Document Drop: NY Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky Assails Nazi Imagery At Albany Gun...
The head of the NYS Rifle and Pistol Association is getting an earful from state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky over Nazi imagery -- including what she assails as "offensive and disgraceful" portrayals of...
View ArticleDocument Drop: The Sequestration Order
No #JediMindMeld, no deal... Just a sequestration order signed by President Obama and released by the White House this evening, followed by the Office of Management and Budget report. 2013...
View ArticleDocument Drop: The IBO On Bloomberg's Budget
And speaking of budgets, here's the testimony of NYC Independent Budget Office Director Ronnie Lowenstein on Mayor Bloomberg's $70 billion preliminary FY 2014 spending plan as prepared for delivery to...
View ArticleDocument Drop: Council To DOT: Investigate Sites Of Deadly Glauber,...
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and her colleagues are calling on the city DOT to analyze traffic safety at the Brooklyn intersection where what they call a "horrifically tragic accident" last...
View ArticleDocument Drop: NYC Soda Ban Struck Down
As our Erin Durkin noted earlier, "A judge has invalidated Mayor Bloomberg's controversial plan to ban large sugary drinks from restaurants and other eateries, one day before the new law was to take...
View ArticleDocument Drop Plus: More Highlights From Today's NYC 2013 Campaign Finance...
The runup to the deadline for NYC Campaign Finance Board filings is always a hectic time for candidates and political junkies both -- to say nothing of the scramble to comb the records after everyone...
View ArticleDocument Drop: NYC Business Groups Push Gale Brewer -- Again -- On Paid Sick...
No way an issue as hot as paid sick leave would be quarantined to the mayor's race alone. The heads of the city's Chambers of Commerce penned the below letter to Gale Brewer, a city councilwoman who's...
View ArticleDocument Drop: NYSRPA Fights New Gun Regs
The NYS Rifle and Pistol Association is suing Gov. Cuomo, state AG Eric Schneiderman and the State Police over the recently enacted NY SAFE gun control regs. "NYSRPA believes SAFE violates the...
View ArticleDocument Drop: JCOPE 2012 Roundup
Some quick proof that JCOPE has a life beyond the Vito Lopez scandal: Here's the commission's 2012 annual report. The doc shows total 2012 lobbying spending at $205 million, down 7% from 2011. In...
View ArticleDocument Drop: NYC Elections Board Could've Saved More Than $2M On...
No joke -- at least a dozen pollsites in the November, 2011 NYC vote had more Board of Elections workers than voters, says a scathing new Department of Investigation report which estimates the...
View ArticleDocument Drop: The Case Against Malcolm Smith
We have a story up here for you right now on the developing tale of a web of federal accusations that GOP officials including City Councilman Dan Halloran, Bronx County GOP Chairman and operative...
View ArticleDocument Drop: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's Email To His Conference
For the third item of my "Albany Insider" column yesterday, I wrote about an email Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver sent to his Democratic members in the wake of the latest corruption scandals at the...
View ArticleDocument Drop: Who's Chairman #1 ?
Brooklyn Republican state Sen. Martin Golden wants an ID on Chairman #1 -- and says the mystery man should quit if he hasn't already. Golden poses the question in a letter to U.S. Attorney Preet...
View ArticleDocument Drop: Props For Brooklyn GOP Boss
Republican Brooklyn state Sen. Martin Golden is using mayor's race machinations to try to force out county GOP Chairman Craig Eaton, a supporter wrote in a letter today -- and risks alienating the...
View ArticleDocument Drop: GOP Chairs V. Martin Golden
Three of the city's GOP chairman are going after state Sen. Martin Golden for targeting Brooklyn party boss Craig Eaton, calling it an outrageous power play. The letter is the third installment in a...
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