Commentary

Ever get an offer in the mail that you felt was too good to be true? Residents of Yonkers, New York’s third-largest city, know just how you feel. Read More

Anyone following New York’s redistricting process knows it is desperately behind schedule and hopelessly caught up in political squabbling. Read More

Hochul should “ring out the old” by appointing a subsidy board that will shelve the prevailing-wage expansion Read More

A whole lot of people moved out of New York state after last year’s COVID-19 outbreak and government-imposed lockdown restrictions. Read More

New Yorkers should be on high alert in the wake of a new study issued last month concerning the ambitious climate law signed by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in July 2019 that mandates goals and timetables for the state’s transition from fossil fuels to r Read More

The city spent $3.2 billion on retiree health care last year. But that’s just the tip of a $118 billion iceberg of debt it owes — more than any government except the state of California. Read More

In its editorial celebrating Gov. Kathy Hochul’s embrace of a (further) enriched state education aid formula ("A new day for schools," Oct. 19), the Times Union Editorial Board bemoans New York’s "miserly education policy." Miserly? Really? Read More

Despite , the state Health Department continues responding to requests for pandemic data with stalling tactics that became notorious . In one striking example, the department recently responded to the Empire Center’s request for updated nursin Read More

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Hochul’s specific priorities were lowest-common-denominator stuff: “combating” the spread of COVID-19 linked to the Delta variant, pushing billions in stalled federal rent relief out the door to tenants (and ultimately their landlords) and “beginning to change the culture in Albany.” Read More

One of the most urgent imperatives confronting soon-to-be Gov. Kathy Hochul will be getting real about the state’s pandemic response Read More

For the first time ever, New York is projecting balanced state budgets across two consecutive fiscal years. Read More