Richard Brodsky is worried that state authorities, which he calls "Soviet-style bureaucracies," will screw up stimulus spending. [Newsday] Nine hundred guns were recovered this weekend in the first gun buyback program in Queens. [1010] There's a little outrage that Marty Markowitz want...

Richard Brodsky is worried that state authorities, which he calls "Soviet-style bureaucracies," will screw up stimulus spending. [Newsday] Nine hundred guns were recovered this weekend in the first gun buyback program in Queens. [1010] There's a little outrage that Marty Markowitz want...

Charles O'Byrne has committed to being an unpaid adviser to David Paterson's re-election campaign, which the Times calls a "return," the Daily News calls "no return," and Fred Dicker calls "an embarrassing rejection." Similarly, Paterson is either saying he'...

New York is getting $24.6 billion from the federal stimulus--more than originally expected. Mike McMahon gushed about it to The Brooklyn Paper. The mayor of Rochester says the city needs a lobbyist again. The total sum of unpaid tickets, fees and fines could close New York City's budget gap. The...

David Paterson is going to visit the site of the plane crash in Buffalo. [AP] Buffalo Pundit lives within a half-mile of the crash site. [BP] They are still protesting at the hospitals slated for closure in Queens. "If we can bailout banks, developers and baseball stadiums, surely we can fund h...

Eliot Brown looks at new details about the city's plan for Gowanus: tons of apartments, but not so many hotels. [TRE] Eric Massa changed his policy on accepting donations from corporate P.A.C.s. [F29] Dean Skelos wants David Paterson to resubmit his 2009-2010 budget proposal to include the feder...

As city comptroller, Bill Thompson has blocked Michael Bloomberg's plan to reopen the Brooklyn House of Detention, saying the cost has gone too high. [BP] Incongruously, the farm economy in the area around Rochester is up over the last several years. [D&C] Yoda lists the top ten reasons Mich...

Irene Liu reports that, well, the numbers Senate Democrats gave today are not the same ones she got from the budget office. The Hill reports that the Times editorial played a large roll in Tom Daschle's withdrawal. Those around him were stunned. Marc Ambinder seems impressed by Daschle's sta...

New York's new senator-to-be, Kirsten Gillibrand, did the Harlem-Queens route yesterday on a sort of downstate "listening tour." She also met with David Paterson, Chuck Schumer, and Hillary Clinton, all together. The New York Times profiles her political roots, early life and career. G...

Former (!) Vice President Dick Cheney told the press he thinks Bush should have pardoned Scooter. [WS] The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has 17 safety issues that Entergy will have to address before it will renew Indian Point's operating license. [AP] Two of the six candidates for Bill de Blasio...