Steve Levy

With apologies to the folks at Law & Order: In the New York political system, there are two distinct but equally named Bill Cunninghams: One who used to be in public service -- and one who still is. These......

Our Reid Epstein, covering the Patchogue gang killing, interviews Suffolk executive Steve Levy, who insists that the hate murder of a Hispanic immigrant would just be a one-day story if people weren't trying to pick on his policies on......

A short time ago, we posted an item from Reid Epstein about Steve Levy, who says the media is making too much of the hate murder of a Hispanic man in Patchogue in an effort to link it to......

Given the puzzling decision of some editors here to have our "hyper-local" newspaper devote its cover for two straight days to fluffy wire stories about Barack Obama instead of the hate murder of a Hispanic immigrant in Patchogue, you......

I was going to save ESPN's news release about branded holiday gifts for my "Strange but true" item in the Friday newspaper or at least for Friday blogging, but the rest of the blogosphere seems to be on the case,......

Gov. Paterson will announce his plan to cut $2 billion from the state budget today. Most will come from health and schools. Tuesday, he doled out plentiful portions of grim budget news at a forum in Syracuse. He may......

Suffolk Exec Steve Levy was blasted both in this Spin Cycle item yesterday and in a column by Dan Janison today for arguing that the hate murder of Marcello Lucero was a "one-day story" that the media was inflating......

In an item Wednesday, we were pretty critical of Suffolk Exec Steve Levy for saying that the murder of Marcello Lucero should have been a "one-day story," and of Newsday for taking a murder off of its cover after......

We aren't the only ones not impressed by Steve Levy's "one-day story" performance in the wake of the murder of Marcello Lucero, left. In this blog post, Pat Young of the Central American Refugee Center says the Suffolk executives......

Gov. Paterson's new budget-balancing plan came in for lots of criticism yesterday, as schools warned it would force them to cut staff and extracurricular programs and increase class size. Paterson's proposals have been tried before, not with a lot......

In case you missed it, Suffolk exec Steve Levy gets a tongue lashing from the NYTimes edit board for his handling of the Lucero hate murder, and his handling of illegal immigration in general: "Mr. Levy???s past harsh words and......

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose judgment and credentials on foreign affairs were criticized by Obama during the campaign, is now a strong candidate as his choice for Secretary of State. She was in Chicago yesterday. Despite Democrats' enthusiasm for......