The Post that City Council Speaker Christine Quinn wants to spend $20 million giving developers of unsold condos up to $50,000 a unit if they'll turn "market rate" homes in Harlem and Brooklyn into "affordable housing" homes. In one examp Read More
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What issue got 2,000 rural upstate New Yorkers fired up enough to rally Sunday (under threatening skies) in opposition to a bill sponsored by who represents many of them in Congress? . Read More
"China's much-vaunted stimulus package has exacerbated structural imbalances in the economy and may delay the country's transition to a more sustainable growth model. ... [M]ost of the stimulus [has] gone to the state sector." -- Financial Times Read More
The unemployment rate in New York City jumped to 9.6 percent in July, up two-tenths of a percentage point since June, and the highest level in twelve years, even as the state figure fell slightly, to 8.6 percent from 8.7 percent, the state's Labor D Read More
Writing in today's Post, New York Building Congress head Richard Anderson Gov. Paterson against signing a bill that would change governance procedures at the state's public authorities. One main complaint, which Anderson calls a "fatal flaw Read More
Private employment has dropped nine times faster than state and local government employment in New York since last year, according to by the Albany-based Rockefeller Institute. But the national trend showed even more of a disparity between the priv Read More
Payroll files for 384 Public Authorities have been posted on www.SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire Center’s government transparency web site for taxpayers.The new data includes names, titles, base pay rates and total pay received for most of the 44,320 public authority employees added today. Read More
Mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, currently the city comptroller, suggested privately to one of the city's powerhouse labor unions that the Taylor Law, which has governed public-sector labor relations in New York State for 42 years (with various amendments along the way), needs reform. Read More