Newly minted Congressional candidate Greg Ball, a Republican from Patterson, has a campaign fundraising conundrum.

He is soliciting contributions for his challenge to U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, on the same website he has used to raise money for his state Assembly campaign.

A click on contributions at Ball’s ball4ny website, which bears the slogan “Your [...]

So, according to a U.S. Postal Service receipt, the treasurer for Republican state Assemblyman Greg Ball’s Congressional challenge of U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, mailed Ball’s statement of candidacy to the Federal Election Commission by express mail on May 6.

Ball treasurer Maria DiSalvo, a Patterson horsefarm owner, reportedly got confirmation of delivery of Ball’s [...]

Ball4NY Congressional Exploratory Committee spokesman Christopher Arnold says soon-to-be-announced Republican Congressional challenger Greg Ball submitted his Federal Election Commission forms on May 1.

But the paperwork for the presumed Republican opponent to U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, is nowhere to be seen, according to Julia Queen, an FEC spokeswoman.

“We do not have a report,” Queen [...]

An amendment backed by Senators John Kerry, D-Mass., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, that would protect renters from being thrown out of their homes after a foreclosure, passed the Senate today as part of the larger housing bill, the Help Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009.

The Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act ensures that tenants and [...]

The nine-member Putnam County Legislature has unanimously voted to override County Executive Robert Bondi’s veto of additional funding for a popular septic repair program for homeowners.

The legislature wants to spend an additional $2 million in watershed funds designated for protecting the drinking water of 9 million people. Bondi vetoed the measure saying it constituted a [...]

Assemblywoman Sandra Galef, D-Ossining, has launched a Shared Services Task Force made up of residents of the 90th Assembly District who will look for ways to cut costs by streamlining and possibly consolidating functions, departments, and purchasing in government entities and school districts.

Members of the task force include local taxpayer watchdog groups, statewide property tax [...]

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, said more than 200,000 single parents across the state could be forced to pay a financial penalty just for receiving child support.

So Gillibrand has introduced legislation to eliminate the penalty which is a remnant of the Deficit Reduction Act, passed by the Republican Congress and signed into law by President [...]

The number of young voters nationwide rose for the third time in as many presidential election cycles, according to a new analysis by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.

Voters under 30 who voted in 2008 increased by about 11 percent, while the number of older voters increased by 3 [...]

Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Patterson, said today he’ll make an announcement May 9 on whether he will seek the Congressional seat currently held by U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains.

What Ball won’t say is how his fundraising is going.

Ball didn’t file a report with the Federal Election Committee in time to meet its April 15 deadline. [...]

The National Republican Congressional Committee has launched a new offensive of robocalls targeting U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains.

The blitz, which began this week, charges Hall with “endorsing a reckless spending spree in Washington.”

Here’s part of the script urging calls to Hall’s office although Congress is on recess.

Hello I’m calling from the National Republican [...]