Businesses across the state will soon see a dramatic jump in taxes and rent as local governments face suffocating increases in pension costs. The plunge on the stock market will trigger years of higher pension contribution rates for municipalities Read More
Albany, New York – Governor Paterson has called for a five way public leaders meeting on September 23rd to try to come up with a plan to close the $2.1 billion dollar state budget deficit. The call comes amid signs that some state lawmakers want to Read More
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson is strongly considering yanking state cars from agency heads to help close a $2.1 billion budget deficit. The budget division posted an announcement on its Web site this week announcing that agency commissioners would lose t Read More
Your tax dollars fund their positions. Now, the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center for Public Policy has posted salary datafor the more than 179,000 people who work for New York's counties, cities, towns, and villages... Read More
Oneida County has the highest average government salary, $39,795, of its Mohawk Valley counterparts. That was just one of the facts unveiled by the Empire Center for Public Policy Friday as information was released on the names and salaries for all o Read More
What do a suspended Schenectady police officer, Albany County's health commissioner and several psychiatrists in Saratoga County have in common? They are all among the highest-paid municipal employees in the Capital Region, according to payroll da Read More
Employees of the village of Lake Placid had the highest average salary among the 41 villages in the North Country in 2008-09. That's just one of the findings in a report released Friday by the Empire Center for Public Policy, a think tank that has Read More
Provides look at true cost of providing government services How much does a cop make? How about the guy plowing your road or helping you fill out forms at the town clerks’s office? If you want to know, it’s a mouseclick or two away. See Read More