Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland)

State Sen. Dean Skelos and Assemb. James Tedisco, the Republican minority leaders in the State Legislature, emerged Wednesday from a meeting with Gov. David A. Paterson to say both houses will pass their own budget plans next week. Once that???s......

Now, with a question mark hovering over the state Senate on an MTA financing plan, the frustrated Minority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) takes a whack at the ambiguously directed Majority Leader Malcolm Smith (D-Queens). The plan also includes.....

Possible US Senate candidate Peter King (R-Seaford) has his name on local earmarks which Sen. John McCain, the failed presidential candidate King supported, has been slamming. The two don't agree on this budgeting measure or campaign finance, King says....

Nassau lawmakers, who made the rounds in Albany yesterday, are fairly confident the county will receive state approval to impose a new tax on cigarettes and a surcharge on traffic tickets. But they say Rochester Assemb. David Gantt (in......

Gov. David Paterson and his wife, Michelle, at the White House in January. (AFP / Getty Images Photo) State Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos rejected the suggestion on Thursday that lawmakers accept a pay cut because of the recession.......

After a pretty lackluster season, America’s Next Top Model came roaring back last night with a fresh crop of beauties vying to stand atop the catwalk.Last night’s two-hour show was a series of cuts. The top 34 girls in the......

Gov. David A. Paterson took a swipe last week at Long Islanders who blasted his recommendation that the first stimulus cash go to transportation projects upstate. Last month, he forwarded about a dozen projects to Washington for $41 million......

Just call him Assembly Speaker Sheldon Survivor. He could turn out to be the last pol standing in all New York State. As governor, Eliot Spitzer tried to threaten him but, of course, Spitzer is now gone. As Senate......

Nine years ago, in collaboration with state officials, the mighty investment company Bear Stearns played a special role in shaping the course on which the region???s transit system now finds itself. Not only did this financial titan advise the......

State Senate Republicans may throw a wrench in Democrats??? plans to quickly pass a new state budget before the April 1 start of the fiscal year. Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) said Monday night that Republicans would......

Gov. Paterson is siding with the Catholic church on an Assembly bill sponsored by Margaret Markey of Queens (center in photo) that would allow a one-year suspension of the statute of limitations on lawsuits alleging child sex abuse. As......

Amid the current struggle at the state Capitol over a bad-news budget, could the new urban-dominated Democratic Senate majority leadership under Malcolm Smith be making the tactical mistake of taking the budget votes of Craig Johnson (D-Port Washington)...