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2010

    July
693 July 29, 2010 Shameful, Not Criminal (Judge Kaye Flays Gov. Paterson But Finds No Crime Committed)
692 July 28, 2010 Wine is Fine, Liquor is Quicker (Albany Mulls Sale of Wine in Groceries)
691 July 22, 2010 Cops Go Forward; Geese Come Back (Police Will Scan Data Manually To Comply With Stop and Frisk, Geese Returning to Prospect Park)
690 July 20, 2010 To Catch A Thief (Albany Democrats, Paterson Ignore Bloomberg and Kelly, Limit Use of Stop and Frisk)
689 July 16, 2010 The Prospect of Goosegate (Goose Gassers Ignored Own Seven-Mile Rule On Airport Proximity)
688 July 14, 2010 Air Rights - To Die For? (400 Geese Killed In Prospect Park, Was It Necessary?)
687 July 9, 2010 HOT AIR: Albany, NYC, Syracuse (Barrett, on Albany Strife, Criticizes Paterson Vetoes As Unjustified Pessimism On Funding of Medicaid)
686 July 8, 2010 Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? (Buffalonian Senator Stachowski Objects To Paying Sales Tax On Cheap Clothing)
    June
685 June 30, 2010 Dogs and Weasels (MTA Cuts Service, DOT Doesn't Want Private Operators To Fill the Slack. Daily News Calls 64 Legislators 'Weasels')
684 June 28, 2010 Tragedy Amidst Beauty (Tree Branch Falls at the Zoo, Infant Killed, Mother Injured)
683 June 25, 2010 Apartment of Mental Health (City Budget: Agreement / State Issues: Unresolved / Court Decision to Raise / Mental Health Expense)
682 June 23, 2010 MTA Minions Face Axe (MTA Running On Fumes / More Cuts Are Predicted / What About Big Earners? / Fares to Rise in January)
681 June 18, 2010 Pension King Is College Prexy (Biggest Dipper Hits the Spot / $541,037 + Fringes, That Alot / Thrice as Much as Paterson Too / SUNY Albany Is Good for You)
680 June 17, 2010 Paterson Channels Polonius (Albany Skirmish Over Borrowing)
679 June 11, 2010 Californians Rebuff Parties (California Voters Approve 'Top Two' Elections Both Parties Fought)
678 June 10, 2010 Sticks and Stones (Rogue Senators Trash Governor In War of Words. 'Thugs', He Calls Espada and Diaz)
677 June 8, 2010 Cuckoo Coupday ($125 Billion Spent, What Do You Get? Another Year Older And Deeper In Debt)
676 June 4, 2010 Errors Should Be Corrected (Cowardly Commissioner Won't Overrule Umpire Who Admitted His Error)
675 June 3, 2010 64 Squares on a Chessboard (Albany Deadlock Continues, GOP Turns to Lazio Again But Donovan Has Best Shot)
674 June 1, 2010 Where Have All the Dollars Gone? (Cuomo: A Man With a Plan, But Where is the $10 Billion We Need To Balance Budget?)
    May
673 May 28, 2010 The Lion and the Fox (Cuomo Selects Duffy, Rochester Career Cop, Twice Elected Mayor, As His Running Mate)
672 May 24, 2010 The Book of Andrew (Cuomo's Plan for New York: Restore Trust, Accountability)
671 May 21, 2010 The Age of Andrew (Cuomo Would Pick Ticket, Seeks Pledges for Reform)
670 May 19, 2010 Incumbents Imperiled (Voters Want Change, But Few New Yorkers Are Entering Politics)
669 May 18, 2010 I Came, I Saw, I Waited ("Si Ves Algo, Di Algo" 37-Minute Wait for M31, The M72 That Glided By)
668 May 14, 2010 The Sons Also Set (Voters Shun Incumbents, Two Sons Are Defeated Budget Is 44 Days Late)
667 May 10, 2010 40 - Forty - XL - Two Score (State Budget 40 Days Late and $9B Short)
666 May 7, 2010 They Can't Work It Out (Three Men In a Room Nowhere to Be Seen, Budget 37 Days Late)
665 May 6, 2010 They Want to Kill Us (City Narrowly Escapes Bungling Bomber's Plot -- What Are We Doing to Protect the World From Nuclear Iran?)
