For Lieutenant Gov. David A. Paterson, helping the State Police's current recruitment drive was a personal decision. "When I first moved to Albany, I roomed with a State Trooper," he said, referring to his early days as a State Senator beginning in the mid-1980s. "I learned a lot about how the St... More...

Home day-care providers voted to join the United Federation of Teachers last week by an overwhelming 99-percent approval margin. About 30 percent of the eligible 28,000 workers returned their mail ballots and voted 8,382 to 96 to become UFT members, concluding the city's largest unionization driv... More...

A panel of five powerful women last week tried to rescue the substance of the word "feminism" from the dustbin of politically unacceptable rhetoric. Speakers at a morning forum held at New York University's Wagner Graduate School expounded upon the difference between men and women in elected offi... More...