New Yorker and former Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan is reportedly President Obama’s US Supreme Court pick.

Kagan is sustaining fire from the left.

Dick Grasso says he might run against his old nemesis, Eliot Spitzer, should Spitzer run for something.

Two suspicious packages that caused the evacuation of Times Square turned out to contain little more than books and bottled water.

Here’s the latest list of NYC civil service employees and their salaries (as of April 1).

Rick Lazio’s campaign manager Kevin Fullington is giving YouTube briefings, albeit not recently.

A rules change could enable Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy to get onto the GOP ballot without getting 50-plus-one percent at the state convention.

The Times has made changes in its City Hall bureau.

Mayor Bloomberg accidentally criticized Sen. Scott Brown.

Tricia Nixon Cox (state GOP Chairman Ed Cox’s wife) attended a Mother’s Day event hosted at the White House by First Lady Michelle Obama.

Sean Coffey is hosting a “Coffee with Coffey” campaign fundraiser for lawyers.

Sen. Craig Johnson, who lost his mother to breast cancer, recorded a public service announcement encouraging women to get screened.

Lloyd Blankfein pledged to rebuild Goldman’s tarnished reputation.

GOP US Senate hopeful David Malpass released a video touting his endorsement by John Faso.

The Brooklyn Conservative Party endorsed Bruce Blakeman for US Senate.

The RGA is on the attack against GOP consultant John Weaver, who is working for Chris Cox’s congressional campaign.

The state Democratic and GOP parties traded barbs over the sentencing of former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.