Category: Media Coverage

The Empire Center, a government watchdog group, maintains this database -- a list of every state employee using a Section 211 waiver to cash-in twice. Read More

In all this, the gov is a creature of Albany, with (to quote the Empire Center’s E.J. McMahon) its “age-old willingness to kick the can down the road.” Read More

"The primary source of new toll revenue for the new bridge should be the people who will benefit from the bridge," McMahon said. Read More

"This is just an out-and-out giveaway to a wealthy industry" that has pumped generous donations into the campaign accounts of politicians, McMahon said. Read More

On Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo rankled upstate leaders when he suggested the full state Thruway system will pay for the new $4 billion Tappan Zee Bridge downstate. Read More

With the debate over the fate of Obamacare raging on Capitol Hill, the Slant podcast featured a health care debate of it own, over the creation a single-payer system here in New York. Read More

Since they will affect the lives of millions of New Yorkers, all public policy issues under consideration in Albany deserve some debate. Read More

Keep your hand on your wallet: The Legislature is back in session, and lawmakers are addicted to doling out taxpayer cash to their pet causes — while wiping away their fingerprints. As the Empire Center for Public Policy noted last week, the state Senate and Assembly managed to funnel $52 million to “hand-picked recipients” — via 1,782 pork-barrel projects — in the waning hours of the normal legislative session. Read More