Some state Assembly members from communities most heavily damaged by flooding after Hurricane Irene have introduced a bill () that would exclude "emergency expenditures ... necessary as a result of damage to, or destruction of, a school building or s Read More
Enrollment in New York State's Medicaid program just topped 5 million, another milsteone for the massively expensive program, the Wall Street Journal Read More
State comptroller Tom DiNapoli has on Wall Street out, and it isn't pretty. One piece of information shows just how New York -- City and State -- grew dangerously dependent on an ever-growing Wall Street over the past three decades. In 1981, b Read More
In response to the Occupy Wall Street protest, a pair of Democratic state lawmakers from New York City is repeating some flagrantly inaccurate data about taxes in New York State. In an at Huffington Post, Senator Daniel Squadron of Brooklyn Read More
Someone asked Mayor Bloomberg what he thinks of Occupy Wall Street, and : What they're trying to do is take the jobs away from people working in this city. They're trying to take away the tax base we have because none of this is good fo Read More
Nicole Gelinas has in the New York Post today on the sinking fortunes of New York City's financial sector. Her message: Thanks to Washington’s support for big banks, New York City has been a cocoon of prosperity compared to Read More
"Down with bankers!" No, that's not the sound of the Zuccotti crowd protesting, but the sound of New York employers slashing their payroll, according to the city budget office's "." Between the 2007 peak and mid-2010, New York's financial indus Read More
Now that the state Public Employees Federation (PEF) has rejected a proposed contract, Governor Andrew Cuomo is moving forward with 3,500 layoffs. Or, then again, . Tin the Albany Times Union suggests there is an 80 percent likelihood t Read More
The Local 100 Transport Workers Union (most of them work at the MTA) will join the "Occupy Wall Street" protest today at 4:00 in Zuccotti Park downtown. There's a bit of an irony in the location. The park is named for John Zuccotti. Zuccotti is . Read More
Yesterday, the Public Employees Federation (PEF) voted down -- by a wide margin - the contract their leadership negotiated with Gov. Cuomo. The Governor's staff was quick to place the blame on the union. But as in today's New York Post, PEF - lik Read More
To the consternation of the New York's largest state employee union, Gov. Cuomo has cleared the way for an increase in the share of health insurance premiums paid by retired state workers. Read More