From the Times Ledger : Longtime state Sen. Frank Padavan died, according to an announcement from the Queens County GOP Tuesday morning. P...

From the Queens Chronicle : A scathing report issued by the New York State Inspector General’s Office blasts actions taken by the Indian C...

From NY1 : The city's districting commission, charged with redrawing the lines that make up the 51 City Council districts, voted to wi...

From Crains : Commissioners who unanimously approved new City Council district lines last week were not provided with maps showing last-mi...

From the Times Ledger : State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) has two less challengers after Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Whitestone) decided to run i...

From Douglaston Patch : Having deferred Congressional ambitions, State. Sen. Tony Avella, D-Bayside, announced on Monday that he will run to...

From the NY Post : A Manhattan judge has backed state investigators who are trying to get to the bottom of a controversial deal to sell stat...

From the Queens Chronicle : At its Monday meeting Community Board 13 voted against a plan by a nonprofit group to construct two large apartm...

From the Times Ledger : The Queens lawmaker who has one of the most clearly contorted boundary lines in the borough wants to take redistrict...

From the Times Ledger : An Indian group proposing senior housing and a cultural center on the ground of Creedmoor was grilled on its plans b...

From the Queens Chronicle : Former state Sen. Frank Padavan and City Councilman Mark Weprin (D-Oakland Gardens), both supported the Indian C...

From the NY Post : Members of the Indian cultural group, including Koshy and Sanu Thomas, went to Padavan and pitched a community center to ...

From the NY Post : State leaders went out of their way to push through a controversial land deal -- which robbed taxpayers of millions of do...

From the NY Post : Two legislators who backed the 2009 sale of 4.5 acres of Creedmoor land to [The Indian Community and Cultural Center of F...

According to NY1, Tony Avella has defeated Frank Padavan. In other less surprising news, Queens voters returned the rest of the tired crap ...

From the Times Ledger : The race between state Sen. Frank Padavan (R-Bellerose) and former City Councilman Tony Avella is not as tight as so...

From the Times Ledger : Crime is an issue in all city parks, but College Point Park has long seen a relatively low rate of incidents. That s...

From the Times Ledger : A controversial catering hall in Floral Park that has drawn the ire of neighbors for its customers’ rowdy antics was...

From City Hall : In his attempt to hold off former New York City Council Member Tony Avella this year, State Sen. Frank Padavan will have th...

Mayor Bloomberg has actively intervened to thwart a modest, palliative "greening" of solid-waste-by-rail operations. The Mayor opp...