New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
ALBANY - The Paterson administration has put to death one of capital punishment's last vestiges - the execution chamber known as the "death house." The Department of Correctional Services has quietly struck from the books a 40-year-old rule that...
Capitol confidential (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Jen Dlouhy, one of our reporters in the Washington DC bureau, had a look at the financial disclosure forms filed by the candidates in the 20th CD last night. Here is her report: Republican Alexander “Sandy” Treadwell, who is making a high-profile bid to unseat freshman Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., spent $673,701 on his campaign [...]
ALBANYS INSANITY (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Well the session is over and he does not have to campaign so why not… So long Joe. NY Senate leader Bruno to resign seat by Friday - NewsChannel 9 WSYR ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Sen. Joseph Bruno, the chamber’s Republican majority leader since 1995, said Tuesday that he will officially leave office by Friday. He [...]
New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Sen. Joseph Bruno, the chamber's Republican majority leader since 1995, said Tuesday that he will officially leave office by Friday. He surprised most in state government last month when he said he would resign but had not...
the albany project - Front Page (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Governor David Paterson has raised $3.2 million this filing period, a huge amount considering he has been governor for about four months. Bill Mahoney of NYPIRG put together an analysis of how Paterson's figures compare to past figures with Eliot Spitzer and George Pataki. Pataki 1999 $2,938,464.63 Pataki 2000 $2,271,224.71 Pataki 2001 $8,824,483.00 Pataki 2002 $12,944,352.98 Pataki 2003 $2,208,722.48...
Atlantic Yards Report (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The last (for now, at least) major legal obstacle to the Atlantic Yards project moved forward one major step Monday as Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB) and 25 co-plaintiff organizations appealed state Supreme Court Justice Joan Madden's January 11 dismissal of a challenge to the project’s environmental review. (A new eminent domain case is expected to be filed in state court after being
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Want to screw something up badly? Have the government handle it. I hated the Freedom Tower the day they unveiled that unmitigated disaster. It's a bloody nightmare. I signed the Twin Towers alliance petition back in April 2006 (here) and coaxed readers to sign it time and time again. I wrung my hands and wrote this back in 2005 here: There is no telling how long we will be staring into the abyss of...
Little Green Footballs (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
With the current effort mired in politics and bureaucracy, is it time to step back and rethink the Ground Zero rebuilding strategy? Since al-Qaida demolished the World Trade Center nearly seven years ago, New York’s naked emperors—Governors George Pataki and Eliot Spitzer and architect Daniel Libeskind—have viewed an historic rebuilding challenge as an opportunity to invent a square wheel and then...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Problems? They have a few. Here are seven factors that led the Port Authority last week to scrap its timetable for rebuilding Ground Zero - and that may explain why, by 2011, a decade after 9/11, the site could still be a hole in the ground: 1 The...
WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Gov. David Paterson and his new executive director at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Christopher Ward, were praised by followers of the convoluted planning process for finally getting real about Ground Zero, throwing out every deadline and giving more than a dozen examples of how the government-run project has been mismanaged.
http://riveraveblues.com/feed (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
As spiraling construction costs and a weak economy have sent the price tag on the new Yankee Stadium soaring, the Yankees have been seeking some $350 million in tax exempt bonds beyond what they’ve already secured for the stadium. New York State politicians, however, are growing increasingly leery of the richest sports franchise’s continual cries [...]
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
We need the Twin Towers back.
BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Back in 2000, Democratic strategist and political writer Cliff Schecter contributed $20 to the presidential campaign of Arizona Republican Senator John McCain. An admirer of McCain's independent streak then in opposing Republican orthodoxy on supply-side tax cuts and overturning Roe v Wade, Schecter admitted, "I trusted him." Eight years and seemingly endless McCain flip-flops later, Cliff Schecter...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The finger-pointing over construction delays at Ground Zero was in high gear yesterday after the Port Authority's decision to scrap its latest timetable for the beleaguered project. The chief target for blame is ex-Gov. George Pataki, who led the...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Until the end of last month, Governor David Paterson had little connection in the public’s mind with the World Trade Center site. Unlike his predecessor, Eliot Spitzer, he did not loudly spout off in a campaign about mismanagement downtown; and unlike former Governor George Pataki, he was not involved in the planning process that led to the design for the site. But all that changed June 30, when Mr....
