Post State Editor Fredric Dicker is the dean of the Capitol press corps, having covered state government for three decades and he has won every major New York journalism award for his work. Fred has worked at a total of seven newspapers and three television stations. Raised in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, he earned a B.A. in history from Long Island University, an M.A. in history from the University of Mass., and attended Brandeis University for a PhD in American Civilization but withdrew to "focus on the present, and not the past,'' as he likes to say.
Gov. Cuomo and Senate Republicans are on a collision course that could soon return state government to the “chaos of past years,” sources close to both sides have told The Post. Republicans are threatening to hold up...
February 06, 2012 12:00 AMThe fate of New York’s nervous GOP is riding on the outcome of tomorrow’s presidential primary in Florida, leading state Republicans told The Post. They said the GOP’s ability to defeat incumbent Democratic US Sen....
January 30, 2012 12:00 AM
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is endorsing a pay hike for state lawmakers this year, but he conceded legislators must end their reputation for dysfunction in order to earn one. Silver, touching on what many...
January 23, 2012 12:00 AMAlbany Gov. Cuomo dramatically moved to end Occupy Albany yesterday — and that’s not a reference to the ragtag crowd of anarchists, vagrants and dopers who camped in a Capitol park for the past few months. Using his...
January 18, 2012 12:00 AM
In one of his most dramatic moves since taking office, Gov. Cuomo will use the budget he makes public tomorrow to impose union-hated teacher evaluation systems on 700 school districts throughout the state, The Post has...
January 16, 2012 12:00 AM
Long-simmering tensions between Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos erupted last week at Gov. Cuomo’s State of the State Address, although few in the 2,000-member audience knew it....
January 09, 2012 12:00 AMALBANY — Gov. Cuomo dialed back the sweeping promises of tax cuts and spending restraints that defined his first year in office yesterday with a big-on-rhetoric, modest-on-proposals State of the State Address that won’t...
January 05, 2012 12:00 AM
Gov. Cuomo enters his second year in office this week promising to strengthen the threatened private-sector economy, but his surprise December flip-flop that imposed a new “millionaires tax” has left many wondering if...
January 02, 2012 12:00 AMGov. Cuomo will wait at least six more months to answer the $64,000 question of New York politics. In a disclosure sure to disappoint many Democrats and thrill most Republicans, a political source close to Cuomo told...
December 26, 2011 12:00 AM’Tis the season to pick the biggest winners and losers of state politics in 2011 — and there were plenty of both. The year was dominated by Gov. Cuomo’s aggressive new administration. His political acumen has earned...
December 19, 2011 12:00 AMOne of New York City’s wealthiest young entrepreneurs — the founder of job-finding powerhouse The Ladders.com — has told state Republican leaders that he wants to run against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand next year. GOP...
December 12, 2011 12:00 AM
ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo offered a dazzling display of political jujitsu yesterday as he abandoned his pledge to end the “millionaires tax’’ in a deal with lawmakers that offers modest middle-class tax relief and lowers the...
December 07, 2011 12:00 AMDespite a newfound willingness to raise taxes on the rich, Gov. Cuomo is still insisting he’s fiscally prudent and will hold the line on state spending next year, The Post has learned. Cuomo, in conversations with...
December 05, 2011 12:00 AM
Gov. Cuomo’s pledge not to raise taxes — and to let the widely backed “millionaires tax” expire — will face its toughest test yet when the Legislature reconvenes in January amid growing signs of GOP nervousness,...
November 28, 2011 12:00 AMSo Kirsten Gillibrand, New York’s flip-flopping junior US senator, may get a serious challenger next year after all. Republican Harry Wilson, a wealthy investor and friend of Mayor Bloomberg who ran a strong, but...
November 21, 2011 12:00 AM
Herman Cain has won his first major New York endorsement with the backing of former MTA Chairman and real-estate mogul Peter Kalikow, a key Republican fund-raiser. Kalikow, a close friend of former US Sen. Alfonse D...
November 14, 2011 12:00 AM
Republican Harry Wilson, the wealthy investor and former member of President Obama’s Auto Industry Task Force, is being talked up by GOP insiders as a possible candidate against US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2012, The...
November 07, 2011 12:00 AMGov. Cuomo has a little-noticed backup firewall against those pushing for the controversial “millionaires tax’’ -- the usually ignored Assembly Republican minority. Minority Leader Brian Kolb told The Post yesterday...
October 31, 2011 12:00 AMGov. Cuomo suffered a rare political defeat over the weekend as he tried but failed to get Albany’s Democratic mayor to do something Mayor Bloomberg won’t do: shut down the local Occupy Wall Street demonstration. About...
October 24, 2011 12:00 AM
Hundreds of millions of dollars in “unnecessary spending’’ were authorized by outgoing Port Authority Executive Director Chris Ward to accelerate the rebuilding of Ground Zero, an explosive new audit will show. The...
October 17, 2011 12:00 AMGov. Cuomo scored a major victory in his battle against a “millionaire’s tax’’ yesterday when Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the tax’s leading advocate, pledged not to hold up next year’s budget in order to get the...
October 10, 2011 12:00 AMA little-noticed poll of New Hampshire Democrats has found Gov. Cuomo the overwhelming favorite to run for president in 2016, if Hillary Rodham Clinton stays out of the race. The survey’s eyebrow-raising results have...
October 03, 2011 12:00 AMALBANY Just as his gay-marriage victory boosted Gov. Cuomo’s support with Democrats, approving “hydrofracking’’ for natural gas Upstate will boost him with Republicans and independents, political experts agree. By...
September 28, 2011 12:00 AM
Gov. Cuomo has drawn a line in the sand with the state’s second-largest public-employees union -- saying he will lay off 3,500 workers if their membership doesn’t approve a bare-bones contract when it votes tomorrow,...
September 26, 2011 12:00 AM
Place your bets! Top Albany lawmakers are ready to approve Las Vegas-style casinos for New York state — including the city. Both Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos have individually...
September 19, 2011 12:00 AMTop Democrats have privately told GOP leaders that they want David Weprin defeated in tomorrow’s special congressional election for the Anthony Weiner seat in order to send “a wake-up call to President Obama,” a...
September 12, 2011 12:00 AMLabor Day finds New York Democrats fear ing that President Obama's sinking approval ratings will cost them ex-US Rep. Anthony Weiner's seat next week, plus several congressional seats and the recapture of the state...
September 05, 2011 12:00 AMOne of New York's best-known Republicans is calling on pres idential hopeful Rick Perry to choose Rudy Giuliani as his running mate for next year's election. Former state GOP Chairman William Powers, a longtime...
August 22, 2011 12:00 AM
Gov. Cuomo can for get running for pres ident in 2016 be cause Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to beat him -- and everyone else -- in the race for the Democratic Party's nomination, predicts one of the nation's best...
August 15, 2011 12:00 AMThe irony of Hugh Carey's brilliant success as New York's 51st governor is that he came into office hoping to govern as a traditional liberal Democrat but then transformed himself into a national model of fiscal...
August 08, 2011 12:00 AM
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