Another Legal Hurdle for Eugene?

Mathieu Eugene’s opponents have come up with a new legal argument to try to prevent him from running again for that City Council seat in Brooklyn’s 40th District that he won, but then was unable to occupy because of his inability to prove that he was a resident.

Heartbeat News, a Brooklyn-based paper, quotes Read More

Liz Benjamin!

The peerless Liz Benjamin is coming to New York City to join the Daily News.

For those of you who don’t know her — but really, who doesn’t? — Liz is an authoritative and fantastically prolific blogger and reporter. She also has the distinction of having performed two of the toughest roles in the Read More

Another Non-Resident Runs in 40th, Hynes Backs Eugene

As if the City Council race in Brooklyn wasn’t interesting enough.

As a reader points out to me, there’s a newcomer to the race for the City Council seat in Brooklyn’s 40th District, which remains vacant after an initial special election because the winner, Mathieu Eugene, was unable to prove that he met residency Read More

The Smallville Campaign: Hillary Goes Back in Time

Until I saw her on the stump these past few days, I’d never have believed that Hillary Clinton could attract voters by appealing to their sense of yearning for the 1950’s.

It seems, on the face of it, an absurd idea. The only thing that Mrs. Clinton’s most zealous fans and shrillest critics agree upon Read More

Bigshot Lawyer Filed Resume Online

Tom Shanahan, the newest high-profile addition to Team Spitzer, called yesterday to confirm that he’ll be working for the governor as a deputy commissioner in the Division on Human Rights.

He said his new job would focus on “coordinating public outreach” for the commissioner.

So how did the well-known lawyer and gay rights Read More