State regulators last week shot down efforts by utilities to show ratepayers the amount by which their electric bills are being driven up by New York's new Clean Energy Standard. Read More
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Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget pulls the plug on the state’s disappointing START-UP NY program. Read More
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget makes important changes to several secretive slush funds first brought to light by the Empire Center. Read More
The state Public Service Commission has quietly reduced the amount of renewable energy that utilities will have to purchase next year by 94 percent. Read More
Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill that marks the most substantial improvement to the Freedom of Information Law in years, limiting the amount of time that public entities can stall a FOIL request after a judge has ordered the release of public records. Read More
The latest progress report from START-UP NY shows it’s losing participants almost as quickly as it’s adding them. Read More
New York’s local property tax cap has become an issue in a hotly contested Hudson Valley congressional race, where a specious anti-cap argument rejected by state courts has been revived by the Democratic candidate, Zephyr Teachout. Read More
Some of New York’s worst tendencies in bargaining with government unions were on display yesterday in Buffalo—even before the school board illegally took things behind closed doors. Read More