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Film and television producers have used Oscar-worthy tactics to convince state lawmakers to pay them billions of dollars for projects in New York, ostensibly to boost the local economy. Read More

Just in time for tax season, New York State's tax agency just lost a major legal challenge to its policy of pursuing maximum income tax payments from wealthy vacation homeowners—even when they live elsewhere. Read More

A City Council hearing in Manhattan on Thursday promises a rare scene in New York politics: hospitals playing defense. The council is debating whether to establish a watchdog agency focused on the high price of hospital care in New York, with a goal of helping the city and other employers contain the rapidly rising cost of health benefits for workers. Read More

In a move that ought to raise eyebrows in Washington, the Hochul administration is requesting additional federal money for New York's Essential Plan, which is already sitting on more than $9 billion after years of running a multi-billion-dollar surpl Read More

As the old Marx Brothers joke goes, “Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?” Doreen Harris, president and CEO of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority,   that she was setting the record straight, and that � Read More

Governor Hochul is releasing the brakes on Medicaid, allowing state spending on the safety-net health plan to increase more than twice as fast as it typically did during the Cuomo administration. Read More

Led by a massive decline in New York City, enrollment in New York’s public schools continued falling last year and has sunk to its lowest level since the mid-1950s.  Read More

A arctic blast hit the Northeast last weekend. The weather system sent temperatures plunging across the region, including in New York and Quebec, with a resulting increase in dema Read More

A pair of Senate Republicans are arguing, on procedural grounds, against Governor Hochul’s plan to allow more charter schools. Read More

As another Arctic blast hits the Northeast and temperatures plunge, more energy is needed to keep New Yorkers warm.  Where is that energy coming from?  Read More

Over budget, over time, over and over – that’s the   Megaprojects are transformational, multi-billion-dollar, multi-year projects i Read More

The unveiled today by Governor Hochul would stay on the course she set last year — raising spending to unsustainable levels, pointing towards deep holes for the future. Adjusting for surplus-funded debt service prepayments (which distort the bo Read More