MIKE'S LEGACY IN JEOPARDY

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• SO, JUST WHO GAVE ORDERS FOR SPYING?

  March 29, 2008 - ALBANY County District Attorney David Soares' eyeball glazer of a re port on the Spitzer administration's apparent effort to off a political enemy concludes that the former governor probably...more >

• FECKLESS FRIENDS

  NEW GOV'LL FIND ALBANY LONELY

  March 18, 2008 - GOV. Paterson got a lot of applause at yesterday's convocation of the usual suspects in Albany - but his inaugural ovation was no longer, nor more enthusiastic, than that tendered for state...more >

• READING NEW HAMPSHIRE:

  'CHANGE' & CAUTION

  January 9, 2008 - IT'S easy to champion change, if one has no past - as the remarka ble, if perhaps unsustainable, ascendance of Sen. Barack Obama demonstrates. The very junior US senator from Illinois shot to...more >

• PAY HEED TO THIS WARRIOR STATESMAN

  September 11, 2007 - GEN. David H. Petraeus yes terday strode purpose fully into a Capitol Hill hearing room to the rattlesnake buzz of still-camera shutters and the muffled disapprobation of the ladies in pink T-shirts...more >

• MONUMENT TO THE PILE

  August 22, 2007 - THE Deutsche Bank building - tall, dark, forbidding and, in the end, deadly - was a Ground Zero afterthought right from the beginning. Shattered on 9/11, it was abandoned shortly thereafter and soon...more >

• THE NASCAR GOV

  SPARE US THE CHARM, ELIOT

  August 15, 2007 - WHY is everybody so surprised that Eliot Spitzer says he likes automobile racing? After all, for one NASCAR driver to win, all the others must lose. They drive in circles, have spectacular smash-ups...more >

• COMPANY TOWN

  SETTLING U.S. WAS A BIZ

  May 27, 2007 - SAVAGE KINGDOM: THE TRUE STORY OF JAMESTOWN, 1607, AND THE SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA
  BY BENJAMIN WOOLLEY
  HARPERCOLLINS, 469 PAGES, $27.50 HOW did America become America? "Chance was to...more >

• SYMPATHY FOR AUTHORS OF ATROCITY

  February 25, 2007 - CLINT Eastwood can make a movie, that's for sure, but who'd ever have thought that the creator of uber-tough-cop Dirty Harry Callahan would someday embrace the Rodney King "Can't We...more >

• ELIOT'S REVOLUTION

  ON DAY ONE, GOV SAYS THE RIGHT WORDS

  January 2, 2007 - One can only imagine what was running through George Pata ki's head yesterday afternoon as he sat in the damp and chill of an outdoors Albany afternoon in January and listened to the inaugural...more >

• ADVANTAGE: ALAN

  ALBANY STYMIES SPITZER

  December 15, 2006 - IS Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer overplaying his hand on Alan Hevesi? Spitzer's chief spokesman on Wednesday concluded an exchange of gibes with New York's casually corrupt comptroller thusly...more >