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I have been granted an audience with Detroit’s most famous crime family. The father, at 82, remains the capo di tutti capi, the undisputed boss: he has wiped out so many people in the course of his career, he lost count long ago. But now his 56-year-old son is joining the family business, and has [...]

The Associated Press, citing unnamed sources, is bracing for the possibility of a loss of 40,000 private sector jobs and billion in tax revenues over the next two years because of the Wall Street crisis.
That’s in line with what Paterson said Wednesday could be billion or more when the dust settles.
But a Paterson [...]

   The Nature Conservancy today purchased 14,500 acres of prime Adirondack property for million that will eventually be bought by the state and included in the Adirondack Park wilderness, a spokesman for the Adirondack Council said today.
The Follensby Pond tract in southern Franklin County, which includes a five-mile-long pond, was bought from John McCormick, [...]

The National Republican Congressional Committee is out with a new ad today knocking Democrats in the House and Democratic congressional candidates over not returning campaign contributions from embattled Rep. Charles Rangel, D-Harlem.
“So why won’t Democrats return Charlie Rangel’s campaign contributions?” the ad reads. “If Democrats in Congress can’t drain their own swamp, they ought to [...]

Good-government groups today called on Gov. David Paterson and state lawmakers to reform state’s ethics laws, saying the series of scandals in Albany could be hurting the New York’s economic climate.
The groups wrote a letter to the Democratic governor and legislative leaders that encourage them to create an ethics oversight agency, require tougher financial disclosures [...]

and the Reds are still at home! Man I don’t care if there’s no hope in getting to .500! I’m just glad to see some W’s on the board. Of course, it helps that Aaron “Boom” Harang is back in the saddle. Now if someone can just get another CG, we won’t tie the record [...]

A series of debates between U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, and Republican challenger Kieran Michael Lalor of Peekskill, are in the planning stages with one scheduled for Sept. 29 in Poughkeepsie, says Susan Spear, Hall’s campaign director.
Lalor, who is also running on the Conservative line, wants five debates with Hall, the same number Hall [...]

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign sent reporters an edited video clip and quote this afternoon in which a top adviser to Republican presidential candidate John McCain says he is not qualified to run a corporation.
Removed from the clip is the further comment by former Hewlett Packard chief Carly Fiorina that she also thinks Obama and his [...]

John McCain touts his experience and leadership—and not Barack Obama—in a new television ad released this afternoon.
“The economy is in crisis. Enough is enough. I’ll meet this financial crisis head on,” he says in the ad. “Reform Wall Street. New rules for fairness and honesty. I won’t tolerate a system that puts you and your [...]

Reporter Brian Howard, who attended William Gouldman’s press conference earlier today with James Tedisco in the 90th Assembly race, sends this dispatch:
William Gouldman is accusing incumbent Assemblywoman Sandra Galef of lacking the courage to defy Democratic leadership and vote a property tax cap measure out of the committee she chairs.

“She has the opportunity to do [...]