Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland)

Missing from last week???s string of endorsements in State Senate races by Rochester billionaire Thomas Golisano were two prominent Long Islanders ??? Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) and Sen. Owen Johnson (R-West Babylon). James T....

A NY League of Conservation Voters board member, vice chairman John Cameron of Rockville Center, has resigned over the group's decision to provide massive financial backing to Democratic Brookhaven Supervisor Brian Foley in his campaign to wrest a state.....

We may be tempted to write Tropical Storm Hanna off as a 'fizzle.' But for many Marylanders, yesterday's tropical storm delivered a formidible punch in the form of heavy rain and high winds.Portions of Montgomery and Frederick counties reported well over....

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's starring role in St. Paul as the VP candidate led Jack Irwin of East Rockaway, representing "Irish for McCain," to remember 1952, when he was expecting to be sent to Korea, but then drew the cryptic......

Melissa Mansfield of the Albany bureau reports that Speaker Sheldon Silver, sated after draining the life from two primary challenges last night, said today he has no hard feelings against Gov. Paterson for calling legislators "bloodsuckers" and comparing...

Madore in Albany files this update on Senate Democratic Minority Leader Malcolm Smith's call for a special session to deal with the Wall Street crisis: The state legislative chiefs have responded to Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith???s call to...

James Madore in Albany reports: State Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith called Tuesday for the Legislature to reconvene in a special session to tackle the crisis on Wall Street. Smith (D-Queens) asked Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville...

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) has long been the state lawmaker most involved with the Long Island Rail Road, with cordial union ties and a hand in its capital funding. Asked Thursday about state and U.S. probes......

Slated to appear in Saturday's Newsday: Nassau Senate rivals Craig Johnson and Barbara Donno agreed in a debate taped Friday that state spending on schools and health care should be shielded from cuts. But they clashed on who???d be more......

When the subject is whether the Dems will cut school aid, the squabble helps the GOP in the suburbs, and doesn't particularly help Craig Johnson or Brian Foley. That's the bottom line, as we see it, on today's dispatch......

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......