It's a refrain we've come to expect from Governor Andrew Cuomo. “Local property taxes are out of control,” Cuomo said. He was beating that tax cap drum again on Monday in a web video, right as local governments begin finalizing spending pla Read More
Losing his free “E-ZPass for life” has taken such a toll on the city’s former downtown construction czar that he’s suing the Port Authority for nearly $10 million. Charles Maikish, 65, a longtime Port Authority administrator who later led Read More
It's been ten days since the mid year financial report was due from Governor Cuomo's budget office. Cuomo says he is waiting until economic uncertainty over the European debt crisis calms down, but some critics say he is violating a state law by dela Read More
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has missed the first deadlines of a state law aimed at ensuring the passage of an on-time budget and ending New York's notorious history of late budgets hashed out behind closed doors with little public review. No new target date Read More
Talks are taking place behind the scenes on changes to New York’s tax code that could result in the wealthy paying higher taxes. Governor Cuomo, who is asking for the changes, is also proposing a gambling expansion and other initiatives which he is Read More
Plenty has been written about the 2 percent property-tax cap masterminded by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. It's been explained over and over again in this newspaper and elsewhere. But if New York taxpayers were polled on the subject, I bet that at least h Read More