Category: Media Coverage

The creation of counties in the original 13 colonies came from a desire to keep the peace and pay taxes to England.   While the country has gained its independence, the business of maintaining law and order has remained the highest priorit Read More

ALBANY - New figures reveal that the tax burden for New Yorkers has never been higher. The combined federal, state and local tax bite on New York residents this year averages 37.1 percent of their income, according to the Manhattan Institute's Emp Read More

The winds of economic change are blowing: French voters want their country to be more like America - even as Eliot Spitzer seeks to reshape New York's economy into something very much resembling the failed French model. Spitzer wants to impose wha Read More

Joseph Bruno has survived his share of grilling by reporters over the years, but nothing prepared him for the doozy of a question posed by a NY1 reporter last week. "Where would you cut spending, if you had to?" the reporter, Joshua Robin, asked t Read More

Gov. Eliot Spitzer said yesterday that he would start negotiations over next year’s budget in November, two months earlier than is traditional in Albany, arguing that an early start would allow more of the talks to be public and minimize the last-m Read More

Governor Spitzer's plan to attempt to link state spending to economic growth is getting a cold reaction from budget watchdog groups, which are urging Mr. Spitzer to set a more ambitious long-term goal of fiscal restraint. Mr. Spitzer said yesterda Read More

For years, the more than 200,000 nannies, housekeepers and other domestic workers in New York State have been exempt from many basic labor protections. But now 55 immigrant groups, labor unions and other organizations are trying to change that by Read More

The average New York City family spends far more on health care than families in other parts of the country, a recent national study of medical costs shows. Annual health care spending for a typical family of four in New York enrolled in an employ Read More