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State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has announced that New York's Common Retirement Fund suffered an investment loss of 4.1 percent in fiscal 202 Read More

The price of offshore wind is about to go up, and electricity users across the Empire State will be on the hook for it. Read More

The 2022-23 school year and legislative session have come to a close—what happened? The following summary outlines key legislative changes affecting education in New York.   New York ranks #1 in spendi Read More

State lawmakers are divided over proposal known as "Coverage for All," which would allow low-income undocumented immigrants to obtain free health insurance through the state-run Essential Plan. Read More

A state budget report published last week by the Hochul administration broke several pieces of news about Medicaid and other state health programs. Here are some of the key rev Read More

The New York legislature last year created a legislative commission tasked with justifying and crafting a plan for full municipalization of the Long Island Power Authority. Read More

New York’s outyear budget gaps, the shortfall between planned state expenses and state tax receipts over the next three years, has exploded to more than $36 billion, just-released documents show.  Read More

Nearly half of New York's nursing homes would be effectively exempted from a two-year-old minimum spending law under terms of a rollback passed by state lawmakers this week. En Read More

The murky world of hospital pricing would be exposed to more sunlight under a bill approved this week by state lawmakers. The legislation calls for the state-run employee healt Read More

Left standing outside this concern for justice is the developing world's labor force upon whose broken and polluted bodies New Yorkers will build their green future. Read More

New York’s construction unions, facing a decades-long decline, are employing a time-honored tactic: getting state government to stop people from competing with them. Read More

A pair of state-employed writers began researching, outlining and drafting a book about Governor Andrew Cuomo's pandemic response in late March 2020, weeks before New York's harrowing first wave had passed, according to newly disclosed email records. Read More