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In the first federal income-tax year affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, New York State's share of the nation's highest-earning filers dropped sharply. Read More

Nearing the end of the COVID-19 era's second year, New York remained more than a quarter-million private jobs below its February 2020 peak level Read More

A staff shortage in upstate hospitals prompted , where hospital officials and state lawmakers asked that more funding to train medical professionals be included in January’s sta Read More

The attorney general's just-filed lawsuit against the Villages of Orleans nursing home has implications that reach far beyond a single facility in western New York. In addition Read More

One lesson of the pandemic is that, as profligate as the Empire State is when it comes to spending money, it has yet to learn to do it well.  Read More

After remaining for months on the fate of the proposed two-year moratorium on crypto-mining, Governor Kathy Hochul has now the bill into law, as her admi Read More

A pandemic-related study recently published by the state University at Albany's School of Public Health is marred by factual errors, inconsistencies and methodological issues that raise doubts about its findings – and questions about the process by which it was reviewed. Read More

An audit report shines some overdue light on New York’s handling of unemployment insurance claims it paid out during the Covid-19 pandemic.  Read More

If the power goes out under a fully municipalized LIPA, you can bet neither the Legislature nor public power advocates will accept the blame. Read More

The Hochul Administration has finally released an overdue budget report—which, on first look, shows the state's fiscal outlook virtually unchanged.  Read More

Although Governor Hochul's long-promised review of New York's COVID response hasn't formally started yet, it has already exposed important information about the state's pandemic preparedness – much of which is unflattering. Read More

Governor Hochul faced questioning in this election’s only gubernatorial debate about whether she’d sign the cryptocurrency mining moratorium. Read More