Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio support tax caps. So does Gov…. Read More →
There will no gubernatorial run for Steve Levy this year, officially. The Suffolk County executive who lost the Republican nomination for governor at the GOP convention in June, said in a statement today he will forgo a run as an independent candidate. He’s also endorsing Rick Lazio, the fellow Long… Read More →
These are some of the comments Women4Ball made this week in support of Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Patterson, in his Senate campaign. Ball is running against Somers Supervisor Mary Beth Murphy, the endorsed Republican, and Westchester County Legislator Michael Kaplowitz, D-Somers. The women accused the Senate Republican Campaign Committee, which supports… Read More →
Democrats have a new video out today on Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio’s $1.3 million bonus from JP Morgan. Lazio, meanwhile, continues to press Democratic rival Andrew Cuomo on investigating the Muslim community center planned two blocks away from the World Trade Center site. In a video posted on GOP… Read More →
The war of words heated up today between Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Patterson, and his supporters and the Senate Republican Campaign Committee. The committee is backing Somers Supervisor Mary Beth Murphy in the race for the seat, which is being vacated by Sen. Vincent Leibell, R-Patterson. One of Ball’s ex-girlfriends and a… Read More →
If the Legislature accomplished anything today and Wednesday, it was exposing new fissures in the Senate Democrats. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, and Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson, D-Brooklyn, emerged from a close-door meeting this afternoon to announce they had a “framework” in place to pass the higher-education bill that… Read More →
Ed Cox, the chairman of the state Republican Party, this afternoon weighed in on the session of the Legislature that produced no results, a feet that he called an “abomination.” “This session’s entire budget process and the conduct of Democrat legislators in complete control of the proceedings have been an… Read More →
