If you weren't around in the 1980's, it's kind of hard to imagine the scare that HIV-AIDS created. Nearly everyone began checking and rechecking their sexual partners.
Someone you hadn't seen in a while suddenly shows up at a bar looking...

Almost every state in the country is either already in the red or heading in that direction. Governors are meeting today in Philadelphia to plan how to approach the Obama administration for their own bailouts.
Everything is on the cutting...

It's fair to say that the D&C takes its share of knocks around the City newsroom; we gloat when we scoop them and bitch and make lame excuses when they scoop us. We laugh, like the liberal-elitist-intellectuals we are accused of being, at...

It's tough to get laughs out of flood insurance. But US Senator Chuck Schumer gave it a try.
The senator was in Gates today to draw attention to the plight of residents who are getting socked with fees between $400 and $800 for mandatory flood...

With no big controversy to draw out crowds of people, last night's hearing on the proposed 2009 county budget was relatively tame.
Last year, residents turned out in droves to protest a now-defunct plan to reduce the amount of sales-tax revenue...

It's taken awhile, but Democrats have finally brought out the big gun - the one that I've been waiting for - to counter County Executive Maggie Brooks' budget proposal: a financial control board.
"We must change the way the county is managing...

There's no real connection between Midtown Plaza and the colossal problems facing Detroit automakers. But something Mayor Bob Duffy said in an interview several months ago resonates.
After hearing so many people romanticize the glory days of...

"We're about to spend the next six hours in an exercise in futility."
That was Majority Leader Dan Quatro's opening salvo last night as legislators prepared to debate, and ultimately pass, the county budget. (It was approved 15 to 14, with...

Over much of the last 30 years, the majority of us have been willing to turn the reign of government over to someone else while we enjoyed our double decaf lattes and spent Saturday afternoons shopping.
Beginning with the Reagan administration...

What on earth is Barack Obama thinking?
The president-elect has chosen Rick Warren, the mega-church preacher and author of "The Purpose Driven Life," to give the invocation at his inauguration.
We shouldn't just shrug this off as an...

In her quest for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, Caroline Kennedy is reaching out to Upstate New York.
She took an Upstate tour yesterday, dropping in on mayors and Democratic Party leaders in Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo.
In Rochester, she...

While most of the media chewed on the nuances of President-elect Obama's careful choice of words concerning any possibility of his staff's interaction with radioactive Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, it's the selection of preacher Rick...

Monroe County Legislator Willie Lightfoot called his friend and fellow barber Vincent Dotson a "gentle giant" who was trying to make a difference. (see a 2005 story that City Newspaper did on Dotson and other city barbers.)
Lightfoot held a...