The NYC Charter Revision Commission has issued some recommendations that should be on the ballot this November. If adopted, they will impos...

From the Daily News : A candidate for City Council speaker has drafted a bill to extend term limits for the Council to three terms. Coun...

From the Times Ledger : Queens activists and lawmakers are divided over a bill from City Councilman Daniel Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) that ...

From the Gotham Gazette : At a hearing of the City Council's Committee on Governmental Operations Thursday, issues of community board ...

From an Op Ed by Danny Dromm : In the City Council, members are limited to two four-year terms. Why shouldn’t community board members also...

From Gotham Gazette : The New York City Council will once again see a bill on term limits introduced, although this one is not likely to b...

It appears that someone was sloppy at the Times Ledger. If I ran the Avery campaign, I'd request a correction. Here's the original...

From the Queens Chronicle : A resolution wending its way though the City Council could send a seismic wave through community boards throug...

From the Times Ledger : After campaigning his way to Albany on pledges to push for longer legislative terms and limiting lawmakers’ time i...

From the Huffington Post : Former New York Gov. George Pataki (R) criticized Washington politicians who seek to “stay here forever and say...

From the Daily News : In an office near New York City Hall, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn convened a secret meeting of key Council ...

From the NY Times : In the Bayside section of Queens, a volunteer had barely begun her sales pitch for Christine C. Quinn’s mayoral campai...

From the Daily News : Unleashing passions that still burn today, the City Council voted in 2008 to allow New York officials to run for thr...

From the Daily News : The Brooklyn crowd erupted in boos Wednesday night when frontrunner Quinn fielded a question about having helped pav...

From The Politicker : Assemblyman Rory Lancman, who lost a Democratic primary to Congresswoman-elect Grace Meng earlier this year and decl...

From the Daily News : Assembly approval of a taxpayer-funded settlement in the Vito Lopez sexual harassment scandal has spurred a renewed ...

From the NY Times : New Yorkers are having second thoughts about Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s third term. As for a fourth term? No thanks. W...

From the Daily News : Legislation passed in 2007, Local Law 34, lowered the maximum political contributions from those doing business with t...

From the NY Times : Michael R. Bloomberg was testifying this month about his diamond-encrusted campaigns, but he might as well have been tal...

From the NY Post : There always has been something very strange about the Manhattan trial involving $1.2 million of Mayor Moneybags’ fortune...