Though New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has not dropped his hat in the governor’s race yet, he already leads incumbent Governor David Paterson by nearly 60% in a recent poll by Siena Reseach Institute.
The wildly unpopular governor, who is currently pushing for massive budget cuts in Albany, does not appear to have a chance if he has to face Cuomo in a Democratic primary next year.
The news comes after Paterson spent half-a-million dollars on ads to promote his re-election campaign.
According to the poll, Paterson would even be defeated by largely unknown Republic …continue reading
 A fire broke out Wednesday afternoon in a six-story apartment building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, killing two children and one man.
The fire was reported at 12:27 p.m. on the top floor of the building. Fire fighters started to arrive four minutes later, and managed to get the fire under control at 12:57 p.m. Nearly 70 firefighters and 12 engine and ladder companies responded to the complaint.
The two children and adult were taken to Kings County Hospital in critical condition. They were later pronounced dead. Their names have not yet been released pending an investigation.
Authorities have not yet determined the cause of …continue reading
 Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch made a comment that blamed New York City’s problems on Governor David Paterson’s blindness, which, according to the billionaire, makes it hard for Paterson to “really know what’s going on.”
On Monday, while listening to speakers at a Wall Street Journal CEO conference about the problems facing New Yorker’s, Murdoch (who owns the New York Post, Wall Street Journal and Fox News), said: “The Senate, the State Assembly, totally incompetent, with a governor, who’s a very nice and honest man, who can’t, who’s blind, who can’t read Braille and doesn’t really know what’s going on.”
Murdoch said this …continue reading
While New York Governor David Paterson tries to convince the state legislature to cut $3.2 billion from the state budget, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg wants to cut an additional $1.7 billion from the city budget.
Mayor Mike has said that he wants to cut $500 million from this years budget and $1.2 from next year’s.
His plan would involve cutting 1.5% of the education budget, 2% from the “uniformed services” (i.e. cops, firefighters), and 4% from everything else this year.
Next year, the education system would have its budget cut by an additional 4%, …continue reading
While the United States frequently sends food and aid to improvised nations, the government has been ignoring the needs of the hungry here at home.
According to the Department of Agriculture, nearly 50 million people or one in every six Americans, went hungry last year. The rate went up more than four percent from what it had been in 2007.
The United States Department of Agriculture classified “going hungry” as not having enough food or resources for enough food to lead a healthy lifestyle.
Former presidential candidate and current Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has stated …continue reading
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