Bob Hennelly

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Among the top Paterson administration officials to step down this week was State Police Superintendent Harry Corbitt. He resigned after confirming that state troopers assigned to Gov. David Paterson had interfered in a domestic violence dispute involving a top aide to the governor when they ...

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A top political advisor to Mayor Michael Bloomberg is leaving City Hall. Deputy Mayor for Government Affairs Kevin Sheekey will step down this spring to work for Bloomberg LP, the mayor's private media company.

Sheekey was responsible for advancing the city's agenda in Albany and Washington. ...

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In his first appearance since he abandoned his campaign to be elected to a full four-year term, Gov. David Paterson told a crowd of business leaders in midtown that the state's most pressing problem was another looming cash crunch.

Paterson said that while next year's $8 ...

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The fallout continues from a New York Times report that Gov. David Paterson and members of his state police security detail had contact with a woman pursuing an order of protection against one of the governor's top aides. A former girlfriend of close aide David ...

An independent commission is raising a warning flag about the cost of the city's capital construction campaign.

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This week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg decided to withdraw $5 billion of his fortune from the Quadrangle Group, an investment firm founded by his close friend Steven Rattner. The company is the subject of an ongoing criminal probe by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. The ...

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An independent commission is raising a warning flag about the cost of the city's capital construction campaign.

The Citizens Budget Commission recommends slowing the pace of the city's big ticket construction projects because of the rising cost of financing them. The city's planning a new ...

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The national Tea Party movement is making local waves in New Jersey's 7th Congressional District. WNYC's political reporter Bob Hennelly has more.

REPORTER: This June, Republican Congressman Leonard Lance will have to fend off two Tea Party challengers: David Larsen and Bruce Baker. Farleigh Dickinson University's ...

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With his poll and campaign cash numbers lagging, a resolute Gov. David Paterson kicks off his campaign for a full term tomorrow.

The governor's day starts in Hempstead with a rally at Hofstra University, where he graduated from law school. Then later, it's on to another ...

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Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says his department will start videotaping police interrogations in two precincts as a pilot project this year.

Rebecca Brown with the Innocence Project, a public policy group that works to exonerate the wrongfully convicted, says a survey of 238 jurisdictions ...

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A well-crafted press conference featuring State Sen. Pedro Espada, a Bronx Democrat, nearly was upended by opponents representing tenant rights groups.

Espada was flanked by nearly a hundred people on the steps of City Hall Wednesday ...

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City officials are defending their $200 million-a-year estimate to hold 9/11 terror trials in Lower Manhattan. On Sunday, Vice President Joe Biden questioned that figure.

Bloomberg today called the estimate "reasonable." He says the Obama administration didn't dispute that price tag before, and even included the ...

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New York City has seen a 46 percent jump in payouts to settle claims against the NYPD.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's preliminary Management Report says the city paid out more than $117 million in fiscal year 2009, compared to $80 million in 2008. The complaints against the ...

Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed the New York State Senate for documents relating to community groups that received state money at the request of Senate President Malcolm Smith.

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As Obama Administration officials appeared to revive the idea of using a military tribunal to try self-proclaimed 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators, New York City residents packed a City Council hearing yesterday to give testimony on the potential impact of a ...

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Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed the New York State Senate for documents relating to community groups that received state money at the request of Senate President Malcolm Smith. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.

REPORTER: The subpoena asks for several years of paperwork for state money directed to ...

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Governor Paterson took to the airwaves last night to fend off rumors about his personal life appearing on CNN's Larry King Live before a national audience.

PATERSON: I've already denied these charges in several media outlets and I think that every time I even address these ...

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is freezing $1.6 billion in state aid as part of an effort to close a $2.2 billion deficit. At a joint legislative session, Christie told lawmakers that the freeze, by executive order, includes withholding $475 million in state aid to ...