Extras
Authorities from New York to Maine are prepping for another snowmageddon (AKA Nemo).
One casualty of the storm that has yet to hit: Saturday’s civil service exams.
Self-described GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone is mulling a run for governor of Florida on the libertarian line.
After signing the nation’s toughest gun control law, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a “Wiki Weapon” 3D printed high-capacity magazine named after him.
Is the Committee to Save New York officially defunct? It has received no contributions over the last six months.
“(T)his year’s campaign has a real chance of producing a Republican mayor – something that seemed far-fetched until very recently,” writes The New Republic’s Alex MacGillis, who is very bullish about Joe Lhota.
The man once known as “Congressman Kickass” (former Rep. John Sweeney) will host a radio talk show on TALK-1300AM.
There’s upheaval at the NYC Board of Elections, related entirely to Republican commissioners.
Chris Hayes who? Cuomo is doing well with primetime MSNBC hosts.
One of President Obama’s two nominees for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Todd M. Hughes, would become the first out gay appeals court judge in the country, if confirmed by Congress.
NYC Campaign Finance Board released a voters guide for the upcoming Feb. 19 special election for the 31st Council District. (Queens Sen. James Sanders’ old seat).
Someone purporting to be the late Albany Mayor Erastus Corning is on Twitter.
Rep. Bill Owens is confident the House Ethics Committee will ultimately determine his lobbying firm-funded Taiwan trip was just a mistake.
Sorry George Takei, The Donald really is against gay marriage.
CIA Director nominee John Brennan’s confirmation hearing was interrupted several times, and subsequently delayed, by protestors.
The Government Courts and Consumer Affairs Committee of the Oswego County Legislature held a special meeting this afternoon to consider a resolution calling for the repeal of the NY SAFE Act.
The Lena Dunham voting scandal continues. She insists she did, in fact, vote in the 2012 – and even flew home to NYC from Indian to do so, but cast an affidavit ballot.
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