Sarah Kate Kramer

The top dog in New York is the leader of a very large pack -- and a lot of barking is letting loose by those vying to be part of team-Cuomo. The governor-elect has been on the politic...

Who is against more green energy, technology, or green jobs, or putting America back to work? -Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Senator-elect on why he's hopeful the gridlock will br...

My obligation is to New Yorkers. Not to a governor, not to my party, not to anybody else. -Thomas DiNapoli, New York State Comptroller, on The Brian Lehrer Show.

Ruben Wills, 39, a young political insider who worked for State Sen. Shirley Huntley, was elected City Council Member in a special election in Queens' District 28 on Tuesday. Wills beat out six other candidates to take the seat formerly held by Councilman Thomas White, Jr. who died in August.

It's the day after Andrew Cuomo was elected Governor of New York State, and New Yorkers are hoping he'll hit the ground running. On the Brian Lehrer Show, listeners flooded the phones...

In what turned out to be one of the closest races in New York State, in the wee hours of the morning, Democrat Thomas DiNapoli narrowly beat Wall Street mogul Harry Wilson and retained his seat in the State Comptroller's office.

Sen. Charles Schumer says, "the best is yet to come."

"There's interesting conflict on the environmental side, between local people here in the city and in Albany, and in the national environmental groups mostly headquartered in Washingt...

On the national and state level, this political season has been rich enough in terms of outlier candidates and weird political shenanigans, but the local race in City Council District 28 (Queens) also has a cast of characters worth noting. They're all running in the non-partisian special election for City Council Member on November 2, due to the death of Councilman Thomas White, Jr. this August.

"What these guys were trying to do was stop runaway global warming−not to be dramatic about it—but something that affects the future of mankind, right? And you get into these negotiat...

Candidates aren't the only choices voters will have to make on the (increasingly confusing) New York ballot. Term limits, one of the most controversial legacies of Mayor Bloomberg, are back with a vengence—do you support reimposing a two term limit on city elected officials?  Plus, you'll need to say yay or nay to a seven-tiered proposal to revise the City Charter.

As Election Day draws closer, immigrant advocacy organizations are ramping up their "get out the vote" campaigns.

We're a manufacturing city. If we ever cease to be that we will begin to die. And we are ceasing, we're losing jobs. We can get them back, but only as we understand that is the first ...

I think the Democratic party nationwide represents clearly the left, and I think the Republican party nationwide clearly represents the right, both on economic  and social issues...

Barack Obama and his administration are now put in the uncomfortable position of defending the constitutional issue of the same policy that they would like to see repealed. So you hav...

There's icing on the cake this year for the political party that takes control over the state legislature: the power to redraw districts for the State Senate, State Assembly and U.S...

It is absolutely fair to say that both parties bear some blame for being seduced by the notion that Wall Street and banks could effectively regulate themselves. 700 years of financial...

"When you build a bridge, when you build a canal, when you build a railroad, when you build the Hoover Dam in the 30s, when you look at all the infrastructure that was done, when yo...