There is a sentence in the budget bills that appears to make it easier for retired police officers to double dip as school resource officers. Current state law allows retired police to take both a full salary and a pension if they are approved by Read More
The state Education Department has denied a request by the Hempstead school district for a waiver for new Superintendent Susan Johnson -- part of the process required by law to employ an early retiree. Johnson, 60, who returned to the position she Read More
Budget critics Friday assailed a new pension contribution plan agreed to by the governor and the comptroller to allow cash-poor local governments to try to borrow their way out of fiscal problems. Under a tentative budget deal, the state would off Read More
When it comes to villages paying employees, Fredonia tops the list in Chautauqua County. In Chautauqua County, there are 15 incorporated villages: Bemus Point, Brocton, Cassadaga, Celoron, Cherry Creek, Falconer, Forestville, Fredonia, Lakewood, M Read More
New York's budget that lawmakers will begin voting into law this weekend is based on their power to stop a sunset. Two sunsets, in fact. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature are stopping the scheduled end, or sunset, of a temporary income tax Read More
By renewing New York's "millionaires' " tax, Democratic Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo risks alienating independents, a growing force on the national political stage whose votes he would need for a possible 2016 presidential campaign, analysts said. His str Read More
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders are including in the soon-to-be-passed state budget a new system to help finance political campaigns. They call it the “Family Tax Relief” act. Lawmakers and the governor last week agreed to give Read More
Time, like money, is flexible when it comes to the way the state defines a "temporary" tax or fee. As lawmakers debate extension of what was supposed to be a three-year-long millionaires tax, New Yorkers face paying a whole roster of other tempora Read More