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New York faces the prospect of growing land use conflicts in coming years, due to the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Read More

National Grid is trying to expand its natural gas compression facility in Brooklyn, but New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation delayed making a decision to approve it Read More

Recent stock market trends could punch a hole in New York's overstuffed state budget. Read More

Due to a quirk in state law, roughly 10,000 mostly low income and minority kids in New York City are being denied the charter school seats their parents covet for them. Read More

The electrify-everything movement is coming for your gas heat, stove, and clothes dryer.   Read More

The newly enacted wage hike for home care aides is likely to increase workers' pay more than three times as much in the New York City area as in other parts of the state, according to a review of labor data. Read More

Climate activists want to drive up home prices and heating costs for moderate- and lower-income New Yorkers. Where’s the justice in that? Read More

Nursing home staffing levels remained an unreliable indicator of Covid-19 risk for residents through the second year of the pandemic. Read More

Roughly $234 million of the $1.4 billion Buffalo Bills stadium construction funding package isn’t required to build the new 60,000 seat facility.   Read More

As they contemplate a major increase in Medicaid spending on home care for the elderly and disabled, state legislators are relying on information that's outdated, incomplete or inaccurate – and neglecting to think through the predictable consequences. Read More

As of February, job counts in 21 states had surpassed their pre-pandemic employment levels, according to federal Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Read More

A huge outflow of residents from New York City accounted for nearly all of New York State's record single-year population loss following the Covid-19 outbreak Read More