The Obama administration just sent out a series of releases that provide details about how money from the stimulus package--the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act--will impact job growth in individual states and congressional districts. According to the numbers, New York State will gain about 215,000 jobs--more than most states, fewer than California (396,000) and Texas (269,000 ...

Hundreds of same-sex couples were turned away from the New York marriage bureau as part of a coordinated protest. [DN] Jerry Nadler's $3 billion for transit amendment was never approved by the Senate. [TRE] Councilwoman Maria Baez may face a tough challenge for re-election. [WBN] Austin Shafran says State Senate Democrats are definitely getting rid of Joe Bruno's ...

These may be austere, depressing times for New York's private sector. But for our public officials, it's a full-blown boom. Hence the spectacle—in a week in which the mayor and the governor presented end-of-days budgets—of David Paterson fretting about the perils of coming into massive amounts of cash. "Certainly in terms of the stimulus money, we ...

Representative Jerry Nadler didn't meet any of the political criteria Governor David Paterson sought in a senate appointment. He isn't a woman. He's not from upstate. And he's not exactly a fund-raising juggernaut. Still, during the torturous weeks in which Paterson played his appointment parlor game, the very notion of Nadler serving with Chuck Schumer in ...