Topic: Blair Horner

Gov. Cuomo says he wants to clean up Albany ethics and bring gay marriage to the state.. . It's not always easy for him to do both at the same...

Work halted on New York judges' luxury flats

ALBANY, N.Y., April 21 (Reuters Legal) - New York's financial woes have forced the state's Court of Appeals to halt the $23-million renovation of a former Catholic school into luxury apartments for judges."The project looked reasonable in more comfortable ...

Albany poised for rare early budget

It's like 1983 again at the state Capitol.. . Lawmakers started taking up budget bills on Tuesday night and hoped to finish all 14 pieces of...

Soda lobbyists spent $12.9 million

The fat tax had fat-cat special interests spending record-breaking lobbying bucks in Albany last year.. . Groups pumped $210.6 million into efforts...
The top campaign staffer for state Senate Democrats deliberately tried to hide the extent of the party's worsening debt, sources told the Daily...
A shocking number of scandal-scorched New York pols are using their campaign coffers as legal defense funds - tapping donors' dollars to battle...
Health care costs for the self-insured skyrocketed in New York City over the past year - and major help from so-called Obamacare may be years...

Teachable Moments in Good Government

ALBANYThere isn't much of a crowd at today's meeting of the State Senate's temporary rules reform committee, where members are hearing testimony from good-government advocates.Blair Horner, legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, spoke about ...

A NYPIRGer in Chief

ALBANYHere's another Obama first: first NYPIRG alum to become president.According to Legislative Director Blair Horner, Obama worked for a semester at the organization's City College branch in 1985, after he graduated from Columbia College. (He's the first Columbia ...

NYPIRG on Golisano's 'Murky' Political Plan

Blair Horner of the good-government group NYPIRG was just on Fred Dicker's Talk 1300 radio show, saying that Tom Golisano may " " Golisano, who pledged yesterday to put $5 million towards State Senate races, mainly in western New York, says he's ...