For Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, the arduous budget battle that was concluded on Tuesday with the passage of one of the tardiest budgets in state history could serve as a preview of next year. Mr. Cuomo, who is the Democratic nominee for gove Read More
The money is restricted to avoiding layoffs, but Iannuzzi said it comes after a difficult process in which taxpayers and districts already made hard choices to cut their school budgets. He said the additional money only allows districts to delay the Read More
Mark these words: The newly minted $136.5 billion state budget won't go out of whack. That's from Gov. David Paterson, who on Thursday promised the state budget - finally completed on Tuesday after a four-month delay - will remain in balance thank Read More
In a bid to help local governments survive the lingering effects of the economic meltdown, New York State has authorized early-retirement incentives that could total up to three extra years' pension credit to get longtime public employees out the doo Read More
Business First has previously posted databases that list the salaries paid to school employees and municipal workers throughout Western New York. Here’s the third side of the triangle -- a database of total compensation for 20,437 county employe Read More
Ten educators in the Kingston school district, many of whom Board of Education member Maureen Bowers described as “the cream of the crop,” have retired under the state’s Part A retirement incentive initiative. The board last week accepted th Read More
he new $198,510-a-year deputy superintendent of the Port Authority Police Department is a double dipper who has been collecting a hefty tax-free NYPD disability pension for 13 years while working as a top cop in New Jersey, The Post has learned. J Read More