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Along with an on-time budget, Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to quickly get savings from state employee contracts for the 2011 fiscal year that begins April 1. Informal talks between top aides and union officials have already started in an attempt to get Read More
More than 2,100 state employees collected both salaries and pensions last year, with 35 of them receiving more than $200,000 in combined compensation, a review of state records shows. About 30 employees are also listed on the payroll of two state Read More
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo just proposed a 2011-12 state budget that seeks to close a deficit of nearly $10 billion. As a result, state agencies and employees, public schools, health-care providers and anyone else who relies in whole or part on th Read More
It’s a solution of apparent Alexandrian elegance and simplicity: Empower America’s cash-strapped states to slice cleanly through a strangling knot of debilitating debt and government union cronyism by letting them file for bankruptcy. Long-term l Read More
Here are follow-ups on two important topics: public pension guarantees and taxes in New York driving people elsewhere.... Read More
When our children do wrong, we’re taught as parents to place our focus on the action, not the child. It’s a way of sending a message that while we find certain behavior unacceptable, it does not change the love and respect we have for that chi Read More
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has nominated Brian Stratton, the mayor of Schenectady, to run the state’s canal system. Cuomo announced the nomination on Wednesday; The Business Review first reported Stratton was heading to the New York State Canal Read More