It's a place for insiders and informed outsiders to have a running conversation about New York politics.
Anyone can write -- just set up a blog here. The editors, Smith and Tsabar will, at least initially, choose which posts appear on the site's homepage. The headlines for all blog items appear in the left hand column in the Recent Posts block.
The house rules boil down to this: Don't be defamatory or hateful. We'll delete offending content and ban its authors without notice. Kos has a pretty good, fuller set of guidelines for the blogs on his site.
