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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

Governor Hochul’s budget office has yet to release the statutorily required mid-year financial plan update of the state’s fiscal outlook. Read More

The Hochul Administration published a pair of documents concerning the Micron Megafab deal that raise more questions than they answer. Read More

President Joe Biden, visiting Syracuse to tout the planned Micron fab in Onondaga County, dropped a big detail. Read More

The Governor says Micron is a great deal despite the price it will exact from the state’s taxpayers. But we haven’t seen the data and analysis explaining why. Read More

With inflation rampaging, the seven-percent increase in key federal tax code thresholds is the biggest one-year hike since key aspects of the IRS code were indexed to inflation. Read More

Results are in for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the nation’s report card. They paint a bleak picture for New York. Read More

The New York State Board of Regents lowered the threshold to pass Regents examinations from a 65 to a 50 in order to ‘satisfy diploma requirements’ for the academic years disrupted by the pandemic. Read More

New York’s statewide teachers union is providing a glimpse of its strategy to shrink and potentially eliminate New York’s charter schools. Read More