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Dem elites and Clinton shills are already taking aim at Sanders people or Greens, blaming Trump's victory on them. As usual with the e...

From Joseph Spector at Politics on the Hudson: The state’s property-tax cap expires next year, and new Senate Majority Leader John Flana...

New Jersey here we come: ALBANY—State lawmakers are moving ahead with a plan to defer more than $1 billion in pension payments over the ...

From Syracuse.com: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Mayor Stephanie Miner has once again challenged Gov. Andrew Cuomo, this time by demanding more money ...

 From the Capital New York Education update: UNION: CUOMO SABOTAGING PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS—Capital’s Jessica Bakeman: “ A union represent...

From Bloomberg News: ALBANY – New Yorkers are living longer, which is good news for the state’s 19.7 million residents. For Gov. Andrew ...

That was a statement Cuomo made today concerning competitive economic development grants he is proposing for upstate, but the statement work...

Guest Post By Harris Lirtzman , former Director of Risk Management for the New York City Retirement Systems in the NYC Comptroller's Of...

It's so interesting to see the selective writing of the functionaries for the oligarchy at the Daily News when it comes to Merryl Tisch....

For the past couple of weeks, AFT President Randi Weingarten has been fighting the good fight against TIME Magazine for running this cover: ...

Ross Barkan at Politicker: Recasting Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s race as a bellwether of the left’s ongoing struggle with conservatives nationwi...

Food writer Frank Bruni has written another teacher-bashing column, a habit of his ever since they gave him op-ed real estate at the NY Time...

This is it, in a nutshell: The city's poverty rate sat at 21.4% in 2012, barely unchanged from a year earlier, according to a report...

If you're even dimly aware of the fevered ego that is neo-liberal Senator Cory Booker, you're not surprised by this news: Sens. C...

Interesting piece of data in Pedro Noguera's Time-Union opinion piece decrying the Cuomo budget: With Gov. Andrew Cuomo emerging as...

That story that Dana Rubenstein broke at Capital NY about Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio using a Bloomberg-funded consultant group suggested by...

From the DN weekend news round-up: With his two daughters in tow, President Obama visited popular D.C. bookstore “Politics and Prose” Sa...

Errol Louis patting himself on the back for serving food at a mission on Thanksgiving Comptroller @JohnCLiu and I both brought our sons ...

"Frankly, the public education system was better off when George W. Bush was president because Democrats fought him." ~ Diane Rav...

Mark Naison points out Chris Christie is not the only local teacher-basher and destroyer of public education:   As we watch, with excite...