Queens lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans alike, were a busy group, rushing around Albany in the closing days of the recent legislative session to get bills passed and sent to Governor David Paterson, who would then sign them into law. More...

The controversial plan by the city's Department for the Aging which proposes changes in home meal delivery and senior center operations would be stopped dead in its tracks under a bill passed by the Democrat-controlled Assembly in the waning hours More...

A bipartisan bill outlining improvements in the Medicare program passed the House last week by a whopping 355- 59 vote. More...

Officials from HANAC, an Astoria based social services organization, received a grant of $600,000 in federal funds last week to help finance construction of a 93-unit senior residence on the site now occupied by the Presbyterian Church of Astoria a More...

BY RICHARD GENTILVISO Congressmember Carolyn Maloney has joined forces with state Senator George Onorato, Assemblymember Michael Gianaris and City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. More...

Community Board 2's May meeting had six items that had to be brought to a vote: four Landmark Preservation Commission applications, a Consumer Affairs application and a Department of Transportation presentation on the Vernon Boulevard-East River Gr More...

Major Disabled Rights Bill OK'd By House Advocates of legal protections for the disabled scored a major victory last week when Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation expanding the civil rights of the disabled and restoring some rights that had More...