Category: Commentary

How should we pay for cleaning up downstate New York’s energy supply, and who should foot the bill? Read More

The Legislature last week put a new spin on the debate over “mayoral control” of New York City’s schools by shackling the Big Apple with a costly class-size mandate. Read More

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