No money has been spent on Cuomo’s $2B bond act to boost schools New York Daily News
New York State Exposed: Is there enough oversight for how your tax dollars are being spent? WHEC
Critics say Albany “pork” is back WGRZ
State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo quietly have stashed away $1.2 billion for pet projects, and they are starting to spend it: about $187 million for 588 projects across New York, a report from the Empire Center, a watchdog group in Albany found.
A glimpse into slush guidelines by Ken Girardin | NY Torch

Watchdog Group says Cuomo, Legislature, Using “Slush Fund” for Projects WXXI
Cuomo learns to stop worrying, and love the slush New York Daily News
But that gratuitous giveaway of tax dollars, announced last year, turns out to have been the tip of a very big and ugly iceberg.
NY borrowing $5M for ‘Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ studio renovations Syracuse Post-Standard
That means state taxpayers are on the hook for $5 million, plus interest.