Vito Fossella News

In keeping with President Barack Obama's historic inauguration in January, the year 2009 was one of change on Staten Island, but one dominated by some familiar names: Debi Rose, Rep.

Rep. Michael McMahon will be challenged in his bid for re-election. Campaign 2010 is already shaping up to be one of the most intriguing election seasons seen on Staten Island recently, and could be even more electric if Vito Fossella, Rudy Giuliani and Andrew Cuomo get in the ring.

Former Gov. Mario Cuomo and other top Democrats will headline a fund-raiser for Rep.

Every year the New York Police and Fire Departments face off in a football game.

Local leaders met behind closed doors in Albany yesterday with the head of the Department of Environmental Conservation in an effort to save all or part of Pouch Camp in Sea View.

If Rudy Giuliani runs for U.S. Senate next year, it could have a ripple effect down the rest of the ballot, boosting Staten Island Republican candidates and giving Democratic incumbents stiffer challenges.

Think back to the race last year: sitting Congressman Vito Fossella gets drunk in DC, crosses the bridge into Virginia, blows a red light, blows twice the legal limit on a breathalyzer, gets hauled to jail, calls not his wife, not his chief of staff who lives walking distance away, but his mistress, mother of his other child...there you are, you're ...

Guy Molinari declined to comment on Republican Party rift in advance of his namesake club's Monday night dinner.

Supporters of borough president candidate John Luisi stand on Hylan Boulevard in New Dorp, across from the Excelsior Grand where Borough President James Molinaro is holding his "Prelude to Victory" breakfast.

Democratic Rep. Michael McMahon will be seeking re-election for the first time in a midterm election.

The battle between a Democratic incumbent and a Republican upstart isn't just a race for Bay Ridge's Council seat - it's a litmus test for conservatives in the borough's longtime right-wing stronghold.

The message of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to New York this weekend is one of hope - and hope is just what clergymen are clinging to most in Brooklyn.

In one of the most lopsided votes since the re-election of Chairman Mao in 1954, members of Brooklyn's famously progressive supermarket, the Park Slope Food Co-op, voted nearly unanimously on Tuesday night to stop making plastic shopping bags available at the checkout counter.

Peter Frampton came alive at Coney Island's Asser Levy Park on Thursday night, belting out some of the live hits that made his "Frampton Comes Alive" LP the greatest live album ever .

The Supreme Court will not hear a case brought by property owners who are slated to lose their land to make room for Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project - but the property owners say they will take their case through New York State's court system, which has traditionally not been sympathetic to property owners in eminent domain cases.

Affordable housing advocates called on Mayor Bloomberg this week to quit subsidizing the construction of luxury apartments, saying his long-awaited reform proposal for a controversial property tax break didn't go far enough.

Who is Michael Allegretti, and why are people throwing money at him? The Republican challenger to Democratic Rep.

Making their cases for why they are best suited to serve their district in the city council, incumbent Councilman Vincent Gentile and challenger Bob Capano held the first of three debates that led a full week of such confrontations.

With Republican Vito Fossella making the rounds lately and the health-care debate continuing to consume the attention of Staten Island voters, the attention of many in the political world has been focused on Democratic Rep.

In early October, nearly a thousand Staten Islanders packed into a high school auditorium - and around two hundred angry residents were turned away at the door - to hear Rep.