Category: Media Coverage

A bill to check the growth of property taxes became law late Friday night, a signature priority for business lobbies this year. The law prevents property taxes — often the biggest tax a business pays — from rising more than 2 percent a year, o Read More

Although Democratic Mayor John DeStefano has enjoyed a good relationship with the New Haven, Conn., municipal unions through most of his 17 years in office, lately those ties have frayed. He says that workers' wages and benefits have become "the Pac- Read More

The state Legislature last week snuck through a massive borrowing bill that will push the pension tab for school employees onto future taxpayers at higher costs. While attention was diverted to gay marriage, the Senate Thursday night and the Assem Read More

The Alexander at Patroon Creek comes with all the amenities of modern living -- central air conditioning, sun decks and access to a fitness center and indoor and outdoor pools. No less than Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy makes his Albany home at the 2-year-ol Read More