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NY's still too business-unfriendly Newsday, February 02, 2012
The real NY minimum wage New York Post, February 02, 2012
Cuomo's Pivot City Journal, February 01, 2012
Triborough blocks fiscal sanity Newsday, January 26, 2012
A meaningful new try on pensions Newsday, January 19, 2012
Drop Triborough Amendment to control expenses Buffalo News, January 16, 2012
A Silver bullet -- aimed at jobs Newsday, January 12, 2012
Cuomo is wrong about food stamps New York Daily News, January 12, 2012
For $62 million, N.Y. had better create jobs Albany Times Union, December 15, 2011
Spend, spend, spend New York Post, December 10, 2011
More Revenue, More Spending New York Times, December 09, 2011
Gov blows smoke on tax hikes New York Post, December 05, 2011
Testing Cuomo National Review Online, November 10, 2011
Cuomo's big stall New York Post, November 10, 2011
Why labor could afford to slap the gov New York Post, September 28, 2011
Why the PA should sell off the WTC New York Post, August 22, 2011
Pension Fund Risks In Wild Market Politico, August 19, 2011
NY's unaffordable pension system Newsday, July 27, 2011
Stabbed in the back New York Post, June 25, 2011
A poison pill for the tax cap? New York Post, May 26, 2011
Will Cuomo's fix go far enough? New York Post, May 18, 2011
Poison pills for the gov's tax-cap New York Post, May 13, 2011
New York City pension costs soared New York Post, April 11, 2011
Make public disclosures simpler Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, March 13, 2011
Cuomo's tied down New York Post, February 28, 2011
Andrew Cuomo's property-tax cap New York Post, January 31, 2011
State Bankruptcy Is a Bad Idea Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2011
Mike Bloomberg's pension misfire New York Post, January 21, 2011
Right target, Andrew New York Post, January 05, 2011
Limits on spending and property taxes are critical Times Union, January 02, 2011
Public vs. private retirements New York Post, December 19, 2010
This Bomb Just Stopped Ticking New York Post, December 08, 2010
Cuomo's Nassau Test New York Post, November 29, 2010
A bat for the gov New York Post, November 15, 2010
Now comes the real fight New York Post, November 03, 2010
NY Needs Answers New York Post, October 18, 2010
Obama puts public sector employees ahead of private sector Washington Examiner, September 15, 2010
Is New York ungovernable? Syracuse Post-Standard, August 29, 2010
The Bucks Stop Here City Journal, August 19, 2010
The man who saved New York New York Post, July 25, 2010
The Empire State's Stimulus Addiction Wall Street Journal, July 02, 2010
After Property Tax Cap, Cuomo Plan Gets Soft New York Post, May 27, 2010
Can States Fix Their Pension Problems? New York Times, May 20, 2010
New York's latest job killer: A new bill would give workers broad rights to file suit when fired New York Daily News, May 19, 2010
Derailing New York New York Post, February 10, 2010
Don't waste school aid crisis Newsday, January 18, 2010
The affordable-housing pact: A flawed remedy for suburbs Journal News, August 30, 2009
To Fix Pension Peril New York Post, July 13, 2009
Defuse the Pension Bomb New York Post, July 09, 2009
Gov. Paterson turned his back on property tax cap Newsday, June 05, 2009
NY's Pension Peril New York Post, June 01, 2009
Leaving Homeowners In The Lurch New York Post, May 15, 2009
How New York Stokes Dependency New York Post, April 30, 2009
NY Without Wall St. New York Post, February 11, 2009
A sock in the face New York Post, January 27, 2009
Albany needs a whole lot more sunshine Newsday, January 16, 2009
Paterson’s goal is sure to drive prices even higher Buffalo News, January 16, 2009
Gold-Plated Pensions New York Post, October 08, 2008
Running on empty New York Post, September 16, 2008
Cap Those Taxes! New York Post, June 04, 2008
Albany's pork spending should be ended, not mended The Post-Standard, May 12, 2008
School plan still can be a success Times Union, April 08, 2008
Gov's Power Woes New York Post, March 24, 2008
Eliot's Excellent Idea New York Post, January 10, 2008
A Question for Hillary Wall Street Journal, January 05, 2008
Crunch Time for the TWU New York Post, November 08, 2007
N.Y.'s Falling Incomes New York Post, September 21, 2007
