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.
A Prominent Republican is joining a prominent Democrat in predicting that Gov. Cuomo will become President Obama's running mate for vice president next year. Former New York GOP boss William Powers, credited with...
July 04, 2011 12:00 AMDon't call him President Cuomo, yet! Gov. Cuomo moved swiftly this weekend to halt an eruption of media speculation that he'll be a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 because of his...
June 27, 2011 12:00 AM
Gov. Andrew Cuomo completed his first legislative session Friday night with yet another breathtaking display of political skillfulness, the likes of which hasn’t been seen in the Capitol for at least 50 years. Cuomo’s...
June 26, 2011 12:00 AMALBANY -- Despite weeks of turmoil, political threats and at times heart-rending and highly emotional debate, it turned out to be far easier than anyone had thought. Gov. Cuomo was able to deliver on his pledge to...
June 25, 2011 12:00 AMGov. Cuomo and legislative negotiators are hours from a deal on a strong new rent law protecting New York City tenants. The agreement, expected to come as soon as today, will raise the rental threshold under which...
June 20, 2011 12:00 AM
Seven or more Senate Republicans have signaled Gov. Cuomo that they're ready to legalize same-sex marriage, more than enough to put the controversial and historic measure over the top this week, The Post has learned....
June 13, 2011 12:00 AM
The chief of State Police avia tion was booted from his post last week after out raged officials discovered that one of the elite unit's executive-style choppers was being used for scenic joy rides around Jones Beach,...
June 06, 2011 12:00 AMIt's the most sweeping ethics-reform package in modern times, and it's certain to end the most corrupt practices of New York's notoriously dysfunctional Legislature -- and maybe shorten some political careers, to boot....
June 04, 2011 12:00 AMIt's not what any New York taxpayer wants to hear. The two most powerful leaders in the state Legislature -- Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos -- don't trust each other, believe...
May 30, 2011 12:00 AM
Gay-marriage backers got what they're calling a big boost over the weekend when Republican state Sen. James Alesi appeared at a major upstate dinner held by the state's biggest gay-rights group. The Empire State...
May 23, 2011 12:00 AM
The state's most powerful Republi can is refusing to reveal whether he's earning legal fees from clients who do business with the state, a practice Gov. Cuomo says could involve conflicts of interest or even bribery....
May 16, 2011 12:00 AM
Federal probers are focusing on a Queens senator under inves tigation for steering hundreds of thousands of public dollars to not-for-profit groups with ties to her family and friends. Sen. Shirley Huntley, a...
May 09, 2011 12:00 AM
GOP state senators voted for Gov. Cuomo's sweeping property-tax cap only because they knew it wouldn't pass the Democratic-controlled Assembly, an associate of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has admitted. The...
May 02, 2011 12:00 AMTwo key insiders are acknowl edging a long-suppressed, ex plosive truth: Many top lawyer/legislators are paid huge sums of money by special-interest clients who are interested only in buying influence at the...
April 25, 2011 12:00 AMAndrew Cuomo for vice president in 2012? That was the provocative prediction made last week by former San Francisco Mayor and onetime California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown Jr., widely regarded on the West Coast as...
April 18, 2011 12:00 AM
Gov. Cuomo continued to shake up the scandal-scarred Division of State Police last week with the unannounced appointment of a career prosecutor, surprisingly not a police officer, as its first deputy superintendent,...
April 11, 2011 12:00 AM
Passing an austere, fiscally responsible and on-time budget was good, but capping runaway property taxes around the state would be great. That's the message Gov. Cuomo is getting from some of his closest advisers,...
April 04, 2011 12:00 AMALBANY -- By force of will and a fierce work ethic, Gov. Cuomo has pulled off the near-impossible with a budget agreement that closes a $10 billion projected deficit without the tax hikes, fees and fiscal gimmicks that...
March 29, 2011 12:00 AMGov. Cuomo stole Teddy Roosevelt's strategy yesterday as he spoke softly and carried a big stick to achieve the seemingly impossible: getting the notoriously dysfunctional and spendthrift Legislature to agree to an...
March 28, 2011 12:00 AM
With less than two weeks to go be fore a budget is due, aides to Gov. Cuomo fear a state shutdown could occur because of large spending demands by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, The Post has learned....
March 21, 2011 12:00 AMA tough-talking Gov. Cuomo, battling a $10 billion deficit and lawmakers determined to hike taxes and spending, dramatically vowed over the weekend: "It's now or never to end the state's dysfunction and the special...
March 14, 2011 12:00 AMALBANY -- Gov. Cuomo yesterday made his first major blunder since taking office -- he failed to use charges against two prominent lawmakers to force the scandal-scarred Legislature to adopt the sweeping ethics reforms...
March 11, 2011 12:00 AMTop labor leaders privately predict that Gov. Cuomo, who has threatened to fire 10,000 state workers, will have an easier time than expected next month winning concessions from public-employee unions -- and he has...
March 07, 2011 12:00 AMALBANY -- You'd think after nine years in office, Mayor Bloomberg would know how Albany works. But he obviously doesn't, as Gov. Cuomo made clear for all to see late Tuesday when he pulled the rug out from under a...
March 03, 2011 12:00 AM
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver conceded yesterday that the multibillion-dollar “millionaires tax” on those making $200,000 and up — which is overwhelmingly favored by his fellow Democrats — is dead. Silver, the...
February 28, 2011 4:12 AMThe leaders of the Legislature are up to their old political tricks, privately opposing Gov. Cuomo's efforts to cut spending while publicly proclaiming the opposite, key legislative insiders have told The Post....
February 21, 2011 12:00 AM
Key Republican state senators have their doubts about Majority Leader Dean Skelos' claimed willingness to back Gov. Cuomo's efforts to slash spending and reform legislative ethics, The Post has learned. "Many...
February 14, 2011 12:00 AMAssembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, long an opponent of sweeping reforms in the scandal-scarred Legislature, has privately signaled that he'll bow to Gov. Cuomo's sweeping ethics-reform proposal and back its two key...
February 07, 2011 12:00 AM
State lawmakers are secretly eyeing a compromise that would allow Mayor Bloomberg to fire thousands of "nonteaching teachers" without consideration of the "last in, first out" law, The Post has learned. The plan,...
January 31, 2011 12:00 AM
Look out, Mike! Here comes Gov. Cuomo -- and he's wielding a brutal bud get ax. Mayor Bloomberg, who last week warned of multibillion-dollar city deficits over the next several years, will get more bad news next...
January 24, 2011 12:00 AM
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