Martin Connor

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....

Former Senate Minority Leader Martin Connor (D-Brooklyn) -- a veteran lawmaker who was unseated from the post by now-Gov. David Paterson earlier in the decade -- is getting what seems to be a serious primary from Dan Squadron, a fellow......

This is the week of the broken alliance. So on Wednesday, as noted here, the state Working Families Party, which went all out for the Eliot Spitzer-David Paterson ticket two years ago, launched an advertising assault against the new......

The political committee started by Rochester billionaire Thomas Golisano to shake up state government produced mixed results in Tuesday's primary elections. The Responsible New York committee helped heavyweight boxer Joe Mesi win a three-way Democratic...

ALBANY - The political committee started by Rochester billionaire Thomas Golisano to shake up state government produced mixed results in Tuesday's primary elections. The Responsible New York committee helped heavyweight boxer Joe Mesi win a three-way...

In a year when New York City's biggest newspapers endorsed one of his opponents and a tabloid portrayed him as Count Dracula the day voters went to the polls, Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver showed his power. Even as several other...

In his 2007 book, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer recounts a phone call from his mother who was alarmed at Hurricane Katrina and an unusually hot summer in New York. "`Look at this weather, Chuck!"' he recalled his mother saying. "`The weather's gotten weird!...

ALBANY - Three primaries in the Buffalo area yesterday could help determine whether Democrats take control of the State Senate in January for the first time in more than 40 years, experts said. The Democrats hope to pick up one of the two seats needed to...

New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver weathered a challenge to his Democratic seat in lower Manhattan in Tuesday's legislative primaries that threw scares into some incumbents who have been in the Legislature for decades. With all precincts...

New York's legislative primaries, usually not terribly exciting, will be different on Tuesday. These intramural contests will help set the odds on whether Republicans will keep their decades-long rule in the Senate come November and show whether the...

ALBANY - Nearly 70 years of Republican domination of the State Senate could end after the fall elections - and with it would go Long Island's main power base in the Capitol since 1974. Democrats need to pick up only two seats to gain control of the 62-...

Local elected officials said they expected Lt. Gov. David Paterson to carry on much of the Spitzer agenda if he becomes governor, but hoped the city's concerns would get a more attention under his watch. "David is from New York, that means New York would...