State Senator Mike Nozzolio is calling on Congress to block President Obama's immigration order, which he says could cost the state $2 billion a year, a much higher figure than what most experts predict. Read More
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As New York’s state legislators consider holding a special session to give themselves a raise, an Albany–based think tank reports that most of them are already paid more than their often-cited base pay of $79,500. Read More
New York's state legislators haven't had a pay raise since 1999, when "The Matrix" and Whitney Houston were topping the charts. Read More
Since Election Day, the state Capitol has been buzzing at the prospect of lawmakers returning before the end of the year to vote themselves a pay raise. Read More
Republicans in the state Senate are claiming that the new federal immigration order could end up costing New York as much as $2 billion in Medicaid costs. Read More
"It's obvious that there is going to have been some movement in tolls on the Thruway. The question is who pays, how much, how soon," said E.J. McMahon, president of the Empire Center for New York Policy, who analyzed the documents. Read More
When the Empire Center posted a list on its website of the 665 public employees “double dipping” — or collecting public sector pensions while getting paid for other public sector jobs — Herkimer County’s Dr. Vinay Patil emerged as one of the highest-paid at $210,000 annually. Read More
In New York, the legislature generally convenes between January and June. Lawmakers are allowed to have outside jobs, and income is unlimited. Their base pay is the third highest in the U.S., behind California and Pennsylvania, according to the Empire Center for Public Policy, which favors less government spending. Read More