Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland)

Trying to figure out Gov. David Paterson???s end game has become an Albany pastime. But in this crisis it seems clear he is determined to push the month-long, first-of-its kind state Senate deadlock toward a resolution in court. And......

The Lighthouse Project in Uniondale has the blessing, in the temporal sense, of Bishop William Murphy, head of the Diocese of Rockville Centre. At the bishop???s request, co-developer and Islanders owner Charles Wang gave a presentation for parishoners...

The Stealth & Treachery Olympics progresses now into a new event. With wily parliamentarian Martin Connor, the former senator, on the floor, the Democrats claim that they have 32 votes because Republican Frank Padavan wandered through the chamber --......

Question of the day: What do we need a state Senate for, anyway? Parts of the political world are worried to the point of shrill, especially Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose Republicans, having carried off what looked to us like......

Tom Precious of the Buffalo News suggests that this standoff needs to be settled in Family Court. Pretty good idea. But politics equals business at the Capitol. So we're taking the state Senate story line in the direction of......

State and Suffolk Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay has added his voice to others calling for binding arbitration to break the Senate deadlock. "I'm absolutely in favor. It'll get the process moving, and it's a move in the right direction.......

And there were even dueling gavels in the room. Here's the latest dispatch from Mr. Madore: ALBANY ??? Chaos reigned in the State Senate today as rival leaders interrupted each other and recognized dueling presiding officers. Republican leader Dean...

Even for those following the bizarre state Senate deadlock into its third "work" week, it may go unnoticed: The power-sharing method used to displace Malcolm Smith as top official was floated more than six months before the June 8......

We elect district attorneys to enforce laws, not to decide who writes them. But prosecutions in Queens and the Bronx -- and perhaps Albany -- could end up shaping the outcome of the Great Senate War, if not the......

From opposite sides of the aisle, within the Long Island delegation: Sen. Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre), for now back in the saddle as majority leader, has on his to-do list for the Senate session a bill from Sen. Charles......

Justice McNamara, after repeated delays to allow the pols to settle the war among themselves, has thrown out the Democrats' lawsuit. That is, he voided their court action seeking to overturn last week's power play installing Sen. Dean Skelos (R-Rockville....

Call him Deadlock Dean, since he helped to take us to this point. Long before the savvy and influential Rockville Centre senator and lawyer engineered last week's surprise parliamentary coup, he happened to make an unprecedented 31-31 standoff possible......