And now in Sapphically-centric legal news: NY Governor David Paterson has appointed two out lesbians to the Appellate Division of the state court system. Judges Rosalyn Richter and Elizabeth A. Garry were named to the intermediate level late yesterday afternoon: Paterson Appoints Two Lesbians to NYS...

It's over for New York Governor David Paterson. Or if it isn't, he needs to pull, as James Carville would say, the greatest comeback since Lazarus. Marist College. 2/26-27. Registered voters. MoE 3%. Would you rate the job Governor David Paterson is doing as excellent, good, fair or poor? Excellent/...

Friday Morning News Roundup I continue to be amazed at how Senator Ronald Burris has gone from political genius to a national embarrassment. Now it appears that former Governor Rod Blagojevich hired Ronald Burris, II , as senior counsel, for the state’s Housing Authority in mid-September. This...

Andrew Cuomo, who now leads a sitting governor by more than 30 points in a potential 2010 primary match-up, is living proof that, for an ambitious politician who knows what to do with it, there really is no better stepping-stone than the office of state attorney general. The job really is an image-m...

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...

The competent-governance lesson for today: when faced with a major political decision such as making an appointment to the United States Senate, don't handle it in such a way that the process winds up pissing everybody off. We can now see our way clear to a 2011 when Kirsten Gillibrand is still in o...

Strange things happen in this world. And when politicians try to intervene technology, scary situations arise. Very simply let me give you the shock. New York Governor David Paterson has proposed a tax on Internet downloads. So what does that mean? It means whatever you download from the internet ma...

Following up on the Illinois story below, the political situation in New York doesn't look good for the Governor, David Paterson, or his pick to be Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand. Some Democrats really know how to turn a winning situation into a losing one pretty damn fast. Hillary Clinton's ascension ...

A: The anti-sighted crusades rage on! N.Y. Gov. Aims To Tax Downloads, Including Porn [NPR] This goes against everything Sean Hannity holds dear! Plus, he hates taxes....

NY Gov. David Paterson is looking rilly rilly hard for new revenue streams. To that end, he is proposing a 4% sales tax on all digital products downloaded in New York. And since a huge throbbing wet hunk of that business is porn, the XXX world is not pleased. Now Gov. Paterson is rubbing the porn in...