The Albany Times Union on Albany’s patronage spree [http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=833112&category=OPINION] Yonkers Tribune’s Henry Stern on the Espada difference [http://yonkerstribune.typepad.com/yonkers_tribune/2009/08/new-york-civic-the-soundview-posse-by-henry-j-stern.html] Long Island Business News says great liberal hope is lost [http://libn.com/blog/2009/08/19/kiernan-the-great-liberal-hope-has-rapidly-evaporated/]