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News & Commentary Archive : | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005

Property Taxes: The Case for a Cap

April 02, 2008
Separating Fact from Fear Mongering on the "Rich Tax"

by E.J. McMahon

March 26, 2008
Parsing the "Q-Poll" on Taxes

by E.J. McMahon

March 24, 2008
"NY Unplugged?" Energy Policy at a Crossroads

March 12, 2008
Silver Changing Tune on Tax Cap?

February 26, 2008
Survey Finds Tax Cap Has Strong Public Support

January 21, 2008
State Pension Costs Continue To Climb

October 04, 2007
New Yorkers On the Move

September 24, 2007
Personal Income Drops in NY in Second Quarter

September 20, 2007
No News is Bad News: NY Counties Still Among Most Heavily Taxed

September 12, 2007
Spitzer's Intriguing Tax Cap Hint

August 29, 2007
Skyrocketing MedMal Rates Send a Message

July 03, 2007
State Highway System Among Nation's Worst, Study Says

June 29, 2007
NY Is Tops in School Spending

May 24, 2007
Total NY Tax Burden at Record Level

May 20, 2007
"Professionalizing" Grandma? Spitzer Moves to Unionize Home Day Care

May 17, 2007
A Look at Spitzer's Top Education Aide

April 18, 2007
Testimony: The Case for Capping Property Taxes

April 17, 2007
Albany Oink, '07-08 Edition

April 10, 2007
How, Why and For Whom the Property Tax Rebate is Taxable

April 05, 2007
Spitzer's Budget

How the "New Paradigm" Adds Up for New York Taxpayers

April 03, 2007
Wall Street Pushes Up NY Incomes

March 29, 2007
Budget Deal Boosts Spending Further

March 28, 2007
Holding New York's Public Schools Accountable

March 05, 2007
A Grade Above: The Facts on Teacher Pay

February 27, 2007
NY Medicaid Costs for Elderly Outpacing Other States

February 15, 2007
Spitzer's Paradigm-Shifting Health Policy Premise

January 26, 2007
New Yorkers Shipping Out, Report Shows

January 09, 2007
The "$6 billion Tax Cut" That Gov. Spitzer Isn't (Quite) Proposing

January 08, 2007
New Yorkers Still Heading for the Exits

January 02, 2007
Berger Commission's Cut Barely Skin Deep

November 28, 2006
Lawmaker Salaries By State

November 27, 2006
Welfare Reform Turns 10

October 12, 2006
Forum Identifies Ways to Improve Health Care

September 27, 2006
New York Low on Economic Freedom: Study

September 26, 2006
New York's Fiscal Time Bomb

September 21, 2006
State's Public Sector Grows to Record Level

September 03, 2006
Public Pension System Sweetened Again

July 18, 2006
Legislature hands unions new weapons

June 21, 2006
Study: Lawsuits Drive NY's High MedMal Premiums

June 01, 2006
Merger Could Take Bite Out of Big Apple

May 25, 2006
Rocky-Era Spending Returns to New York

May 17, 2006
SPECIAL FEATURE: Links to "member item" lists

April 05, 2006
A peep-hole into New York's pork barrel

April 03, 2006
Sprinkling more STAR-Dust on School Taxes

March 23, 2006
Higher taxes are the last thing we need

March 11, 2006
NY gains jobs, but still trails rest of U.S.

March 08, 2006
The Potential Value of NY's Racing "Trifecta"

February 27, 2006
Report Highlights Budget Trends Under Pataki

February 24, 2006
But remember: It's all for the kids

February 10, 2006
Will the Wall Street Goose Keep Laying Golden Eggs?

February 06, 2006
Spend Now, Cut Taxes Later

January 17, 2006
The Transit Strike's Broader Implications

December 27, 2005
Political Gas Pains

September 06, 2005
Towards Better Special Education for New York

September 01, 2005
Bond Deal Goes Forward

August 03, 2005
Bold and Sweeping Medicaid Reform

August 02, 2005
Seeking More Secure Perks for Government Workers

July 26, 2005
Comptroller Blocks "Back-Door" Bond deal

July 21, 2005
Legislators Keep Pushing Sweeter Pension Benefit Proposals

July 14, 2005
Eminent Domain Backlash in Central NY

July 08, 2005
Out of Sight: Health Insurance in Gotham

July 07, 2005
Private Property and "Public Use" in NY

June 27, 2005
Empire State's Economic Picture: Mixed

June 24, 2005
Saving Tax Dollars Through Competition

June 21, 2005
Forum to Explore Fresh Thinking on CFE

June 14, 2005
The Biggest Public Pension Investment Policy Shift You've Probably Never Heard Of

June 13, 2005
Take this bill -- please!

June 03, 2005
Stopping the Health Care Bleeding in NY

May 25, 2005
Many LIers Still Sour on School Budgets

May 18, 2005
Coming Events: Albany Forum on Consumer-Driven Health Care

May 17, 2005
NY Manufacturers: Conditions Deteriorating

May 16, 2005
School Taxes Skyward

May 12, 2005
Happy Days Are Here Again?

May 06, 2005
Budget "Reform" Moves to Ballot

May 04, 2005
More Money = Lousy Results

May 02, 2005
Shuffle Off to ... West Virginia?

April 29, 2005
It's Alive

April 19, 2005
Higher and Higher

April 13, 2005
Another Middle-class Tax

April 11, 2005
Saving Transit $$$

March 30, 2005
Getting More Bang for CFE Bucks

March 08, 2005
Unequal Impacts

March 01, 2005
The Perils of Hiking the PIT

February 16, 2005

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