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On Friday’s “Inside City Hall”, elections attorney Jerry Goldfeder predicted that a federal judge’s decision to move Congressional primaries in New York to June 26th could force other changes in the voting calendar.

Watch a clip of the interview above.

Tonight’s guests include: State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and our Monday Consultants Corner.

The New York Times

Danny Hakim reports: “Benjamin M. Lawsky is not the attorney general of New York State. But one could be forgiven for being confused. Since Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo installed him as superintendent of a new state agency, the Department of Financial Services, which became active in October, Mr. Lawsky has been making headlines normally associated with attorneys general.”

New York Post

Rich Calder notes: “A Brooklyn politician campaigning to replace admitted crook Carl Kruger in the state Senate is once again using part of a public plaza outside Brooklyn Borough Hall as his private parking space. Councilman Lew Fidler (D-Brooklyn) -- the frontrunner to fill the disgraced Kruger’s Senate seat in a special election March 20 – is up to his old tricks routinely parking on a sidewalk corridor in the plaza behind Borough Hall and then walking across the street to work at his Court Street law office.”

Jen Fermino reports: “A high-ranking MTA superintendent instituted a quota on the number of disciplinary violations that his underlings must dole out to subway workers each month — infuriating the agency’s largest union in the midst of tense contract negotiations, The Post has learned. The quota order is likely to rekindle the still-simmering tensions from the 2005 holiday-season transit strike — staged in large part because the union accused the MTA of a disciplinary crackdown.”

Sally Goldenberg writes: “Apparently, Mayor Bloomberg isn’t so high-tech after all. The man who created the Bloomberg Terminal, loves to show off his iPad skills and boasts of turning the city into ‘Silicon Alley’ runs an administration that still relies on typewriters. And his agencies’ fleet of 1,172 electronic typewriters isn’t going away anytime soon. The city Department of Administrative Services recently put out a request for bids for new typewriters to replace the aging collection.”

New York Daily News

Kenneth Lovett reports: “Assembly Democrats Monday will propose a hike in the minimum wage to $8.50 an hour, the Daily News has learned. The plan also will include a provision for automatic increases going forward that are tied to inflation, according to sources. The state's current minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. It has been increased five times since 2000--the last time in 2009, when it automatically went up a dime-an-hour to meet the federal rate.”

Lovett also writes: “Republican Rep. Bob Turner has an unlikely ally in his fight to keep his congressional district intact — the state Legislature’s most powerful Democrat. With two of New York’s 29 congressional seats slated to be axed in the redistricting process, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said he would prefer not to see Turner’s congressional seat eliminated.”

Lore Croghan reports: “ARRESTS OF drivers on drugs have surged 35% statewide in the past decade, but tests to catch more of them are essential, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday.”

Wall Street Journal

Jacob Gershman writes: “New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is quietly seeking more leeway to hire and transfer state employees outside of a competitive process, a move unions say would weaken civil service rules designed to prevent patronage. Buried in the governor's budget bills are changes to civil service laws that haven't been highlighted in Mr. Cuomo's speeches but together represent a comprehensive attempt to shake up promotion and hiring rules that date back to the 19th century.”

Until tomorrow.

Bob Hardt