With Spitzer out of the picture the ball is in Bruno's court There is optimistic speculation that the unexpected ascension of David Paterson to the governor’s office in Albany will actually facilitate the process of dealing with both the details of legislation that would conclude the matter of the...

Life in the cradle of political pathos is never quite serene. It goes from one potentially chaotic doomsday scenario to the next, sometimes, as is now the case, week to week. The lawmakers of New York blinked last week when faced with a shutdown of racing at Aqueduct and finally fashioned an agreement...

While his many fans observed a reflective, perhaps mournful anniversary, a year to the day after the death of the most celebrated thoroughbred in recent memory, it was announced on Tuesday that the cremated remains of what was once Barbaro will be buried outside Gate 1 at Churchill Downs, where he won...