Our data team of Frank Brill and Cathey O’Donnell has created databases showing which pork barrel projects the state’s senators and assembly members brought home. (Did we say pork? We meant member items meant to serve the needs of their constituents… right?)

Here’s a link to both…

(They are on the same page—Senate first and Assembly below [...]

(AP) — Voter excitement, always up before a presidential election, is pushing registration through the roof so far this year — with more than 3.5 million people rushing to join in the historic balloting, according to an Associated Press survey that offers the first national snapshot.

Figures are up for blacks, women and young people. Rural [...]

Dying for the details on the Local Government Efficiency & Competitiveness Commission’s report? The governor’s office has just announced it will stream today’s press conference live on the web here starting at 11:30 a.m.

Mike Easley, the governor of North Carolina, endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton today in the state’s upcoming presidential primary.According to the AP, “the two-term Democrat declared the New York senator “gets it.’” “It’s time for somebody to be in the White House who understands the challenges we face in this country,” Easley said.  ”There’s been lots of [...]

You’d need to have a certain type of Mom to celebrate this way: With Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, at a pre-Mother’s Day fundraiser in New York City…. Tickets are $100 a head, or $1,000 a head for “premium seating,” depending on how you feel about your Mom (and the Clintons).

Running for school board or know someone who is? Alert them to  the following note from our Editorial Board: Candidates in contested school board races in the May 20 election are invited to discuss the issues and their campaigns in endorsement interviews with The Journal News Editorial Board. As in the past, these discussions will form [...]

Tomorrow, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile will be dissecting the Pennsylvania presidential primary results and other political topics during an appearance at Westchester  Community College. The event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the college’s Black Student Union; it will kick off at 10 a.m. in Room 200 of the Classroom Building on [...]

Reporter Aman Ali sends in this dispatch:

Gary Stracuzzi, Rye Town’s Democratic chair, called supervisor Joseph Carvin a “hypocrite” this week over the town’s use of no-bid hires. Stracuzzi has objected several times in past board meeetings to Carvin’s no-bid hiring of Ann Marie Berg, who was hired to investigate the previous administration’s contracting practices. Her [...]

A new Quinnipiac poll of New York voters out today says it’s the economy that’s driving voters’ choices. Just 21 percent of voters say New York State’s economy is “excellent” or “good,” while 78 percent say the economy is “not so good” or “poor.”

Some 44 percent of those surveyed called it the most important [...]

Forget what a presidential debate looks like? Maybe it’s because there hasn’t been one in a couple of months.

But never fear—Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will face off tonight, less than a week before the Pennsylvania primary, at a debate in Philadelphia. “The debate, to be held at the National Constitution Center, is being telecast [...]