Thomas P. DiNapoli

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli volunteered Thursday to become the first statewide candidate to opt into a proposed public financing system that would begin with the 2010 election for comptroller. The Long Island Progressive Coalition and other good...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Gov. David Paterson has picked Democratic U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to fill New York's vacant U.S. Senate seat, an aide to the governor said early Friday, a day after Caroline Kennedy abruptly withdrew from consideration. Gillibrand,...

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, following a report in Newsday, has issued a release on his new voluntary fundraising limits. At the time of his selection as comptroller, he explicitly refused to commit to a ban on donations from people doing......

Attorney Carol Hoffman, who was stripped of nearly 15 years of pension credits last month after it was determined she???d been improperly listed as an employee of four Nassau County school districts, is moving on. Hoffman, 57, was a......

Maybe the Garden City law firm Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein can start sharing office space with the New York State executive branch. The resignation of Charles O???Byrne as Gov. David A. Paterson???s top gatekeeper on Friday made William......

Albany Bureau Chief JT Madore picks up two different takes on how an Obama presidency might affect NY: "Gov. David A. Paterson, a late supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton dropped her bid, told........

Earlier, Liz B at the Daily News put Rep. Nydia Velazquez' name on the map as "front runner" in the who-could-succeed-Hillary speculation contest should the state's junior senator leave her seat for the Obama administration. Gov. David Paterson, would.......

From James T. Madore of Newsday's Albany bureau: Gov. David A. Paterson will headline a big fundraiser for state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli on Dec. 4 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan. Tickets range from $500 for the cocktail reception......

Early chatter has begun about the future of Nassau County???s own Thomas DiNapoli, the Democratic state comptroller ??? whose governance role and sole trusteeship of the state???s enormous pension portfolio become especially important amid an epic...

by Frank James Caroline Kennedy has evidently decided she wants U.S,. Senate seat from New York to be vacated by Sen. Hillary Clinton who was chosen by President-elect BaracK Obama to be his secretary of State. This is not a......

Proposals to cheapen pensions for future New York City uniformed employees -- pushed this week by Gov. David A. Paterson at Mayor Michael Bloomberg???s urging -- are gaining their share of buzz on Long Island. Thousands of Nassau and......

Tom DiNapoli, after a good December, announces that he now has $888,553 on hand. He says: "I???ve tried to strike a balance. My focus during the past two years has been restoring credibility and public trust to the Office......