David A. Paterson

New York has long reach when it comes to regulation. By all accounts, the state???s Insurance Department under superintendent Eric Dinallo (left) has been involved in helping broker a solution to a financial crisis for the most populous county......

The presidential debate on Wednesday will be the first in New York State since Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy met in a television studio in 1960. That setting 48 years ago didn???t allow for many people, beside journalists,......

Gov. Paterson takes credit for saving drivers a half-billion dollars by jawboning insurers into reducing rate hikes in light of the reduced driving triggered by high gas prices, Release after the jump.......

Rekindling memories of Texas legislator Kirk Watson, who froze like a deer in the headlights last spring when Hardball's Chris Matthews challenged him to come up with some of Obama's accomplishments, Gov. Paterson had similar problems tonight with the.......

Albany bureau chief JT Madore provides this update on the politics surrounding Paterson top aide Charles O'Byrne's failure to pay his state and federal taxes for five years: Observers of state government can be forgiven for feeling like they???re......

Getting the backing of a big teachers' union is a mixed blessing -- it means you get money and troops, but it also means you've kissed the ring of people who won't let you do a thing to help......

For those who have been following it: Paterson announces today that Delaware North gets the deal to operate Video Lottery Terminals at Aqueduct. Two releases after the jump.......

Crafting a creative excuse for his failure to file tax returns for many years, Gov. David A. Paterson's chief of staff, Charles O'Bryne, on Wednesday offered the pseudo-psychiatric term "non-filer syndrome," the purported result of a mental depression...

Here's the letter of resignation Gov. Paterson's top aide, Charles O'Byrne, submitted today: Dear Governor Paterson: I hereby tender my resignation today as Secretary to the Governor of New York. New York faces exceedingly difficult challenges in the time...

Earlier this month, Gov. David A. Paterson signed a sweeping package of pension-reform bills into law that will make it more difficult for recipients of public pensions to also draw public salaries. But at least one double-dipper, Nassau District......

Maybe the Garden City law firm Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein can start sharing office space with the New York State executive branch. The resignation of Charles O???Byrne as Gov. David A. Paterson???s top gatekeeper on Friday made William......

With apologies to the folks at Law & Order: In the New York political system, there are two distinct but equally named Bill Cunninghams: One who used to be in public service -- and one who still is. These......