Albany legislators steered over $83 million in grants to 293 local projects between April and December 2025 , according to under a Freedom of Information Law request. The governor and state legislators hand-picked the grantees fo Read More
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As Washington threatens to crack down on fraud and abuse in New York's Medicaid program, state legislators are doing their best to demonstrate why federal intervention is needed. Read More
Some of New York's largest and most prosperous hospitals are reporting rapidly growing amounts of revenue from pharmacy sales – most of it apparently flowing from a controversial drug discount program known as 340B. Read More
As state lawmakers consider enhancing retirement benefits for government workers, fresh data from the Empire Center confirm that existing pensions are generous compared to national norms. Read More
Today marks the sixth anniversary of a fateful moment in New York's coronavirus pandemic: the Cuomo administration's order sending Covid-infected patients into nursing homes. O Read More
On Friday, Gov. Kathy Hochul finally started tiptoeing toward reality on New York’s climate law. In a lengthy opinion column, she laid out her proposal to postpone by a decade the state’s stringent greenhouse-gas emissions rules, set by law to Read More
New York’s of state and local government union contracts has been updated with the latest collective bargaining agreements for local teachers, police, firefighters, libraries, and public authorities. Among the on SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire C Read More
Federal data show that prices in the New York metropolitan area are not only high, but rising faster than the national average. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index for the New York–Newark–Jersey City ar Read More