Bush Right to Curb Insurance 'Crowd Out' Times Union of Albany, September 04, 2007
Property Tax Rebates: No Lasting Relief in Fiscal Pain Killer Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, July 22, 2007
Pensions & Plunder New York Post, July 19, 2007
NY's Legal Plague New York Post, July 05, 2007
Eliot's Big Test New York Post, June 25, 2007
Babying Unions New York Post, May 15, 2007
Googling NY's Books New York Post, March 15, 2007
A Noose for Big Firms The New York Sun, February 28, 2007
Awaiting Spitzer's Budget The New York Sun, January 29, 2007
Doctoring Medicaid New York Sun, January 25, 2007
Mike's Pension Misfire New York Post, January 22, 2007
Eliot's Mixed Bag New York Post, January 04, 2007
Early Belt-Tightening Led to Squander Poughkeepsie Journal, January 02, 2007
Welfare Wonder New York Post, December 10, 2006
School Sanity New York Post, November 21, 2006
Spitzer Catches a Break on Medicaid New York Sun, November 16, 2006
Eliot Spitzer, Beware the Budget Process Syracuse.com, November 14, 2006
Eliot's Tough Talk New York Post, November 08, 2006
NY Budget Blues New York Post, November 01, 2006
Fiscal Accountability a Must for Lawmakers Times Union of Albany, October 29, 2006
Two years later, much is undone The Post-Standard, October 17, 2006
Medicaid Misses New York Post, September 19, 2006
Gas Pains New York Post, September 06, 2006
Public jobs remain plentiful Syracuse.com, September 05, 2006
Public Pension Price Tag The Wall Street Journal, August 21, 2006
Fiscal Time Bomb August 10, 2006
Ponderous Government is Crushing Opportunity Syracuse.com, August 01, 2006
Tax and Spend Legacy New York Post, July 28, 2006
Drunken Sailors New York Post, July 05, 2006
Mandated benefits a costly idea Albany, Times Union, June 18, 2006
The Star Delusion: Faso, Spitzer Copy Gov's Fake Tax Cut New York Post, June 13, 2006
New York's Pension Peril New York Post, June 08, 2006
Spending isn't answer for all problems The Post-Standard, May 23, 2006
Pigs-in-a-Blanket Veto New York Times, April 23, 2006
Lame Duck Quacking New York Post, April 19, 2006
Legislators should tell where pork money goes The Post-Standard, April 18, 2006
Confused Courts The New York Post, March 27, 2006
Welfare reform requires adjusting The Syracuse Post-Standard, March 15, 2006
New Yorkers Skedaddle As Tax Climate Worsens The Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2006
Proposed cigarette tax benefits butt-leggers The Post-Standard, February 07, 2006
NYC strike will affect taxpayers in Upstate The Syracuse Post-Standard, December 27, 2005
Lessons of the Strike: Pension Pickle The New York Post, December 23, 2005
Blame Albany The New York Post, December 22, 2005
Pension Madness The New York Post, December 19, 2005
Reforming the 'budget reform' proposition The Post-Standard, November 29, 2005
All Taxes Great and Small The New York Sun, November 07, 2005
Measure isn't the reform it poses as The Post-Standard, November 01, 2005
Voters Have Say on Future Spending The Post-Standard, October 04, 2005
Property Tax Plan Has Hidden Hefty Bite The Post-Standard, August 23, 2005
The City's Governor New York Times, August 07, 2005
Tax-and-Spend Legacy New York Post, July 28, 2005
Bill's cost could be impossible to count The Post-Standard, July 26, 2005
Competitive Sourcing Can Save Millions The Post-Standard, June 21, 2005
State policies driving up insurance cost The Post-Standard, May 24, 2005
Two Faces of Mike New York Post, May 06, 2005
Albany has plenty left to repair April 19, 2005
Sticker Shock The National Review Online, April 19, 2005
Budget Hoax New York Post, March 30, 2005
Tax cit requires new laws The Post-Standard, March 22, 2005
NY's Road to Ruin New York Post, March 16, 2005
Welfare reform requires adjusting The Post-Standard, March 15, 2005
Pension plan needs adjusting Pension plan needs adjusting, February 22, 2005
NY's Prisons Emptying Out New York Post, February 08, 2005
Time to end misuse of authorities The Post-Standard, February 08, 2005
Same Man, Same Problem New York Post, January 06, 2005
Gotham's Fiscal Crisis: Lessons Unlearned By E.J. McMahon and Fred Siegel, The Public Interest, Winter 2005, January 01, 2005
Budget reform is budget de-form The Post Standard, December 14, 2004
Fiscal Fantasy New York Post, December 01, 2004
