Editorials:
Albany's Night Crawlers
Sleazy is as sleazy does. That should be Albany's motto. While the public
was preoccupied with Iraq, impeachment and holiday shopping, state legislators
slithered up to Albany to give themselves a whopping 38% pay raise. As part
of their devil's bargain with Gov. Pataki, they also passed bills on charter
schools and higher milk prices.
Date: Monday, December 21, 1998, File Size: 24k |
Testing
the Waters
Gov. Pataki is weighing a run for national office, going so far as to huddle
secretly with national Republican operatives about what it would take to
mount a presidential campaign.
Date: Thursday, December 24, 1998, File Size: 24k |
Spotlight
on Politics: It's Freebie Time
Gov. Pataki and other incumbents are playing an election year version of
Supermarket Sweepstakes. They are showering voters with benefits worth millions,
from ski passes to grocery coupons to electric-bill refunds.
Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998, File Size: 26k |
In
Political Game, Kids are the Losers
Coach Steve Mandl emerged from George Washington
High School with an aluminum bat and a black shoulder bag of evidence concerning
our elected officials' true character in this season of fabulous baseball
and squalid politics.
Date: Sunday, October 11, 1998, File Size: 24k |
Rudy
Out of Step With Al & Pataki at Columbus Fete
Mayor Giuliani was stood up by Gov. Pataki
and Sen. Alfonse D'Amato yesterday at what the mayor had billed as a joint
appearance to begin the Columbus Day Parade.
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 1998, File Size: 24k |
Editorials:
What Price a Pay Raise?
Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver says state
legislators deserve a huge pay raise because they haven't had one in 10
years.
Date: Sunday, November 22, 1998, File Size: 24k |
Editorials:
Term Limits or No Raise
The devious march toward a legislative pay
raise picked up steam in Albany yesterday. The only man who can stop this
avaricious advance is Gov. Pataki. Instead, he is whetting the appetites
of those clamoring for more. Politics being the art of compromise, the governor's
willingness to negotiate is understandable. Yet he appears ready to settle
for less than he should. And for the wrong reasons.
Date: Tuesday, December 01, 1998, File Size: 24k |
Editorials:
Albany's Night Crawlers
Sleazy is as sleazy does. That should be Albany's motto. While the public
was preoccupied with Iraq, impeachment and holiday shopping, state legislators
slithered up to Albany to give themselves a whopping 38% pay raise. As part
of their devil's bargain with Gov. Pataki, they also passed bills on charter
schools and higher milk prices.
Date: Monday, December 21, 1998, File Size: 24k |
Testing
the Waters
Gov. Pataki is weighing a run for national
office, going so far as to huddle secretly with national Republican operatives
about what it would take to mount a presidential campaign.
Date: Thursday, December 24, 1998, File Size: 24k |
Editorials:
Gov Slices Big Apple
In his second inaugural address, Gov. Pataki
said, "New York must light the way to a brighter future for the nation."
Hopefully, he's not planning to provide light by setting fire to New York
City. The concern arises because in the last few weeks, Pataki has been
burning the city, or at least its money.
Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999, File Size: 24k |
Editorials:
Why Isn't New York First?
It may be known as the Second City, but in
terms of educational innovation, Chicago is fast becoming first in the nation.
New York educrats would do well to take inspiration from Chi-town's renewed
commitment to students' academic and social advancement.
Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998, File Size: 23k |
Chancellor's
on a Mission
Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew said he will beat
on doors in Albany and Washington for money to fix school buildings so that
no more city children die. In a wide-ranging, back-to-school interview with
the Daily News, Crew pledged to press state legislators, Gov. Pataki and
even President Clinton to help him get billions of dollars needed to repair,
maintain and build schools.
