Metropolitan Transportation Authority

The uproar over special perks for the transit system???s corporate elite intensified June 18 when Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member David S. Mack of Kings Point walked over to the press section during a break at a meeting to defend......

The State Senate's lightning-quick election this week of Dean Skelos as majority leader prompted a standard wave of verbal salutes and fond greetings from prominent labor union officials. From the AFL-CIO to the Civil Service Employees Association, top...

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...

Allen Cappelli, a former consultant to New York City builders and longtime Democratic strategist, has been tapped by Gov. David Paterson for the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, subject to state Senate confirmation. He'd replace the...

Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, this minute's ???front-runner??? for the U.S. Senate seat which is now the subject of a competitive reality show, won in a heavily GOP Congressional district in 2006 for the first time, a seat that had been......

Part of the 68-count federal indictment pending against former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno describes unions, with business before the state Legislature, investing funds with a financial adviser that paid Bruno ???advisory fees??? totalling $1.37...

Nine years ago, in collaboration with state officials, the mighty investment company Bear Stearns played a special role in shaping the course on which the region???s transit system now finds itself. Not only did this financial titan advise the......

Certain portions of the business class and Manhattan-based car-haters won't give up in the view of citizen activist Henry Stern, former city parks commissioner and councilman, who says of the prospect of tolls at the East River and Harlem......

For Gov. David A. Paterson, the question simply seems to have been: Why NOT move for a same-sex marriage bill? He'd promised to do it. He supported the concept as a Manhattan lawmaker. His poll numbers have little place......

Senate Democrats may have sent direct mail into the districts of veteran Republican incumbents, but the Senate GOP minority is already scouting for contenders to take on freshman Brian Foley in 2010. Local GOP sources say GOP Senate officials......

The idea of charging drivers based on how and where they drive has popped up again in New York City largely because of a man named Jay H. Walder, the newly appointed chairman and chief executive of the Metropolitan Transportation......

Maybe it was too nice out to protest. Or maybe no one cared what a few hundred conservatives were talking about in this one-party state. But only about 10 people convened Saturday with signs outside the DoubleTree Hotel in Annapolis to oppose Pamela...