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Aubertine named chair of rural resources commission

February 25th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Breaking News, Government, Politics, State News, Top News
Sen. Darrel Aubertine, D-Cape Vincent, was named chair of the state Legislative Commission on Rural Resources today. The commission is designed to create policies that boost economic revitalization in rural, Upstate New York. Aubertine and vice chair Assemblyman David Koon,...

New York leaders will meet to discuss spending stimulus money

February 25th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Breaking News, Politics, State News
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York Gov. David Paterson plans to meet with legislative leaders to discuss the state's share of a federal stimulus package and potentially using more of it to fill cuts Paterson proposes in the budget. The...

Fact checking Obama’s ‘fireside chat’

February 25th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Breaking News, Politics, Top News
President says only the deserving will get mortgage help, but it's unlikely the government can weed out people who made bad decisions.

Durbin advises Burris to resign

February 24th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, Senate
USA TODAY's congressional reporter Fredreka Schouten reports that Sen. Roland Burris of Illinois met with the state's senior senator, Dick Durbin, for about 45 minutes. Durbin asked for the meeting to discuss the junior senator's conflicting accounts of his contacts...

Reid gets fundraising boost from losing candidate

February 24th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Congressional elections, 2010, Democrats, Republicans, Senate
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is a prolific fundraiser. Since 1989, Reid has raised $21 million for his Senate candidate committee. And he has raised nearly $7 million for his political action committee, Searchlight Leadership Fund, since 1997. Yet, he's...

Paterson’s popularity continues to slide

February 24th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Breaking News, Politics, State News, Top News
John Berry / The Post-StandardNew York Governor David Paterson addresses the crowd that attended his town hall meeting Jan. 31 at Cayuga Community College. ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A new poll released today shows Gov. David Paterson slumping to the...

Gov. Paterson’s stock falling

February 24th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, Governors, Senate, State & local races
New York Governor David Paterson's popularity is falling faster than the Dow Jones. Our colleagues at the Democrat and Chronicle say his approval rating now stands at a new low of 28% -- down 23 percentage points from just a...

Morning roundup: Obama, Burris and special elections

February 24th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Congressional elections, 2010, Democrats, Economy, Ethics, Independents, Investigations, Obama administration, Republicans, Senate
Good morning. Big day on the Hill. President Obama gives his address to Congress at 9 p.m., and Sen. Roland Burris of Illinois will be among those in attendance. Burris has kept a low profile since Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn...

Romney to the rescue

February 23rd, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Congressional elections, 2010, Democrats, House, Obama administration, Presidential election, 2012, Republicans
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched a low-budget email, text message and phone campaign against a dozen Republican lawmakers who voted against President Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan. And former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has fired back. Romney, the...

Bunning says Justice Ginsburg won’t recover, then apologizes

February 23rd, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Senate
Over the weekend, Kentucky Republican Sen. Jim Bunning predicted that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likely would be dead from pancreatic cancer in nine months. "Bad cancer. The kind you don't get better from," Bunning said Saturday during a...

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