High taxes, woeful technical education and laissez-faire governing are holding back job creation in the five boroughs, panelists said Tuesday at a Crain's forum. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio praised the Bloomberg administration for setting the foun Read More
New York City officials are keeping secret the names of tens of thousands of retirees who get pensions from the city, a step that breaks with decades of tradition and has outraged advocates of open government. Several city pension funds, including Read More
An audit by Bahgat & Laurito-Bahgat of the Cassadaga Valley Central School District's Transportation Department found a number of problems, including that the department was buying parts for vehicles the school never owned and that bus runs were Read More
Everyone knows New York has the nation's highest property taxes. But it gets worse. The state also has the nation's most inefficient, confusing, unfair and generally unworkable system for collecting and administering property taxes, according t Read More
The next principal of Queensbury High School has been found. Superintendent Douglas Huntley said he will recommend the Board of Education appoint Kristine Orr, who has been Queensbury's director of secondary curriculum since 2007. While she beg Read More
The last 50 years has seen an exodus of New Yorkers leaving the state. That's according to a report released Tuesday by the Empire Center for Public Policy, which found a net 7.3 million residents left the state since 1960. And in the last 10 years a Read More
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research released the first in a series of reports analyzing the 2010 census data for New York this week. It found that 1.6 million people have left New York state between 2000 and 2010—the fourth highest migratio Read More