As recently as the early 1990s, the notion of a former New York City mayor becoming an honorary citizen of Albania would have been unimaginable. Back then the Balkan country, which had been known as the world's most isolated, was still emerging from a lon... See more
All the insider suspense has ended over whether Anthony D'Esposito would run for his former House of Representatives seat against incumbent Rep. Laura Gillen. The final answer is an anticlimactic "No." The county GOP, headed by chairman Joe Cairo, went at... See more
Before this week, longtime Albany observers expected that the threat of the Public Campaign Finance Board holding back public funding for gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman would be just a quick, fun way for Democrats to make him jump through bureaucr... See more
Six years ago this month, the COVID-19 lockdowns began. Serious public health mandates were in place. Workers were sidelined, schools shut and the economy slowed sharply. But President Donald Trump said in a virtual town hall from the Rose Garden, "I woul... See more
The title of President Donald Trump’s Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act could have been shortened to the "SAVE Me" Act. Its goal, as clear from this week's marathon debate, is to save Trump from facing a Democratic majority in the Ho... See more
