2d Circuit Court of Appeals holds the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.

This comes in addition to a similar decision from the First Circuit last May. The case was bought by a woman whose wife — wife, under New Yo...

Gov. Cuomo wants to permit fracking, but only in a few counties along the Pennsylvania border...

... and only where the local populace supports the activity. He's trying to balance between the people who worry about contaminating the...

"Ridiculous NY-09 spin: 'It’s a very difficult district for Democrats.'"

Ed Morrissey laughs. Just how big is the NY-09 result?

"As the 51st governor of New York from 1975 through 1982, [Hugh] Carey led a small group of public servants who vanquished the fiscal crisis..."

"... that threatened New York City and the state — the direst emergency a governor had faced since the Depression — by taking on powers...

Gay marriage in New York State is "a BFD because a Republican-led State Senate passed this law."

Writes Andrew Sullivan: Going outside traditional Democratic party lobbies to appeal to those on the other side who are open to our argument...

NY passes same-sex marriage law.

The vote was 33-to-29, with 4 Republican state senators joining the 29 Democrats. Good.

"Any father who would take his children to such things is not really thinking of the fatherly perspective and is more interested in politics."

Said Paladino about Cuomo. Cuomo found that "reckless" and "divisive.”

For a while there, it looked as though a vote today in the NY Senate was going to legalize same-sex marriage.

Witness the excitement. But it was not to be: The bill was defeated by a decisive margin of 38 to 24. The Democrats, who have a bare, one-se...

An inconceivably bad monument.

We are entering Empire State Plaza, that heinous monument to government waste and stupidity : Just around that corner is the expensive toile...

The atrocity that is Empire State Plaza.

You're walking in a neighborhood of 19th century townhouses... ... and you run smack into this: New York spent $2 billion to demolish 98...

"Don't look too closely... or you'll see the swastikas...."

Reading this comment from Scott (in the previous post) ... I haven't been through Albany in years. But I do recall that the NY State Edu...

Beautiful Albany.

My favorite building in Albany is City Hall , also pictured in the previous post : In front is a statue of Philip Schuyler , a Revolutionary...

You judge the new Tina Fey skit spoofing Sarah Palin.

I clicked it off at 1:29 even though I wanted to blog about it. I thought it was too dumb and boring to watch. Waiting all those long second...

Judges in shorts.

There are a lot of problems with the 1,250 town and village courts in New York, according to a new report, but some things are truly alarmi...