Month: June 2010

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I’m very fond of Belleayre. It was built in 1949 by the State of New York. I have a picture of my mother and myself standing outside the lodge about eight years later, when I was 10 years old. Except for the funny old-fashioned clothes, it doesn Read More

The Long Island Power Authority Thursday rescinded a previously approved plan to give most of its employees 2 percent pay raises for 2010, officials said. At a LIPA trustees meeting where interim chairman Howard Steinberg was formally named chairm Read More

New York has not always had the distinction of being the only state with a fiscal year that begins April 1. The start date was changed from Oct. 1 to July 1 in 1916. It has been April 1 since 1943, but now there is a push from some lawmakers to chang Read More

Not everyone felt the effects of the fiscal crisis last year: Some state workers more than tripled their salaries with massive amounts of overtime. Three employees actually topped $100,000 in extra pay alone, and four exceeded $90,000, the state c Read More

The price of providing state workers with generous pensions and gold-plated health plans could reach a mind-boggling $7.9 billion by 2012 -- a 42 percent increase over the current tab, state budget documents show. The Paterson administration expec Read More

Office expenditures of individual state Senators and Assembly members for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009 have been posted in a searchable format on the Empire Center’s government transparency web site, SeeThroughNY.net. Read More

Sen. Michael Nozzolio and Assemblyman Joseph Morelle were the biggest spending among the Rochester area’s state legislators during the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009, an Albany-based, nonpartisan think tank reported Tuesday. Office expenditur Read More