Here's a lesson in living large: More than 1,000 suburban school administrators and teachers have retired with pensions above $100,000 a year. And Long Island is the home of super-sized school pensions. Eight of the top 10 New York state school re Read More
The men who used to lead the Fayetteville-Manlius and Liverpool school districts are among the top 100 highest-paid pensioners in the New York State Teachers Retirement Fund, according to the latest data base made public by a policy group. Philip Read More
There are a few new names on the list, but Long Islanders still dominate the public pensions sweepstakes - 14 of the state's top 20 pension recipients retired from Long Island school districts, according to state data. Two years after Newsday repo Read More
COUNTY EXECUTIVE GREG EDWARDS TO MEET WITH COUNTY BUSINESSES THIS FRIDAY With the state in a fiscal crisis and the effect reverberating to the local level the Chamber will be hosting a meeting of the business community with County Executive Greg E Read More
Suburban school districts Tuesday presented voters with budgets that sharply curb spending growth in an ticipation of deep cuts in aid from Albany -- and 92 percent of them passed. This is significant -- but not in the way Albany's spenders are li Read More
Voters on Tuesday approved budget proposals in more than 90 percent of the state’s school districts, according to the state Education Department and the New York State School Boards Association. The numbers provided by the two entities differed Read More
An article in The Times today details how “errors, misunderstandings and wishful thinking” have caused public pension costs in New York State to explode. The problem is not limited to New York or to the fiscal crisis poster state, California, who Read More