Though there wasn't much excitement about New York's Republican Presidential primaries on April 24, Republicans in Brooklyn are optimistic about the ground they’ve gained in the borough, particularly in Southern Brooklyn. »
Mitt Romney to President Obama (via “World News” anchor Diane Sawyer): “Start packing.” A penguin bit Newt Gingrich. Rick Lazio has a new job. Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks called the Ryan Plan a “conversation starter.” Rep. Louise Slaughter re... »
Rep. Richard Hanna thinks the state pension crisis will be the tipping point that gets national debt under control. Rep. Ed Towns re-election campaign has a very low profile. Sen. Roy McDonald has the support of Columbia County Conservative Party – mig... »
Most of the New York Republican establishment has backed Mitt Romeny for president (albeit rather tepidly, in the case of some, like former Gov. George Pataki, who once harbored White House dreams himself), but there’s been one high-profile holdout: Fo... »
Senate Republicans aren’t complaining about Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s creation of an health insurance exchange through an executive order, part of the federal mandate stipulated in the health care law that could ultimately be tossed out by the U.S. Supreme C... »
After a mothership meeting last night where Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos announced they had reached a tentative budget deal. The two leaders predicted bills would start passing Wednesday. The agreement includes... »
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Will BreddermanThe Brooklyn PaperU.S. Secret Service agents arrested a Bay Ridge man they say was part of a coast-to-coast credit card forgery ring — but the suspect’s rattled neighbors believe that something far ... »
President Obama’s bodyguards say the Ridge Boulevard man they arrested last week was making fake credit cards, but the man’s rattled neighbors think he was doing something much worse. Read more. »
