Post State Editor Fredric Dicker is the dean of the Capitol press corps, having covered state government for three decades and he has won every major New York journalism award for his work. Fred has worked at a total of seven newspapers and three television stations. Raised in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, he earned a B.A. in history from Long Island University, an M.A. in history from the University of Mass., and attended Brandeis University for a PhD in American Civilization but withdrew to "focus on the present, and not the past,'' as he likes to say.
Gov. Paterson is ready to make the lives of state lawmakers "miserable" over the next three weeks in an effort to avoid having the latest state budget in history, a source close to the governor told The Post yesterday....
July 26, 2010 12:00 AMSome top New York City business lead ers, fearful that the leftist Working Families Party has brought the state the most anti-business government ever, are considering the formation of a "527" organization to back pro...
July 19, 2010 12:00 AMRepublican gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio faces two key deadlines Thursday, either of which could signal the end of his long-shot hope of defeating Andrew Cuomo. First, Lazio, a Wall Street lobbyist and former...
July 12, 2010 12:00 AMAndrew Cuomo and his GOP challengers are splitting sharply on the hotly contested question of building a mosque near Ground Zero, even as they're in surprising agreement on the need to cut taxes and spending....
July 05, 2010 12:00 AMALBANY -- Now that he's been out maneuvered and humiliated by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in the crucial struggle for a new budget, Gov. Paterson has no choice but to declare war on the man who has long personified...
June 29, 2010 12:00 AMAssembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's last-ditch ef fort today to derail Gov. Paterson's budget cuts and reform agenda may fall victim to nervous Senate Democrats, who fear a voter backlash, sources said late yesterday....
June 28, 2010 12:00 AMNot only has Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch refused to join Gov. Paterson at public budget meetings with the leaders of the Legislature, he has also refused to attend the governor's official Cabinet meetings. That's the...
June 21, 2010 12:00 AM
LT. Gov. Richard Ravitch -- picked for his job by Gov. Paterson nearly a year ago because of his financial expertise -- is "boycotting" state budget meetings because his ideas have been rejected, The Post has learned....
June 14, 2010 12:00 AM
If state lawmakers think today's vote on slashing hundreds of millions of dollars in health-care spending from the state budget is a tough one, wait until next Monday. It'll only get worse. That's the message from...
June 07, 2010 12:00 AM
ALBANY -- Rick Lazio dealt a bitter blow to Steve Levy and Ed Cox at yesterday's Republican nominating convention, but he handed Andrew Cuomo another big boost in his seemingly unstoppable race for governor. Levy,...
June 03, 2010 12:00 AM
State Republican Party insiders are holding their col lective breath to see if GOP Chairman Ed Cox can deliver 50.1 percent of the vote at Wednesday's convention in order to get Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy on...
May 31, 2010 12:00 AMALBANY -- A "seismic shift" away from Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the longtime Democratic power broker in the Legislature, is expected as a result of Andrew Cuomo's announcement that he's running for governor,...
May 24, 2010 12:00 AMALBANY--There has never been anyone better prepared to be governor than Andrew Cuomo, and if you speak to people close to the 52-year-old attorney general, the word "destiny" is often heard. He's become the state's...
May 23, 2010 12:00 AMAndrew Cuomo is about to weigh in on the seemingly intractable bitter state budget battle between Gov. Paterson and the Legislature, and he will tell Democratic lawmakers, who are nervously eyeing the November...
May 17, 2010 12:00 AMAngered by Mayor Bloom berg's "hypocrisy" over the state and city budgets and his repeated recent "insults," Gov. Paterson is warning that he is ready to fight back. "Mayor Bloomberg is not going to treat the...
May 10, 2010 12:00 AMALBANY -- Joe Bruno's stun ning conviction didn't do it in December, but maybe the two-year prison sentence on federal fraud charges that he was slapped with yesterday will force state lawmakers -- at long last -- to...
May 07, 2010 12:00 AMALBANY -- Senate Democrats yesterday threw a political hand grenade at their party colleagues in the teachers-union-influenced Assembly. Insiders said the bill dramatically hiking the number of charter schools was...
May 04, 2010 12:00 AM
Gov. Paterson yesterday moved ahead with plans to furlough 100,000 state workers in just over a week, as insiders reported that "no progress" was made in talks aimed at producing a new state budget. "The governor...
May 03, 2010 12:00 AM
So Eliot Spitzer isn't done with prostitutes after all. That's the only conclusion I can reach after studying lengthy portions of Peter Elkind's sloppy new pro-Spitzer book, "Rough Justice," dealing with the...
April 27, 2010 12:00 AMAndrew Cuomo will announce his candidacy for governor "right before" the Democratic nominating convention that begins May 25, The Post has learned. Cuomo told aides over the weekend that due to the high-profile...
April 26, 2010 12:00 AMAttorney General Andrew Cuomo's much-an ticipated announcement that he's running for governor could come a week from Wednesday, as he holds a major fund-raiser in Manhattan, sources said last night. An April 28...
April 19, 2010 12:00 AMGov. Paterson will wait until June -- or even later -- to get a "fiscally responsible" budget and won't allow lawmakers to use borrowing "as an excuse not to cut spending," an administration source said yesterday....
April 12, 2010 12:00 AM
Legislative Democrats are mockingly calling Gov. Paterson's top aide "Alexander Haig," while angrily describing the governor as "disengaged" and "checked out" of state government. "Larry Schwartz has become the...
April 05, 2010 12:00 AMGov. Paterson has concluded that Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch is a "double agent" working for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and against his own efforts to cut the state's projected $9.5 billion budget gap, The Post has...
March 29, 2010 12:00 AMAndrew Cuomo, gearing up for a late April announcement, breathed a loud sigh of relief over the weekend after hard-charging Democratic-turned-Republican Steve Levy failed to win Conservative Party backing for his new...
March 22, 2010 12:00 AMALBANY -- It was the Democrats and not the Republicans who were supposed to have a bitter and bloody primary battle for governor in November, but 2010 is, of course, anything but a predictable election year. Just...
March 20, 2010 12:00 AM
April fools! Legislative leaders, citing lame- duck Gov. Paterson's huge legal troubles and the late release of a massive, $6 billion borrowing scheme, privately concede there's no chance to get a new state budget...
March 15, 2010 12:00 AMALBANY -- Mayor Bloom berg got it right yesterday with his flip observation that Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch's scheme to borrow $6 billion to reform state spending "doesn't pass the laugh test." Ravitch's plan...
March 11, 2010 12:00 AMGov. Paterson, liar, liar, pants on fire! Sad to say, Paterson, who's earned a reputation as something of a pathological liar during the past two years, is lying again to the people of New York -- as he continues...
March 08, 2010 12:00 AMIn apparent violation of the law, a top adviser to Gov. Paterson's now-ended campaign provided thousands of dollars' worth of services to the governor for free while lobbying him for the controversial Aqueduct casino...
March 01, 2010 12:00 AM
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