The big spending bill heading for a vote in Washington this week would scramble the outlook for Medicaid in next year's state budget, mostly for the better. The $1.7 trillion f Read More
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The Climate Action Council’s approval Monday of a Scoping Plan for implementing the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) doesn’t solve — or even address — the state’s looming Read More
Propane and gas furnaces may soon disappear from New Yorkers’ homes, even if they want to keep them. On December 19, the New York State Climate Action Council (Council) approved a 24-chapter, 445-page Scoping Plan to implement the state’s so-c Read More
New York’s part-time senators and assemblymembers are poised to give themselves a 29 percent pay increase that would make them, by far, the highest paid state Legislature. Read More
In the first federal income-tax year affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, New York State's share of the nation's highest-earning filers dropped sharply. Read More
Nearing the end of the COVID-19 era's second year, New York remained more than a quarter-million private jobs below its February 2020 peak level Read More
A staff shortage in upstate hospitals prompted , where hospital officials and state lawmakers asked that more funding to train medical professionals be included in January’s sta Read More
The attorney general's just-filed lawsuit against the Villages of Orleans nursing home has implications that reach far beyond a single facility in western New York. In addition Read More