Category: Media Coverage

Where have all the kids gone? The number of students enrolled in New York state public schools is the lowest recorded in 30 years, a new Empire Center for Public Policy study released Tuesday reveals. Read More

The new replacement policy, which was tucked into a press release announcing new plate designs, has been criticized as a "revenue enhancer wrapped in a public relations ploy" by E.J. McMahon of the fiscally conservative Empire Center for Public Policy. Read More

“That indicates that the program is a money-making opportunity,” Bill Hammond, director of health policy at the Empire Center for Public Policy, previously told the Albany Times Union. Read More

“That’s one heck of an incentive,” said E.J. McMahon, research director for the Empire Center for Public Policy, the organization that publicized the MTA’s alarmingly high overtime rate in an April MTA payroll report. Read More

“Cuomo has discretion to waive or reduce the fee, which is ‘not to exceed $25,'” E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany-based fiscally conservative think tank, said on Twitter, referring to the statute. Read More

“Obvious trolling aside, the subtitle of this plate doesn’t make much sense,” E.J. McMahon of the conservative Empire Center for Public Policy quipped. Read More

ALBANY — A judge has ordered a public pension fund to reveal the names of most retired New York City police officers receiving pensions, according to a decision that a government watchdog group called a huge win for taxpayers. Read More

Elon Musk and his SolarCity factory in Buffalo came under fire in a Vanity Fair article on Sunday suggesting that the Tesla CEO has fallen short on promises to create an economy-reviving, job-creating success story for Western New York. And an ominous, ambiguous threat at the end of the article hints that the state has had it up to here. Read More