Book Review: Eroding Liberty New York Post, November 21, 2004
Ferry Foolish New York Post, November 08, 2004
Book Review: Jobs Scandal New York Post, October 24, 2004
W's NY Centric Tax Cuts New York Post, August 24, 2004
Saving NY's Schools New York Post, July 14, 2004
N.Y. Tax Follies New York Post, June 24, 2004
Albany's 'Debt'-End New York Post, May 19, 2004
NYC's Sea of Red New York Post, 4-27-04, April 27, 2004
San Diego Needs Fundamental Pension Reform San Diego Union-Tribune, April 23, 2004
A half-baked effort at budget reform Times Union, April 02, 2004
The Price Of Better Schools: But Who Pays The Piper? New York Post, March 30, 2004
Better Late Than Larger New York Post, March 08, 2004
Question Authorities New York Post, February 26, 2004
A City Savings Spree New York Post, February 16, 2004
Return to dependency? New York Post, January 27, 2004
Tale of Two Speeches New York Post, 1-9-04, January 09, 2004
Defusing the Pension Bomb New York Post, December 19, 2003
Bringing Competition to Albany New York Sun, December 11, 2003
NY's Woes Remain New York Post, 10-31-03, October 31, 2003
To Keep People, Cut Costs Gotham Gazette, September 29, 2003
To Save N.Y.C. New York Post, September 19, 2003
The Biggest Bonding Boondoggle New York Sun, July 28, 2003
Mike's Mixed Bag New York Post, July 27, 2003
A Looming $torm New York Post, July 17, 2003
The Hidden Tax Increase New York Sun, June 11, 2003
Why 'Soaking the Rich' Is Poor Policy Barron's, May 19, 2003
Gouging the Metro Area New York Post, May 16, 2003
Taxing the Grandkids NY Post, May 07, 2003
Taxing 'Til We Drop NY Post, May 05, 2003
Erasing Giuliani's Tax Progress New York Sun, April 22, 2003
Doomsday for Real New York Post, April 16, 2003
Silver's Risky Budget Game New York Post, March 19, 2003
With Pals Like These, Who Needs Enemies? Newsday, March 12, 2003
Relying on the Rich New York Sun, February 11, 2003
Tale of Two Budgets New York Post, February 03, 2003
The Return of George I National Review Online, January 28, 2003
A Win for N.Y. New York Post, January 13, 2003
Rotten 'Reform' New York Post, November 14, 2002
Now, the Hard Part New York Post, November 06, 2002
The Rift on City Taxes Is a Split With Suburbs' Newsday, October 31, 2002
Pataki's 'Progress' New York Post, October 08, 2002
Botched Cleanup: New York City's & state's post-9/11 fiscal failure New York Post, August 22, 2002
Gotham Corp: Sell New York Post, June 24, 2002
Next Year's Tax Hike New York Post, May 16, 2002
Small Change New York Post, April 19, 2002
A Killer of a Living Wage New York Post, March 20, 2002
It's Still 'Borrow and Spend' in New York Newsday, February 28, 2002
Bloomberg's Misplaced (Compassionate) Side Gotham Gazette, February 18, 2002
Mike's Dangerous Budget Temptation New York Post, February 11, 2002
Pataki's Smaller Gov't New York Post, February 05, 2002
City Won't Bleed From Bloomberg's Ax Newsday, January 04, 2002
It's the Spending New York Post, January 01, 2002
Wrong Time for a Commuter Tax New York Post, December 17, 2001
Mike Must Bite Bullet On Income Tax Hike NY Daily News, November 29, 2001
Bush's Tax Cut: The Best for N.Y. New York Post, November 19, 2001
They Don't Get It New York Post, October 25, 2001
City Power: Don't Gamble on State Budget Fixes Newsday, October 13, 2001
A Blast to N.Y.'s Budget New York Post, October 02, 2001
Pataki Power Play: Gov Should Call Lawmakers' Budget Bluff New York Post, July 31, 2001
Turning the Page New York Post, July 09, 2001
Worse City Budget News Ahead New York Post, July 01, 2001
Rudy's Tax Cuts Don't Go Far Enough New York Post, April 25, 2001
A Risky Precedent New York Post, April 13, 2001
W.'s Gift to New York City Journal, March 05, 2001
A Risky Debt 'Reform' New York Post, February 11, 2001
The Blunders of '66 New York Post, January 03, 2001
A 'Ladder' to Sky High School Taxes New York Post, December 26, 2000
What Bush Should Have Said About Tax Cuts The Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2000
Rick, Hill & Tax Cuts For NY New York Post, October 18, 2000
Al's Middle-Class Tax Targets New York Post, October 11, 2000
Bizarre Tax-Cut Presentations Don't Add Up New York Post, September 05, 2000
NYC Jobs In Jeopardy New York Post, 7-24-00 , July 24, 2000
The Taxpayer: Last Again New York Post, June 28, 2000