Date: Monday, September 28, 1998, File Size: 23k |
Gov
Hopeful Set to Put His Money Where His Mouth Is
One of America's richest men said yesterday
he would open his wallet to double his campaign war chest, setting the stage
for the priciest governor's race in New York State history. Thomas Golisano,
a megabucks Rochester businessman who is running for governor for the second
time, said he'll spend $20 million on his quest to unseat Republican Gov.
Pataki.
Date: Thursday, October 01, 1998, File Size: 20k |
Parole
Official Indicted
A veteran state Parole Board commissioner has been indicted on charges of
lying to a federal grand jury investigating the parole of an armed robber
whose father is a Pataki campaign supporter.
Date: Friday, October 09, 1998, File Size: 23k |
Editorials:
Bad News Is Good News for Kids
While covering the replacement of coal-burning furnaces in city schools,
Daily News reporter Nancie L. Katz stumbled into a crumbling brick wall
at Public School 91 in East New York, Brooklyn. She also found jagged holes
in the walls, falling plaster, exposed pipes and wires, soot, dust and asbestos.
The building was so fouled that students brought their own water from home
because fountains gushed brown fluid.
Date: Monday, October 12, 1998, File Size: 24k |
Vallone
Says he'll KO 'Fiscal Recklessness'
Gubernatorial candidate Peter Vallone yesterday
called for a sharp curb in state borrowing to stop Albany's "fiscal
recklessness." Vallone, the City Council speaker, also said he would
keep the Legislature in session "around the clock".
Date: Thursday, October 15, 1998, File Size: 20k |
The
Campaign Trail
The tobacco industry has puffed almost $400,000
into this year's campaigns for state offices, according to an analysis by
a coalition of health and civic groups.
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998, File Size: 20k |
Move
to Stop New Stadium May Strike Out, Vallone Sez
City Council Speaker Peter Vallone yesterday
said he may be powerless to stop construction of a Manhattan stadium for
the Yankees, as Gov. Pataki renewed his offer to improve the team's ballpark
in the Bronx.
Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998, File Size: 22k |
Vallone
Urges New Fund Reins
Gubernatorial candidate Peter Vallone yesterday
proposed sharp fund-raising limits on state campaigns, saying the current
system is "ridden with graft and corruption." In a speech at New
York University, the Democratic underdog lashed out at his GOP rival Gov.
Date: Friday, October 23, 1998, File Size: 22k |
Not
Debating Un-American, Says Vallone
Striking a patriotic note, Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Peter Vallone told voters yesterday that democracy is in danger
when moneyed politicians can refuse to debate.
Date: Friday, October 30, 1998, File Size: 21k |
Ads
Rap '80s Ethics
The brawling Senate candidates pounded each
other's ethics in a new round of scathing TV ads yesterday, as one of the
fiercest campaigns in state history barreled into its final weekend.
Date: Friday, October 30, 1998, File Size: 22k |
Feds
Charge Parole Official
A former state parole administrator was charged
yesterday with lying to a federal grand jury investigating the parole of
an armed robber whose father contributed to Gov. Pataki's campaign fund.
Date: Wednesday, November 25, 1998, File Size: 22k |
Pay
Raise OKd by Senate, Heads to Gov
Following the Assembly's lead, the state Senate
voted yesterday to raise legislators' salaries by 38%.
Date: Thursday, December
03, 1998, File Size: 21k |
Gov
Gets School Bid; Lawmakers Get Raise
After huddling for hours in closed-door negotiations,
state lawmakers said early today they had a deal with Gov. Pataki to allow
charter schools in New York in exchange for 38% pay raises for themselves.
Date: Friday, December
18, 1998, File Size: 23k |
Gov
Takes Oath for 2nd Term
With one eye on New York and another on the
national stage, Gov. Pataki was sworn in for a second term yesterday, oozing
optimism about the state's capacity for greatness but offering few details
about his agenda for the next four years.
Date: Saturday, January
02, 1999, File Size: 24k |
Less-Than-Gala
Celebration
When Republican boss William Powers boasted
at Gov. Pataki's splashy 1995 inaugural that "it doesn't get much better
than this," he didn't know how prophetic his words would be.
