New York State's 2010-11 2011-12 fiscal year appears to be off to a good start. Tax collections for the first quarter of the year were nearly $800 million above Governor Andrew Cuomo's initial budget projections, according to the June cash report posted today by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. Read More
The Daily News ran a today by two Competitive Enterprise Institute scholars, F. Vincent Vernuccio and Adam Michel. In the piece, the authors assert Read More
Transport Workers Union local chief John Samuelson today to in last week's Post: When thelays off transit workers, there isn't less work -- just fewer workers doing more to keep the system going.That means more overtime, Read More
Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced two public-sector labor relations challenges when he took office. The first was to negotiate contracts with state employee unions that would produce both short-term and recurring savings to help stem the flow of red ink in h Read More
"New York has always paid its pension bills on time," state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli boasted yesterday, in the state pension fund's 14.6 percent return on assets during the fiscal year that ended March 31. But in fact, under a 2010 law champio Read More
The Citizens Budget Commission hosted Deputy Mayor Bob Steel this morning for a pension-fix presentation. Despite some new bells'n'whistles, the city's pension proposal is still the same: ask Gov. Read More
In a case with potentially far-reaching implications for local taxpayers across New York, a labor arbitrator has ruled that the city of White Plains, in Westchester County, has the right to require police retirees to begin contributing to their healt Read More
In the final hours of 2011 legislative session, as a favor to the powerful statewide teachers' union, the New York State Senate and Assembly passed a bill that would allow school districts to circumvent the state's new property tax cap by issuing bon Read More