    April
664 April 30, 2010 Baying at the Moon (Reformers Frustrated By Legislative Inaction But They Keep Trying)
663 April 27, 2010 State Treasury Emptying (Legislature Paralyzed As State Slides Down Road to Fiscal Ruin)
662 April 22, 2010 Swords Strike Espada (Espada Is Bedeviled By FBI, IRS, NYSAG. Sampson Undisturbed)
661 April 20, 2010 Koch Collects Pledges (Four Candidates Promise Impartial Redistricting of Legislature in 2010)
660 April 13, 2010 A Fortnight Late, and $3B Short (Queens Mortgage Fraud Called Worst in the U.S.; State Still $3 Billion Short)
659 April 7, 2010 Knights of the Charter (Goldstein Commission to Study City Charter, Propose Amendments To Go To Referendum)
658 April 1, 2010 Deadline Passes, No Lifeline Seen (April Fools' Day Still No Budget, It's No Surprise)
    March
657 March 25, 2010 Share Your Thoughts. Only $50K. (Senate Dems Put Squeeze on Labor)
656 March 23, 2010 Eight Days, Two Houses, One Governor (Senate Dems Cut Schools, Show Awareness of Deficit But Are Still Billions Short)
655 March 17, 2010 The People Speak (Mon Serrate, Serrate Senate Expelled Him, Voters Keep Him Out)
654 March 12, 2010 Paterson Reprieved (Govenor Catches A Break, Cuomo Names Judge Kaye As Independent Prosecutor)
653 March 11, 2010 Ravitch Plan Reprises '75 (Ravitch Would Borrow Billions, Impose Curbs on State Spending)
652 March 3, 2010 S.S. Paterson Hits New Iceberg (Ethics Panel Charges Paterson On $1700 World Series Tickets Paid for by a Backdated Check)
651 March 1, 2010 Twelve Step Program (What Went Wrong With Government. Can It Be Fixed?)
    February
650 February 26, 2010 Spitzer - Paterson - Q? - Ravitch? (Tabloids Pursue Governor, They Say He Should Resign But Paterson Likes the Job)
649 February 19, 2010 The Gray Lady Sings (Times Says Patterson is Remote and Uninvolved Except for Two Buddies)
648 February 17, 2010 Who Will Bell the Cat? (Barry Blasts Bosses Chides 'Reformers')
647 February 12, 2010 Thou Shalt Not Steal (War on Fraud Widens: U.S. Attorney and DOI Following Money Trail)
645 and 646 February 11, 2010 Sequel to Ash Wednesday (Monserrate Sues Over Ouster Federal Court Will Decide)
644 February 10, 2010 Seabrook Down; Monserrate Out (Feds Nail Seabrook For Seven Fat Years, Monserrate Out)
643 February 8, 2010 Who Can You Trust? (Challenged Winner Of VLT Concession Makes New Pledges)
642 February 4, 2010 How Low Can They Go? (Aqueduct VLT Deal Fails the Nose Test As Scandal Unfolds)
641 February 2, 2010 Triborough Forever (Bridge Should Keep Time Honored Name No Offense to RFK)
    January
640 January 29, 2010 Waiting on Albany (Mayor Plans Budget Cuts Caused by Less Revenue, Uncertain on State Aid)
639 January 27, 2010 The Way We Were (Unions Took Place of Political Clubs)
638 January 20, 2010 Reality Bites the Democrats (The Out Party Gains Just By Not Being In When Times Are Bad)
637 January 11, 2010 The Case for Term Limits (Incumbents Reject Term Limits as a Threat to Their Hegemony, But Public May Raise the Issue as Respect for Officials Wanes)
636 January 7, 2010 Was Thompson Manchurian? (Thompson Candidacy Assisted Bloomberg by Blocking Weiner)
635 January 6, 2010 David in the Lions' Den (Paterson Proposes Ethics Reforms and Term Limits)
634 January 4, 2010 Sampson Finds a Silver Lining (Senate Speaker Sampson Joins a Tort Law Firm, Just Like Speaker Silver)