The city and state are seeing windfalls of cash from higher-than-expected tax collections that will make negotiating next year's budgets less painful for Mayor Bloomberg and Governor-elect Spitzer and could make it easier for the new governor to impl Read More
Of the $52 million the Assembly has doled out this year from its declassified Community Projects Fund, Assemblyman Paul Tonko can take credit for but a modest slice, $130,000, which he has fed in morsels to fire departments, school districts, a cemet Read More
News of a good year, performance-wise, at Goldman Sachs and of compensation to match for the firm's employees and executives has set some of our competitors — and no doubt, plenty of other New Yorkers — into singing carols of socialism. The New Y Read More
Advocates for more pro-growth policies in New York will get new ammunition today with the release of a report from the U.S. Census Bureau showing that the Empire State was one of only a handful of states that lost population this year, with thousands Read More
In his first State of the State address, Gov. Eliot Spitzer issued a clarion call to New York's Legislature to "end the culture of spending that is out of control." It is a message other governors — most notably fellow Democrat Hugh Carey in 197 Read More
The city comptroller, William Thompson Jr., is in the final stages of studying whether the city's five pension funds should start investing in hedge funds. The comptroller raised the possibility of the change in investment policy during a speech a Read More
ALBANY - The overtime queen of state government is a mental-hospital nurse who made almost twice her salary in extra pay last year. Olukemi Akinyemi, who works at Bronx Psychiatric Center, made $93,581 in overtime on a base salary of $50,187, acco Read More
Senator Schumer sets out a lofty set of policy goals in his new book, but political analysts say almost all of them will be difficult, if not impossible, to accomplish. Mr. Schumer uses his book, "Positively American," to apply his "50% solution" Read More