Governor Andrew Cuomo is not the only person praising his latest appointment to the MTA Board, his predecessor David Paterson. As the Daily News‘ Albany bureau chief Ken Lovett reported earlier today, Governor Paterson will be replacing trucker girl Nancy Shevell (whom The Observer wrote perhaps the definitive profile of last year). A Read More
Gov. David Paterson is slated to deliver the commencement address at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks next month, and he told The Politicker that he hopes to warn the grads not to get discouraged in the unforgiving real world they are about to enter.
“What I want to convey to them is, unfortunately, some Read More
Executive Pay: New York tops the list. [Stateline.org]
Police Scandal: “Police Headquarters and City Hall, where officials are preparing for a police scandal the likes of which the city has not felt in decades.” [Murray Weiss]
2012: Trump “is making a fundamental miscalculation about what we can get away with.” Critics wonder Read More
Monday was extremely busy–but don’t worry, everyone was safe; Commissioner Kelly presided at one of the central tables in the Grill! Across the room, Governor Paterson was eating fruit salad with Bill White.
Peter Brandt was also here, looking very sharp in a gray pinstriped double-breasted suit–no wonder he’s back with his gorgeous wife! The Read More
In this morning’s Observer, I wrote about David Paterson’s budget extender brinksmanship and the lasting impact it might have on how business is conducted at the state Capitol.
While most Albany observers seem to consider the new tool to be his administration’s lasting legacy, the former governor said he was most proud of his Read More
Buried in the New York Post‘s exultant coverage of Andrew Cuomo’s on-time budget agreement with the Legislature in Albany was a remarkable, easily missable tribute to a governor whom the Post, in general, likes somewhat less.
Despite a “dismal” record in office, David Paterson (along with another predecessor, George Pataki) “helped blaze the path that Read More
Former Governor David Paterson has high praise for the budget battle being waged by his successor, Andrew Cuomo.
“I really like the task forces he put together to give people a chance to air their differences to each other personally, which I think is actually brilliant,” Paterson said yesterday in Brooklyn.
“What the governor is Read More
This letter, from former Governor Paterson is hanging on the wall in the New York Observer‘s conference room. In it, Paterson politely declines my publisher’s $5 Starbucks giftcard, due to the strict nature of Albany’s ethics rules.
I officially start here tomorrow, but couldn’t resist Read More
Want a new legislator? Looks like there’s a better chance of them get caught with their hand in the cookie jar or posting fun, flirty classifieds on CraigsList than getting voted out of office.
A report released today says that one of every 11 legislators who left office since 1999 has done so on account Read More
Governor David Paterson today announced that BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has promised to have 1,530 New York jobs by the end of this year and add another 200 New York jobs over the course of 2011.
By way of comparison, the New York Department of Labor says that the state lost Read More
