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Kicking Off NY-6 Democratic Primary Bid, Dr. Robert Mittman Says He’s No "Plant"
Surrounded by friends and family members clutching red apples and American flags, Bayside doctor and Democratic candidate Robert Mittman officially kicked off his campaign for the NY-6 Congressional...
View ArticleInnocence Project, state bar push for justice reforms
Framing their case as a matter of justice for victims and the community at large as well as those accused, the Innocence Project and the state Bar Association held a press conference at the Capitol to...
View ArticleSenate Dems’ sputtering minimum wage push
As my colleague Jimmy earlier reported, the Senate Republican majority is preparing to pass their tax-cut credit package which they say would promote more hiring, especially by small businesses and...
View ArticleVideo: Cuomo [Hearts] NY, DiFiore, his poll numbers
Courtesy Kyle Hughes of NYSNYS, here’s the Q&A that followed the midday rollout of the new tourism campaign. It comes in two chapters, the first dominated by “on-topic” questions regarding the...
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Wow… A Queens GOP Primary?
It may be the most rare of political happenings in Queens: A Republican primary. Our Lisa L. Colangelo reports: But the Queens Republican Party helped set that in motion last week when it announced the...
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Dilan Bashes Velazquez On Israel; She Bashes Back
City Councilman Erik Dilan is working to paint incumbent Rep. Nydia Velazquez as tone-deaf to the needs of Israel. Our Alison Gendar reports: In his push to represent New York's new 7th Congressional...
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End Game: It Wasn’t Him… It Was His Ego
Good evening... The homeless drifter whose face was partially eaten by a real-life Hannibal Lecter turns out to be a brainy 1964 graduate of New York’s elite Stuyvesant High School. (NYDN) President...
View ArticleWestchester executive takes questions in ‘Ask Astorino’ telephone town hall
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino took questions on topics from Glen Island to tax bills to Playland to the housing settlement in a telephone town hall Wednesday night that drew hundreds of...
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Stonewall Dems Endorse Rangel, Meng, Jeffries
Looks like it might've been a good idea for Rep. Charlie Rangel to have gone to that Stonewall Democratic Club event last week: Last night, he picked up the club's endorsement for his re-election bid....
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Watchdogs: Investigate That Fancy (Ed) Towns Car
A watchdog group wants the Federal Election Commission to investigate Rep. Ed Towns after the Daily News and "Inside Edition" reported his wife was tooling around Brooklyn in a car paid for with...
View ArticleHayworth Spokesman: Becker Camp Manufactured Acid Controversy
Rep. Nan Hayworth’s campaign spokesman Bruce Harvie dismissed the uproar over consultant Jay Townsend’s controversial Facebook comments as a controversy “manufactured” by the operation of one of her...
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Maurice Hinchey Backs Dan Lamb As Successor
This may seem like a case of dog-bites-man, but as we've seen elsewhere, having once worked for a Congressman doesn't necessarily mean he's going to endorse you as his replacement. Outgoing Rep....
View ArticleOutrage Over Toll Hike, Congressional Edition
And now, a member of New York’s Congressional delegation is the latest to pile on the state Thruway Authority over a proposed toll hike. Rep. Kathy Hochul, D-Amherst, penned a letter sent to Gov....
View ArticleVIDEO: State Promotes Youth Works Initiative
There are more jobs than young people signed up to fill them through Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Youth Works initiative, which now offers 10,668 positions at participating businesses statewide, Gannett’s...
View ArticleEaton Touts Brooklyn GOP ‘Renaissance’
Brooklyn GOP Chairman Craig Eaton is celebrating Senator-elect David Storobin’s win, deeming it just the latest in a string of “triumphs” for his party, despite the fact that it is located in the most...
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Maurice Hinchey to endorse Dan Lamb for Congress
A retiring congressman from the mid-Hudson Valley will support his longtime aide in the race to succeed him (in a redrawn district that no longer resembles the one he currently represents.) Rep....
View ArticleThis week on ‘New York Now’: Power and beer
Two of the state’s most precious natural resources are in the spotlight in this week’s episode of WMHT’s “New York Now.” Highlights: WMHT’s “Innovation Trail” correspondent Marie Cusick talks to U.S....
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The May jobs numbers were really not good, which is bad for President Obama and good for Mitt Romney. US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s GOP opponents are trying to tie her to the bad economic news. Rep....
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Lew Fidler: I’m "At Peace" With SD-27 Result
After losing a brass-knuckled brawl of a SD-27 election to Republican David Storobin, Democrat Lew Fidler says he has a lot of things to be thankful for -- even if becoming a state Senator isn't one of...
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End Game: Acid Reflux
Good evening... Ex-President Bill Clinton became the latest Democrat to launch a friendly-fire attack on President Obama’s efforts to slam Mitt Romney’s time in the private sector. (NYDN) The U.S....
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