Crisis averted. With just four and a half hours and two votes to spare, the state Senate on Monday passed Gov. David Paterson's 11th temporary budget extender needed to keep the state operating. In doing so, it also approved more than $325 mill Read More
The Empire Center today is out with a new section on its government spending website that lists pensions for retired New York State employees. As the fiscally conservative think tank has done with salaries of government agencies, it made a list of th Read More
Two weeks ago, The Empire Center offered a glimpse into MTA employees' payroll data, like the one train conductor who was paid $239,148. Now the non-profit think tank has added a pension search system to its government transparency website SeeThrough Read More
You probably don’t need to see this right now, what with the state deficit, threatened layoffs, school aid cuts, highway delays, and so on. But it’s lunchtime, and time to check the Albany bloggers. The DN’s Daily Politics gets extra dessert Read More
The Empire Center has out a new database of the pensions of 342,543 New York State retirees on SeeThroughNY.net, and I gotta say it looks to me like the party's at George M. Philip's house. Philip, former executive director of the NYS Teachers' Re Read More
An article in the Journal News today [READ: Lower Hudson Valley has 25 of top 100 municipal pensions in state] indicated that 25 Westchester employees are among the top retirees who earned the highest pensions in the State of New York. The article re Read More
New York State's ballooning deficit is stressing under the weight of high-powered pensions. Believe it or not, some pensioners are also collecting hefty paychecks! You could say some retirees are living large on the backs of taxpayers. They're col Read More
While New York is mired in a multi-billion dollar deficit, hundreds of state retirees are pulling in six-figure pensions. The Empire Center for New York State Police is the organization that recently compiled the pensions paid to 340,000 state wor Read More