As Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo prepares to take office amid the public's resounding mandate for change, he knows that the myriad challenges facing business leaders, professionals, agricultural workers and others in the work force is daunting. The times i Read More
Cayuga County legislators voted in August to reduce their official work week from 35 to 30 hours. Because pension time is calculated by dividing salary by hours worked, the change resulted in a slight bump in the small pensions they will receive. Read More
Following a board meeting earlier in November which saw some criticism from the public surrounding the "under the table" hiring of a former school administrator, the Board of Education on Tuesday night approved the hiring of Joseph Singleton to a par Read More
Two recent news stories may not seem to be related, but they raise an important issue about the role of news media in the great debate over government spending and the public workforce.... Read More
Cuomo's preliminary pension padding report suggested that one way to curb the practice is for municipalities to cut overtime budgets. Schenectady already has halved much of its police and fire overtime budget for 2011 to respond to the city's current Read More
Will New Yorkers ever see relief from soaring taxes? Apparently not. That's the depressing message coming from Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, who's reportedly pushing for a hike in the county's sales tax, perhaps by a quarter of a point. Read More
Even as he urged lawmakers to help him cut spending, Gov. David Paterson last week quietly authorized $16.7 million in grants from a fund he controls -- to pay for chess tournaments in New York City, foreign trade offices in Chile and Australia, and Read More
Our pension costs are about to explode," said Empire Center for NYS Policy Director E.J. McMahon. It may be a complicated topic, but a new Empire Center for Public Policy report says state pensions are threatening New York State's financial health Read More