ALBANY—Justice Thomas McNamara, anticlimactically, ordered the warring parties in a leadership struggle for the State Senate to continue negotiating.
"As a matter of public policy, you guys should work this out so I'm directing you to go across the street and do that and report back to me at 1 o'clock," he said. "There Read More
ALBANY—Michael Cherkasky, the man David Paterson appointed to lead the embattled Commission on Public Integrity as he seeks to dissolve it, just issued a statement "respectfully" saying the governor was wrong to call for the commissioners to resign.
"After my full review, I respectfully submit, however, that the Governor's request should be withdrawn," Read More
ALBANY—Michael Cherkasky, the man David Paterson appointed to lead the embattled Commission on Public Integrity as he seeks to dissolve it, just issued a statement “respectfully” saying the governor was wrong to call for the commissioners to resign.
“After my full review, I respectfully submit, however, that the Governor’s request should be withdrawn,” Cherkasky Read More
TROY—A judge has refused to sign a temporary restraining order preventing State Senator Pedro Espada Jr., who claimed to have been elected president pro tempore of the State Senate in a coup Monday that has paralyzed state government, from discharging that office.
However, the judge did reschedule a hearing on the Read More
TROY—A judge has refused to sign a temporary restraining order preventing State Senator Pedro Espada Jr., who claimed to have been elected president pro tempore of the State Senate in a coup Monday that has paralyzed state government, from discharging that office.
However, the judge did reschedule a hearing on the merits of Monday’s Read More
