ALBANY — Unions and the state’s drug stores are teaming up to scuttle a 2007 reform supporters say has saved tens of millions of dollars for New York’s workers’ compensation system. They are trying to pass a bill would let injured workers fill prescripti...
A judge has ordered the release of Eliot Spitzer’s trove of missives from a private e-mail account that he used as New York attorney general to conduct official business in secret. The undisclosed e-mails relate to his Wall Street crackdown in 2005, when...
Steamroller Eliot Spitzer is back! At least, he thinks so. The disgraced former “Love Gov” called the head of the Citizens Union to complain about the government-watchdog group’s endorsement of Gov. Cuomo’s compromise on legislative redistricting, The Po...
Liberal loudmouth Keith Olbermann let his lawyers do the talking yesterday in his battle with Current TV, filing a multimillion-dollar, wrongful-termination suit. The canned “Countdown” host was at Citi Field, taking in the Mets’ season-opening victory, ...
The Issue: The firing of Keith Olbermann from his latest TV gig on Al Gore’s network. *** It’s ironic that blowhard Keith Olbermann, who nightly names his “worst person in the world,” has been fired again, this time by virtually unknown Current TV (“How ...
By Jacob Gershman Gov. Andrew Cuomo came into office pledging to prune the weeds of government bureaucracy, pointing in particular to the unwieldy number of commissions and task forces left behind by his predecessors.But in less than a year and a half, M...
By Jacob Gershman And Jared A. Favole ALBANY—When President Barack Obama visited a nanotechnology center here Tuesday, it provided an ideal setting not only for an economic pep talk but also to absorb some of the popularity of his host, Gov. Andrew Cuomo...
By Andrew Grossman Hedge funds have emerged as a force in New York state politics in the past seven years, funneling tens of millions of dollars to political parties, pet causes and candidates from both major parties, according to a report set to be rele...
Just days after he was fired from Current TV, Keith Olbermann admitted Tuesday he "screwed up." Speaking to CBS' "The Late Show with David Letterman" Olbermann conceded he had contributed to his own demise, according to excerpts from the pre-recorded int...
By Christopher S. Stewart And Martin Peers Current TV, the cable news network co founded by former Vice President Al Gore, abruptly fired Keith Olbermann, the big-name but fractious political commentator it hired last year.In his place, the network is la...
Facebook's limping IPO is the unintended but predictable consequence of past attempts by Eliot Spitzer and other purveyors of "fairness" to make stock markets more open and democratic. Whereas it used to be that only the very rich and very big could part...
Politico has a story about what happened to four lawmakers after they got caught in sex scandals. Former Tennessee state senator Paul Stanley is one of them . There's only one juicy bit of gossip in Stanley's part — where he seems to confirm rumors that ...
Ashley Dupre , the woman once linked to the downfall of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, has now opened a lingerie shop in New Jersey. Her new business venture, " Femme by Ashley ," focuses on selling luxurious swimsuits and intimate apparel for w...
ALBANY -- Years after former Gov. Eliot Spitzer first nominated him, Buffalo developer Howard Zemsky today overcame Western New York turf battles to finally get confirmed as chairman of the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority. Zemsky, who was re-no...
Appearing on ABC's "This Week," former Gov. Eliot Spitzer (why do they give him a forum?) offered the Democratic Party's defense of the Obama economy. The Republicans, Spitzer sputtered "want to go back to medieval medicine, the bloodletting, leeches. Th...
