Category: Commentary

The pandemic and its fiscal aftermath have given rise — temporarily — to a state budget trend unique in New York’s history. Read More

New York state officials this week took their most serious step yet to limit the state’s greenhouse-gas emissions. But they also showed they are more serious about taking care of one of Read More

Nassau County taxpayers face what could be a $109 million bill. When will they be allowed to see the details? Read More

Christakis remarked on the website that graduate students, now moving to unionize at the school, are not ordinary worker. Read More

If a government agency loses $11 billion, do New York’s legislators make a sound? That’s the question in Albany after Comptroller Tom DiNapoli issued his investigation into what was likely the most expensive administrative mishap in state hist Read More

There’s been a lot of discussion about crime in the race for New York’s attorney general — but not the violation of law committed at the attorney general’s office earlier this year. Read More

New York bureaucrats are ditching standards for what children in public schools should learn. Why are they increasing their imposition on yeshivas? Read More

If it’s not yet a failure, the commission to revamp the Long Island Power Authority is at least already a fiasco.  Read More