Outgoing Education Commissioner Richard Mills, whose dead hand has lain across public education in the Empire State for the past 14 years, takes issue with Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's...more >

Gov. Paterson yesterday delivered his first State of the State Address - a rightly gloomy report that offered scant grounds to think he's on the correct track to making things right. "...more >

Talk about a waste of money: The city Health Department just put out a $3 million contract to buy anti-smoking ads on phone kiosks. Such ads already are ubiquitious: New Yorkers can hardly...more >

January 7, 2009 - Add one more atrocity to the blood- soaked history of Hamas: Yesterday, the cowardly brotherhood managed to kill dozens of Palestinian civilians at a UN school in Gaza. And it used Israeli armor...more >

January 7, 2009 - Money manager and GMAC chairman Ezra Merkin fed nearly $1.8 billion of his private clients' cash into Bernie Madoff's Ponzi game - but then Washington turned right around and handed him...more >

January 7, 2009 - Ground Zero's hapless bureaucrat-in-chief is finally on his way out - from one of his jobs, at least. Spitzer appointee Avi Schick steps down this week as Downstate president of the Empire...more >

January 6, 2009 - It's not often that you hear about hospitals scamming the public, but The Post's Carl Campanile yesterday reported at least seven in New York that have been accused of doing just that. ...more >

January 6, 2009 - Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez fashions himself as many things: statesman, revolutionary and sworn enemy of American "imperialism," to name a few. But how about as Santa Claus? ...more >

January 6, 2009 - "If you're in your apartment, and some emotionally disturbed person is banging on your door, screaming, 'I am going to come through this door and kill you,' do you want us to...more >

January 5, 2009 - Well, that didn't take long. Not two weeks after Gov. Paterson signed a new law to get tough on Indian buttlegging, an upstate judge last month issued a temporary injunction blocking its...more >

January 5, 2009 - Israeli ground forces knifed into Gaza over the weekend - a reluctant action, to be sure, and one fraught with strategic risks. But, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his citizens, "there...more >

January 5, 2009 - Let's hope state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's look at charitable fund-raising bears fruit. Cuomo last week reported that barely 39 cents of every dollar raised by telemarketers in New...more >

January 4, 2009 - OK, maybe New York's looming $15 billion budget deficit isn't that bad: The federal government's now on pace for a trillion-dollar black hole. The Treasury Department revealed...more >