Paterson’s Tricky Dance With Unions

ALBANY—After a gripe session at the end of last month in Kingston, David Paterson has been working to shore up ties with labor groups. But it's a tough sell at a tough time.

"I don't have any trouble getting through, I have trouble convincing them," said Alan Lubin, executive vice president for the New Read More

Now, Paterson Acts Like He Means It

ALBANY—David Paterson—affable colleague, funny orator, passive and heretofore ineffective governor—is trying to show that he can be a fighter, after all.
In recent days, as polls continue to show him getting destroyed in a hypothetical primary next year against Andrew Cuomo, he has attemped to warn off would-be challengers from his base in Harlem, Read More