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Senate split: Midnight order brings it 'home' to Nassau
Spin CycleIn getting state Supreme Court Justice Ute Wolff Lally to issue a middle-of-the-night order barring Richard Ravitch from taking office as lieutenant governor, the Senate Republicans brought the venue back home to GOP Leader Dean Skelos' roots in Nassau......Tags: Justice System, Upper House, Republican Party, National Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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NY comedown: Now it's Mike, Hill veep talk
Spin CycleWhat a comedown! Once, it was going to be Clinton vs. Giuliani vs. Bloomberg for the presidency. Now, it's speculation about whether Clinton and Bloomberg will get the consolation prize. A source "close to" Bloomberg, speaking to NYMag, maintains......Tags: Political Candidates, Republican Party, Florida, Politics, Elections
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Can NY Dems mesh Obamites with Clintonistas?
Spin CyclePeople who run political parties are famously wary of newcomers who show up to take part but not to take orders. So at least some of Barack Obama???s earliest New York supporters on Friday will carry pride laced with......Tags: Merrick, Manhattan (New York City), Barack Obama, Bellmore, Politics
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Cuomo: Insatiable ambition vs. Paterson = Mayor?
Spin CycleWhat happens when a politician with an insatiable ambition to be important (A. Cuomo) faces an immovable obstacle to becoming governor because he primaried a black Democrat (McCall) once and he doesn't dare do it again (Paterson)? Answer: He......Tags: Politics, Local Elections, Elections, Regional Authority
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Working Families endorses Hooper's rival
Spin CycleAs partners in the Democrats??? drive to take the state Senate, the state Working Families Party has endorsed on Long Island Democrats Brian Foley, Kristen McElroy and Sen. Craig Johnson. In the Assembly, the party included five Republicans among its........Tags: Politics, Government, Sam Hoyt, Malcolm Smith, William T Stachowski
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Siena: Yes on property tax cap
Spin CycleNew Yorkers overwhelmingly reject the arguments offered by teachers' unions and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver against a property tax cap, according to today's Siena poll. Support for the cap is 74-15 percent statewide, including at least 71 percent in...Tags: Political Candidates, Politics, Elections, State Budgets, Property Tax
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Property taxes: The Bruno charade
Spin CycleWe've taken a couple of shots at Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for pretty much serving as a hired hand of the teachers' unions in his opposition to a cap on property tax increases. But in today's Daily News, Bill......Tags: Politics, Long Island, State Budgets, Property Tax
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Albany: Foreclosure bill
Spin CyclePaterson and the legislature have agreed on a bill to address the sub-prime crisis. Key provisions: 90-day notice before foreclosure proceedings are instituted, and a mandatory settlement conference requiring face-to-face meeting with homeowner and...Tags: Interior Policy, Real Estate Buyers, Upper House, Corporate Crime, Manhattan (New York City)
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Report: Bruno may back property cap
Spin CycleThe New York Sun reports that, in the wake of a poll showing that 74 percent of New Yorkers want a property tax cap, Senate GOP Majority Leader Joe Bruno may be ready to join Gov. Paterson in backing......Tags: Upper House, Republican Party, Political Candidates, National Government, Politics
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Skelos: Of three in a room, the odd man out
Spin CycleSen. Dean Skelos??? ascent will make him the sole suburbanite and the only Republican among the three men who run New York government. In this way, the 60-year-old majority leader from Rockville Centre instantly becomes the odd man out......Tags: Republican Party, David A. Paterson, Joseph Bruno, Eliot Spitzer
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Property-tax cap: More movement, sans Silver
Spin CycleMore reports this morning of Joe Bruno "warming" to property-tax cap legislation supported by Paterson and, according to polls, most voters. For him and his conference, it seems to be just a good issue to be on the taxpayers'...... -
For names on Capitol doors, it's still 'meet the old boss'
Spin CycleThe Skelos era began in the State Senate last Tuesday night when Rockville Centre???s native son, Dean Skelos, accepted the reins of majority leadership from the departing Joseph Bruno of upstate Brunswick. But Bruno???s name remains on doors to......Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland), David A. Paterson, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Executive Branch
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