“Denial is not a life strategy.”

Jennifer Cunningham is leaving the lobbying business to avoid “even the appearance” of conflicts with the Cuomo and Schneiderman administrations.

Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo said legislators “failed” New Yorkers by failing to close the $315 million mid-year budget deficit.

Cuomo’s pay-to-play state pension fund probe was partially behind Steven Rattner’s heretofore unexplained decision to leave his post as the Obama administration’s car czar in 2009.

The governor-elect just wants to be friends with the Assembly Democrats.

NYC Schools Chancellor Cathie Black spent part of her first day on the job reading to first graders.

Mayor Bloomberg was with Black during her visit to a Bronx school. The man to whom she owes thanks for her waiver was not.

Black is putting the whole waiver controversy behind her, saying: “That was yesterday.”

Christine O’Donnell hopes Hillary Clinton runs for president.

Bloomberg made Foreign Policy’s “100 Top Global Thinkers” cover.

The WFP opposes a special election to replace LG-elect Bob Duffy as Rochester mayor.

Rep. Charlie Rangel and his allies are still hoping to overturn the ethics committee’s censure recommendation.

US Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara’s insider trading investigation could make or break his career.

FOX News finds voter fraud in NY-1, the country’s last remaining undecided congressional race.

Anti-hydrofracking advocates are very pleased with the Legislature.

Hugo Chavez thinks Clinton should resign over the latest WikiLeaks document dump.

A nine-month Pentagon study found repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” would have very little – if any – impact on the military.

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