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New York's stable credit rating could be hurt if the Legislature fails to heed Gov. David Paterson's calls to cut spending and eliminate a $3.2 billion deficit, Moody's Investors Service said Friday.
New York lawmakers headed home Thursday without agreement on how to address the state's fiscal crisis.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, encouraged by many Republicans to run for governor in 2010, is instead leaning toward a run for U.S. Senate, according to two party advisers.
With New York drowning in deepening deficit spending and running out of cash to pay huge bills due next month, the Legislature met in special session Tuesday and put off what Gov. David Paterson called the "tough decisions to save our state."
Gov. David Paterson on Monday urged lawmakers to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, calling it "an issue that touches on the very core of our citizenship."
A good-government group is calling for an ethics investigation into how New York Gov. David Paterson got his Yankees tickets for the first game of the World Series.
A deepening deficit has New York officials looking again at how to collect unpaid taxes on cigarettes sold by Indian tribes to non-Indians.
David Paterson thrived politically as a state senator, working his way up in a nearly all-white Albany political structure.
New York's economic slump continues, with the state's 100 wealthiest taxpayers so far reporting half the earnings of a year ago and sales tax revenues dropping by a historic amount, a state budget report released Thursday shows.
New York's Senate stalemate ended Thursday as it started 31 days ago, with a freshman Democrat convulsing the 62-seat house by switching sides and getting a powerful leadership post in the majority.
It should have been clear when state Democratic senators resorted to flicking off the chamber lights to try to thwart a shocking Republican power grab that this wouldn't be the brightest moment in New York politics.
Evenly split political factions turned the New York Senate Tuesday into a two-ring legislative circus of sharp words, laughter and jeers, including a derisive "Duh," where Republicans and Democrats dueling for control held simultaneous sessions in the ornate chamber.
A judge says he won't rule on last week's takeover of the New York Senate by a coalition of Republicans and dissident Democrats.
Republicans and two dissident Democrats took control of New York's Senate on Monday after the two New York City renegades voted with the GOP to throw the fledgling Democratic majority out of power.
A state Assembly committee investigating what it claims is massive overcharging on electricity bills is now seeking evidence of conflicts of interests and collusion among New York power producers.
New York's Republican Party says the Democrat-controlled state government is ignoring calls for an investigation into a $100,000 donation to the state Democratic Party from American International Group days before officials initiated the bailout of the insurance giant.
New York Gov. David Paterson took office one year ago with an emphatic introduction and was immediately hailed as a healer — practically a savior — who would erase the memory of Eliot Spitzer's shocking resignation amid a prostitution scandal.
The head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee has approached former New York Gov. George Pataki about running for the U.S. Senate in 2010, according to a person who spoke to Pataki about the private meeting.
New York Republicans are completely out of power for the first time in four decades. Democrats rule the executive and legislative branches and hold 26 of the state's 29 congressional seats.
Gov. David Paterson's revelation that he is responsible for a campaign staffer who leaked unproven personal accusations about Caroline Kennedy after she withdrew from Senate consideration could lead to a state privacy investigation, experts said Wednesday.
Kirsten Gillibrand, a little-known, pro-gun Democrat from upstate New York, was sworn in Tuesday as the state's junior U.S. senator.
The leader in polls to become New York's next U.S. senator has enjoyed the enviable political position of never saying he sought the job, avoiding a potential defeat. But legal experts question the claim of privilege that Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and Gov. David Paterson have used repeatedly to refuse to tell New Yorkers if Cuomo wants the job.
Republicans in New York's Legislature are pushing for a special election to fill the expected vacancy in the U.S. Senate instead of allowing Democratic Gov. David Paterson to make a unilateral appointment through a secretive process.
Yankees president Randy Levine asserted repeatedly at a combative hearing Wednesday that the team's new $1.5 billion stadium — backed by hundreds of millions of dollars in public subsidies — is a good deal for the city, and accused a lawmaker who offered to fight him of grandstanding for headlines.
Media buzz and a new poll make the selection of New York's next U.S. senator look like a race between Democratic titans named Cuomo and Kennedy, but the one New Yorker who will make the decision disagrees.
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