It’s bad enough that the budget agreement announced Thursday night by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will shower more than $1 billion of the public’s money on a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills, a billionaire-owned football franchise that competes i Read More
Commentary
While Tier 6 wasn’t the “bold and transformational” breakthrough touted by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2012, it was a solid net positive for taxpayers Read More
The IRC’s refusal to complete its constitutional responsibility represents nothing less than a dereliction of duty. Read More
New York can have 100 percent zero-emissions electricity in 2040. But it can’t have enough of it to keep the lights and the heat on. Read More
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