Category: Commentary

Chazy Hardware had only one electric generator in stock when a 1998 ice storm left much of northern New York state without power for days. The store's owners found more in Vermont and resold them for a premium to cover its extra costs, little knowing Read More

Public Service Commissioner John Howard recently warned that the state’s climate-action scheme will cost New Yorkers “hundreds of billions of dollars” Read More

For 20 straight years, the New York state budget was late — stretching well past the April 1 deadline, sometimes even into summer or fall. That streak was broken in 2011. It was then that lawmakers in Albany assured New Yorkers that the days of thr Read More

In declaring that a state budget deal — albeit a tardy and undercooked one — was finally at hand, Gov. Hochul was oddly flanked at her Thursday afternoon press conference not by the Legislature’s leaders, but only Lieutenant Gov. Brian Benjamin Read More

For the second consecutive time, a court-appointed special master will handle New York’s congressional redistricting. Read More

New Yorkers are aghast that the Buffalo Bills stadium deal, which will fill the pockets of a wealthy NFL team owner with their tax dollars, is in the state budget the Legislature just adopted. Read More

It’s bad enough that the budget agreement announced Thursday night by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will shower more than $1 billion of the public’s money on a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills, a billionaire-owned football franchise that competes i Read More

While Tier 6 wasn’t the “bold and transformational” breakthrough touted by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2012, it was a solid net positive for taxpayers Read More