Andrew Cuomo is receiving criticism from the gay community for the appointment of Richard Socarides to the SUNY board, since Socarides helped pushed through "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and DOMA while a counsel to Bill Clinton.

Doug Muzzio predicts a "death match" for control of the State Senate.

Mike Bloomberg said that the judge who released the youth caught with an illegal gun "defies logic."

Malcolm Smith op-eds in favor of stop-and-frisk. 

A little noticed budget items would levy a tax on non-profits for garbage collection; the City Council is vowing to resist. 

The Dept. of Investigations is busting less government workers and more contractors and other "civilians," David Seifman reports.

The re-opening of McCarren Pool, which was hailed as a grand civic treatment that would bring Brooklynites of all walks of life together, has turned fraught and brought tensions between ethnic communities and gentrifying newcomers to the surface.

The opening of the pool comes as the city's thermostat is set to "broil."

City-run Harlem and Kings County hospitals are among the worst places in the country to be sick, a new Consumer Reports study of hospital safety says.

Carol Kellerman op-eds in favor of mandate relief.

The Post warns that most rank-and-file Wall Street jobs are fleeing New York thanks to "the blue social model:" "New York’s complicated regulatory structure, high rents and high welfare costs make it almost impossible for even wealthy companies to maintain mass middle-class employment."

Mitt Romney countered one of his top advisors and said that the mandate in Obamacare counted as a tax. 

He is technically correct, writes The Fix, since the Supreme Court ruled the mandate a tax and Romney called his mandate a penalty.

Ezra Klein says its irrelevant whether the mandate is called a tax or a penalty.

The seven possible tipping points of the election. 

Barack Obama is embarking on a blue collar bus tour.