Hempstead

9 a.m. A media forum on green affordable housing will take place at the Offices of Jonathan Rose Companies, 551 Fifth Ave.

10 a.m. A hearing on the motion to vacate the conviction of Carmine Carini will take place at Brooklyn State Supreme Court, 320 Jay St.

11 a.m. Brooklyn Post Office unveils new Black Heritage Ella Fitzgerald stamp at the Magnet School of Humanities in Brooklyn.

11 a.m. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly honors students and NYPD officers at New York Cares Winter Warmth Awards at One Police Plaza.

11 a.m. CUNY hosts the Workers' Rights Hearing Board on behalf of TV and film industry parking production assistants at 25 West 43rd St.

11:30 a.m. Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi announces a joint downtown revitalization plan with Hempstead at Hempstead Village Hall in Long Island.

Noon. Transportation Alternatives discusses the parking problem in Park Slope at Seventh Avenue and 3rd Street.

Noon. Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards meets with the Community Service Society of New York and Local 32BJ at Baruch College, 151 East 25th St.

6 p.m. The Israeli Consulate co-hosts a Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn.

6 p.m. New York City Councilman John Liu hosts a young professionals mixer at the Red Sky Lounge, 47 East 29th St.

6:30 p.m. The New York State Bar Association holds a free seminar on legal issues related to pets at the Cardozo Law School, 55 Fifth Ave.

7 p.m. Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum holds a community forum on education at the Queens Borough Public Library in Jamaica.

7 p.m. Community Board 2 will hold a public meeting on landmarking at 43-31 39th St. in Sunnyside, Queens.

7 p.m. A panel on campaign finance reform featuring Warren Rudman, former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, Michael Waldman, director of the Brennan Center for Justice, Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen and Costas Panagopoulos, director of the graduate program in Elections and Campaign Management at Fordham University will be moderated by New School president Bob Kerrey at The New School, 66 West 12th Street.

7:30 p.m. The Film & Education Research Academy at Teachers College holds a screening and critique of Al Gore's documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, at the Cowin Auditorium at Columbia University.

Eliot Spitzer hosts his first cabinet meeting in Albany.

Joe Biden campaigns in New Hampshire.

-- Gillian Reagan

A Democratic source in Nassau just told me that the local Democrats have settled on North Hempstead Town Clerk Michelle Schimel to replace Tom DiNapoli in the Assembly. -- Azi Paybarah

So that's where he's been getting all his great material.

From John Spencer's acceptance speech moments ago in Hempstead:

Dick Morris gave me good line. You can ask any ten year-old in New York State what Hillary Clinton wants to do, and they'll tell you she wants to be president.

Last Friday, we solicited your magic eight-ball readings about how the the voting would shake out at the two state conventions starting today in Buffalo and Hempstead. After sifting through the comments and emails (and inevitable campaign season spin), three popular themes seemed to emerge: Faso will win the Republican nomination by a hefty margin, though Weld will still get on the ballot; Cuomo will win the Democratic one; and Joe Bruno will have the best hair. Beyond that, you, our readers, were in less agreement.

Some predicted that Mark Green would get his 25 percent, but at least two suggested that he would fall short of the magical number. A few speculated that the gap between Green and O'Donnell was narrower than generally assumed, and one reader claimed to have heard that Cuomo was actually closer to 40 percent, while Green was around 10 percent but trailing O'Donnell and King in state committee votes than him.

Or maybe we're just deluding ourselves. In the words of one skeptical reader: "Yawn. The convention is pre-ordained."

Please let us know what you're hearing today.

-- Lizzy Ratner