Category: Media Coverage

As difficult as it is to say "no" to funding for education, we don't believe that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Smart Schools initiative is the right approach for New York. Read More

The proposal has its critics, including E.J. McMahon, president of the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank. McMahon said it is unwise to issue bonds to purchase high-tech equipment that will become obsolete with new technological advances, often within a period of a few years. "It's as if the state had gone out and proposed a bond issue 50 years ago to buy overhead projectors and film-strip machines," McMahon said. Read More

“It's probably the most poorly conceived and wasteful bond proposal we've had in New York in over 20 years,” Empire Center President EJ McMahon said. Read More

Empire Center President E.J. McMahon spoke with Fred Dicker about the problems with Prop 3. Read More

E.J. McMahon spoke with John Gambling on WNYM about the problems with Prop 3. Read More

Empire Center President E.J. McMahon sat down with Susan Arbetter to talk about the problems with Prop 3. Read More

But E.J. McMahon, president of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank in Albany, said the state already had a generous tech budget for schools. He called the plan “probably the most ill-conceived and wasteful bond act that’s been proposed in New York for decades.” Read More

The Corrections Department and other state agencies need to keep in mind the short- and long-term burden to taxpayers as they operate, said Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Albany-based Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative government watchdog group. "Every decision you make that has to do with a public employee goes back to a taxpayer," said Hoefer. Read More