The state Health Department has belatedly published a more complete COVID death count for the pandemic's first year, accounting for more than 6,000 victims who were left out of the state's previous tallies because they Read More
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In a surprise development, Governor Kathy Hochul has changing the way the state accounts for emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas. The proposal has big implications for New Yor Read More
Governor Hochul has turned to a Court of Appeals associate judge whose case file includes a 70-page opinion arguing that an elephant should have the legal right to petition for release from the Bronx Zoo. Read More
Former President Trump’s indictment and arraignment renewed interest in New York’s prohibition on televising state court proceedings. Read More
As New York's health-care industry agitates for more money from the state budget, two of its most influential lobbying groups are airing TV ads that make alarmist and inaccurate claims about Medicaid. Read More
Four years after passage of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, state officials have finally begun to take a close look at the law’s consumer costs. Read More
Two years ago last week, I wrote in the Daily News about how then-Governor Andrew Cuomo was pushing a costly change to insurance law on behalf of a hospital group that had supported his campaign through a fun Read More
As the Legislature prepares to authorize new downstate casinos, some voters who supported the amendment are discovering they came up snake-eyes. Read More
New York City and its suburbs accounted for most of New York State’s during the second year of the pandemic, according to the latest county-level estimates from the Census Bureau. for the 12 months ending last July 1 indicate the city’s popu Read More
Three full years after the initial COVID-19 outbreak, New York’s post-pandemic jobs recovery remains among the weakest in the country. Read More
Public employee unions — and Governor Hochul — are pressuring state lawmakers to increase hiring at state agencies because, they say, more than a quarter of the state workforce is poised to retire. Read More
A state Supreme Court judge yesterday voided the bulk of New York’s “substantial equivalence” regulations aimed at religious and other non-public schools Read More