The Democratic primary confronts race and gender issues.
Newsweek gets a piece of that storyline, too.
Rudy Giuliani’s campaign depends on Florida.
Today in New York, Hillary Clinton is attending a Martin Luther King, Jr., birthday celebration, organized by 32BJ and 1199.
Eliot Spitzer says New York City “won’t survive” without more affordable housing.
Spitzer also called providing affordable housing a “moral obligation.”
Andrew Cuomo weighs in on a gun rights case before the Supreme Court.
David Weprin wants congestion pricing to compliment, not replace, other streams of transit funding.
Melinda Katz and David Yassky have a lot of money for their comptroller campaigns.
Democratic state Senator Marty Connor referred to his challenger, Dan Squadron, as “a kid.”
Suffolk Democrats have a job retention program operating on Long Island.
John McCain chats with Newsweek.
John Heilemann of New York magazine writes, “Trust me when I tell you that I’ve learned my lesson when it comes to underestimating McCain.”
Jacob Gershman, noting Spitzer barely mentioned hospitals or campaign finance reform in his state of the state speech last week, writes, “The muzzled approach suggests Mr. Spitzer has misunderstood the source of his problems.”
Errol Louis writes that debating whether remarks from Clinton’s campaign against Barack Obama are racist or just “run-of-the-mill political garbage” is pointless: “As if it makes a difference to the victim.”
Bill Kristol, writing, in case you forgot, in The New York Times, wants Democrats to acknowledge that the troop surge in Iraq is working.
A New York Post editorial celebrates anti-war protesters who won the right to rally on Central Park’s Great Lawn by saying, “even disgusting people have rights.”
The Daily News thinks Tom DiNapoli is unfairly auditing charter schools, which get less state aid than other entities DiNapoli could investigate.
London has a fun mayoral contest.
And a blogger endorses a Barack Obama-Michael Bloomberg ticket for 2008.
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