John Flanagan

It's very popular to rage against high gasoline prices these days. Our elected representatives are nearly tripping over themselves to oppose priciness at the pump. But the solutions they offer are ineffective and simply pander to a fed-up driving public....

Missing from last week???s string of endorsements in State Senate races by Rochester billionaire Thomas Golisano were two prominent Long Islanders ??? Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) and Sen. Owen Johnson (R-West Babylon). James T....

Sen. John Flanagan (R-C-East Northport), already mentioned in this space as a possible future statewide-office prospect for the Republicans, has been gripping and grinning with some of the prominent civic types in western New York alongside Majority...

ALBANY - A political campaign committee funded by Rochester billionaire Thomas Golisano announced Friday more endorsements in State Senate races, including Brookhaven Town Supervisor Brian Foley's bid to unseat incumbent Caesar Trunzo (R-Brentwood)....

For the moment, the biggest Long Island names in statewide politics belong to Thomas DiNapoli, the Democratic state comptroller, and Dean Skelos, the Senate???s GOP majority leader. Fast-forward to the 2010 governor???s race, and at least five regional...

Gov. David A. Paterson has used his veto pen to declare a timeout in the controversy over a truck-rail yard on Pilgrim State Hospital land in Brentwood, killing legislation that would have made it part of the Oak Brush Plain State Preserve instead. In...

Long Island has been wronged for more than a decade by the many state and local leaders who have failed to pursue an intelligent regional plan for growth in the Sagtikos corridor. To his credit, Gov. David Paterson is determined not to be one of them....

The state Senate gave one-house approval late last week to a measure, sponsored by Sen. John Flanagan (R-C-I-East Northport) and backed by other Long Island Republicans, that would require proof of citizenship, age and residency from New Yorkers...

As mentioned last week, some law firms with members who collected pensions and benefits from school districts despite being independent contractors have incidental ties to politicos. One is Forchelli, Curto, Mineo, Schwartz, Carlino & Cohn, where Terrence...

If Sen. Barack Obama is an agent for change, his rivals old and new might want to ask him to spare some. Today Obama plows ahead with the title of front-runner-flush-with-funds while the vacationing Sen. Hillary Clinton settles into her Democratic...

For the moment, the biggest Long Island names in statewide politics belong to Thomas DiNapoli, the Democratic state comptroller, and Dean Skelos, the Senate's GOP majority leader. Fast forward to the 2010 governor's race, and at least five regional...

The resignation of New York Power Authority's chief executive appears related, in some measure, to an uproar over the agency's former inspector general, who's the focus of a widely publicized state-police probe headed by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo....