Charles O'Byrne had some pointed advice for his former boss David Paterson during their Feb. 21 meeting. Off with their heads. According to a well-placed source, Mr. O'Byrne, the former chief of staff and powerful consigliere who left the governor's office under the cloud of a tax scanda...

David Paterson knows things are bad. On the afternoon of Feb. 19—the day the New York Post published a remarkable editorial urging the governor to bring back Charles O'Byrne, the senior aide that the paper had helped push out after a tax scandal—Paterson was telling reporters that he...

ALBANY—Kirsten Gillibrand thinks New Yorkers are starting to get used to the idea that she’ll be a senator for a long time. “I think it’s happening already, I really do,� Ms. Gillibrand said in an interview on Feb. 14 as she ate a celery stick dipped in blue cheese at the end of a long day...

ALBANY—Kirsten Gillibrand thinks New Yorkers are starting to get used to the idea that she’ll be a senator for a long time. “I think it’s happening already, I really do,� Ms. Gillibrand said in an interview on Feb. 14 as she ate a celery stick dipped in blue cheese at the end of a long day...

According to the relatively few people who got to see her in private settings during the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton’s enthusiasm for the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process was an impressive thing to behold. Yashar Hedayat, who organized a fund-raiser for her in 2007 at th...

ALBANY-A week before the process to appoint New York's junior U.S. senator reached its messy end, Governor David Paterson stood onstage at an event with Hillary Clinton and compared his experience in the state's highest office to a dirty movie. "I've been governor for nine and a hal...

During a recent appearance by Rudy Giuliani on CNN, a box flashed under his orange tan and orange tie identifying him first as "Fmr. GOP Presidential Candidate" and then "Fmr. New York City Mayor."   Mr. Giuliani is in danger of being a permanent "Fmr."If he wants to h...

Kirsten Gillibrand kind of knows everyone in politics. Just ask her.“What makes me so successful is that I’ve developed so many relationships,� she said in a phone interview on Jan. 27, hours after being sworn in as a U.S. senator, as she walked to the Senate floor to cast her first vote. “B...

For all the accounts of the last-minute machinations that went into the selection of Kirsten Gillibrand as New York's new senator, we haven't heard much about the sudden willingness of some gay-rights activists to vouch for her. Apparently, this was a prerequisite. Hours before Governor Davi...

Terry McAuliffe has attended many fund-raisers at the Park Avenue apartment of influential Democratic bundler Hassan Nemazee. But last week he was there for the first time as a candidate. On the night of Jan. 22, McAuliffe, the former chairman of the DNC, voluble longtime Clinton fund-raiser and now...