With its two-seat majority in the balance, the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee is pouring its already stretched money into safe Democratic districts. The money went to State Sens. Shirley Huntley and Bill Perkins, who are facing primaries. Both represent districts that are overwhelmingly Democratic.

Bill de Blasio: “In the state of the city and in the inaugural speech he didn’t promise a lot. He came up with what I thought were some very good ideas, like merging ACS and DJJ and some

All candidates make them during campaign season, but most of the time they are forgotten after inauguration day, as 'new priorities,' in politician-speak, arise.

New York may have the highest labor enrollment of any state in the nation, but that does not make being a labor leader any easier these days. The movement is on the decline nationally. The economy still has not fully recovered and the city faces a multibillion-dollar deficit.

Kevin Sheekey is gone. Ed Skyler is going. Patti Harris is expected to follow soon enough'and that is just in the bullpen. The agencies have been going through their own turnover. And over on the Council side, there are 13 Council members who have been in office for just a few months.

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“If we were to replace 15 out of 40, you know, that’s not an unreasonable amount of turnover after eight years.” “The reason that people always say you can’t have a good third term is they try to do the same thing with the same people, and it’s very difficult to walk in, look a commissioner in the eye and say, ‘You know you have done great things, you’ve worked hard, you’ve done everything we’ve asked you, but it’s time to go.’ But that is what you have to do.”

At the beginning of December, City Hall published “All In The Family,” a five-part investigative series on www.cityhallnews. com about the Working Families Party. The Party was shown to actually have at least four different arms, enabling it to employ a web of for-profits and non-profits that take in and spend money beyond the rules generally governing political activity. A pay-for-influence arrangement in endorsements was revealed, along with the details of the Party’s lobbying operation, as was its method of paying workers outside of the labor laws the Party itself has championed.

There is a power vacuum in Albany. Who better to fill it than Michael Bloomberg? Not to suggest that Bloomberg run for governor next year—that trial balloon has thankfully drifted far, far away since its first implausible appearance in the aftermath of his failed presidential bid last year.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s election night party at the Sheraton was one that befit a billionaire. There were long lines to get in, guests were wanded, food and drink were brought around on trays.