Date: Saturday, January
02, 1999, File Size: 23k |
CUNY
Big Rips Pataki & Giuliani
One of Gov. Pataki's trustees on the City University
of New York board yesterday accused him and Mayor Giuliani of political
interference in running the college system.
Date: Wednesday, January
06, 1999, File Size: 20k |
Gov,
Vallone Boast Union Roots at Rally
Gov. Pataki and his leading Democratic rival,
Peter Vallone, appeared together at a Union Square labor rally yesterday
in a possible preview of the general election race.
Date: Sunday, September
13, 1998, File Size: 22k |
Pataki
on Yanks Just Talk - Rudy
Mayor Giuliani yesterday chided Gov. Pataki
for playing politics with newly raised objections to a West Side stadium
for the Yankees ? but wrote it off as mere campaign rhetoric.
Date: Thursday, September
24, 1998, File Size: 21k |
Use
Whopping Surplus on Service, TA Urged
The Transit Authority is likely to finish 1998
with a hefty surplus, documents show ? leading to calls that the money be
spent to improve bus and subway service. It would be the second surplus
in as many years for the giant agency.
Date: Friday, September
25, 1998, File Size: 21k |
State
Big to Testify in Probe by Feds
Charles Gargano, Gov. Pataki's top economic
development official, has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand
jury investigating a $97 million contract awarded to a major Pataki campaign
donor.
Date: Wednesday, October
07, 1998, File Size: 21k |
Rudy
Blast Mars Gov Event
Mayor Giuliani yesterday unleashed a scathing
attack on the Rev. Calvin Butts just as Gov. Pataki was receiving the prominent
black minister's endorsement. Giuliani's assault marred what was supposed
to be a high point of Pataki's reelection campaign.
Date: Monday, October 12,
1998, File Size: 22k |
Gov:
I'll Nix Statehouse Raises
Gov. Pataki vowed yesterday to oppose any move
by state lawmakers to give themselves a pay hike next month after the election.
Date: Saturday, October
17, 1998, File Size: 21k |
Gov
a Bully - Vallone
Gubernatorial candidate Peter Vallone yesterday
accused Gov. Pataki and his GOP allies of threatening to retaliate against
potential donors to his campaign.
Date: Sunday, October 18,
1998, File Size: 22k |
The
Campaign Trail
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Peter Vallone
called Police Commissioner Howard Safir to complain that his campaign workers
were roughed up Saturday outside one of Gov. Pataki's campaign events.
Date: Monday, October 26,
1998, File Size: 20k |
Albany
Lawmakers Merit Raise, Silver Sez
Less than a week after Election Day, the state's
leading Democratic lawmaker is pushing for pay raises for legislators. Assembly
Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) threw his backing behind an effort
to hike the salaries of New York's 211 Assembly members and state senators.
Date: Tuesday, November
10, 1998, File Size: 21k |
Gov
OKs Fat Raises for Staff, Not Pols
Gov. Pataki, who vigorously opposes bigger
paychecks for lawmakers, has given fat raises to his own staff, records
show. Since taking office, Pataki has lifted the salaries of key staffers
by more than 20%.
Date: Sunday, November
29, 1998, File Size: 21k |
$40M
Spent on Gov Campaign
Gov. Pataki shelled out nearly $20 million
on his successful reelection campaign, part of a record $40 million spent
by the three major gubernatorial candidates, new financial records showed
yesterday.
Date: Wednesday, December
02, 1998, File Size: 21k |
Assembly
Votes Itself 38% Raise
Assembly members voted to hike their pay by
38% yesterday, and Senate leaders said they would do the same today. After
a flurry of afternoon activity, issues that seemed dead for months suddenly
emerged as linchpins in the deal-making over the first legislative pay hike
since 1989.
Date: Wednesday, December
02, 1998, File Size: 21k |
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