President Obama is now urging lawmakers to approve “$50 billion in emergency aid to state and local governments, saying the money is needed to avoid “massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters” and to support the still-fragile economic recovery.” Thia information...

New York Governor David Paterson would not deny that he met with the White House political director Patrick Gaspard last Monday (according to the NY Daily News). Many democrats are calling for the Governor to step aside, he does face a difficuly uphill battle for election. He took over office after...