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All these years later does anyone doubt that the botched emergency response to Hurricane Katrina was a horror show?

With corpses floating in flooded streets and people trapped on rooftops days after the levees broke flooding New Orleans, emergency help and later federal aid to rebuild was extraordinarily slow in coming. The clueless response to one of the deadliest and costliest natural disasters...

Congress is primed to chip away at money set aside to treat and compensate people who got sick after clearing debris at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan.

In the name of deficit reduction $38 million will be trimmed next year from programs created by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. The money is a portion of $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts Congress agreed to in 2011 to end...

Student journalists so used to sharing and receiving information via social media got a reality check from someone of their own generation Monday night at Stony Brook University. 

Sara Ganim, the reporter who broke the Penn State pedophilia scandal and won a Pulitzer Prize this year at age 24, told students that she “did not get a single lead or a single important tip via Twitter.”

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Here we go again.

After Democrats on the Westchester County Board of Legislators rejected County Executive Rob Astorino's efforts to create a local development corporation to fund the capital projects of nonprofit organizations, Astorino is going it alone.

In a familiar narrative, the Republican county executive this week said he doesn't need the board's sign-off and will move forward...

The corruption parade in Albany goes on--and shows no signs of ending soon. Now lobbyist Richard Lipsky has been sentenced to three months in prison--a very light term--for political corruption.

By comparison, former Sen. Carl Kruger, the figure at the heart of the case, drew a seven-year sentence. True, Lipsky is not a public official, but that doesn't seem to have been the major reason why...

Brooklyn is back! Barclays Center made its debut last weekend with three Jay-Z sellout crowds in the 18,000-seat arena at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, just across from the Long Island Rail Road’s Atlantic Terminal. Spotlights searched the heavens. Crowds surged in on mass transit, and traffic didn’t snarl. The NBA's Brooklyn Nets are now waiting in the wings, and to hear some Brooklynites tell...