ALBANY—One of the Erie County Elections commissioners is calling on the State Board of Elections to investigate alleged improprieties of the "Responsible New York" PAC backed by Tom Golisano and Steve Pigeon.  read more »

Kathleen Grimm, the deputy chancellor for the city’s department of education, testified for two and half hours earlier today at a City Council budget hearing in City Hall.

The highlight was Grimm specifying where 476 proposed job cuts this year would come from.

The list:  read more »

ALBANY—The State Senate will reconvene here at the Capitol the night before David Paterson is expected to present his budget for 2009.  read more »

New York Fed President Timothy Geitner is almost certainly going to be Barack Obama's Treasury secretary.  read more »

Hillary Clinton's Senate office is not confirming that she is taking the secretary of state job, though they are adopting affirmative language on the record now, quibbling, lightly, only with the timing of the report.

"We’re still in discussions, which are very much on track. Any reports beyond that are premature," wrote Philippe Reines, a spokesman for Clinton in an email.

The Times is now reporting, according to two "confidants," that she's taking the secretary of state position.  read more »

Here’s a letter from Representative Dennis Kucinich and two other members of Congress, supporting Representative Ed Towns of Brooklyn to become the new chairman of the committee on Oversight and Government Reform.  read more »

Charles Barron may be hoping that the artwork removed from the Committee Room in City Hall will usher in some diversity on the walls.

But actually, it's just being restored.  read more »

Bill Richardson is reportedly a top contender for commerce secretary. [WP]  read more »

Here's Marist pollster Lee Miringoff explaining that the unpopularity of the term-limits extension has hurt the mayor’s numbers, but that there are bigger issues at play.

“If he loses, I assume it will be because of the economy,” he said.  read more »