The Post's E.J. Kessler has a good up today about the race for who will succeed mayoral candidate Bill Thompson as city comptroller. Kessler observes that of the four candidates, all City Council members, trying for the Democratic nominati Read More
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The Paterson Administration is backing off on plans to (finally) start collecting taxes on cigarettes sold by American Indian retailers, the Buffalo News . This will add $65 million in red ink to The decision drew immediate Read More
S&P has a new report out with some calculations surrounding the MTA's forthcoming 2010-2014 capital plan, . The plan is $28 billion, 20 percent bigger than the program for 2005 through 2009. Of the $28 billion, $9.9 billion -- 35 percent --� Read More
Nicole has today on how last week's budget-busting arbitration award to transit workers has underscored the need for more openness in public-sector collective bargaining. If the MTA had had to release details of its generous offers in t Read More
Since last July, inflationprices (including food and energy) are down 2.1 percent for the nation, and 1.1 percent in New York, the BLS . If this rate keeps up for the rest of the year, the Trans Read More
Barely three months after the state Legislature approved a $2.3 billion package of tax and fee hikes to bail out the financially troubled Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), members of the MTA's largest union have been awarded a pay increase that will break the authority's tenuously balanced budget. Read More
As the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority launched negotiations with the Transport Workers Union last year for a new three-year labor agreement, one of the authority's biggest goals was to win the right to run "one-person trains" -- that Read More
Updated school labor contracts for 77 teacher unions and 86 school superintendents were posted today on SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire Center’s government transparency web site. Read More