How much money retirees receive from pension systems in New York will be made public under a ruling Tuesday by the state's highest court. The 6-to-0 decision by the state Court of Appeals is the culmination of a legal battle for years over whether the public has a right to know how much employees in state and local governments and schools get annually when they retire. Read More
New York's highest court Tuesday ordered that the names of retired teachers, police officers and other government workers be released publicly in a case that tested the power of the state Freedom of Information Law. Read More
Overtime pay boosted eight Port Authority police officers' salaries over $300,000 last year, and overall, 11 officers each earned more than the chairmen in New York and New Jersey who ran the two-state agency. Read More
The state's highest court ruled Wednesday that the names but not the addresses of retirees who receive public pensions must be disclosed according to the provisions of New York's Freedom of Information Law. Read More
New York’s highest court on Tuesday held that the names of state and local government retirees receiving pensions may not be shielded from the public. The 6-0 decision by the New York Court of Appeals, which reversed a consistent string of lower court rulings, was a setback to public employee unions in the state that have fought for years to prevent a conservative fiscal watchdog group in Albany from collecting the pension records and including them in a searchable database. Read More
In a great advance for the taxpayers’ right to know, New York’s highest court ruled unanimously that the names of state and local pensioners, and the amounts of their retirement payments, are a matter of public record. Read More
Score a victory for transparency, a precious commodity in Albany these days. More important, score a big win for New York taxpayers. That’s our take on a unanimous decision Tuesday by the Court of Appeals, our state’s highest judicial body, ruling that the public has the right to know the names of retirees receiving public pensions. Read More
Kathy Miller and her family moved to New York from Pennsylvania. She said they discovered that just about everything here is more expensive. "Income tax is the biggest," said Miller, of Ballston Lake. "It's double here than it is in Pennsylvania. Property taxes, school taxes, groceries, gas, even our car insurance is more in New York State." Read More