New York scores a mediocre number 36 on Based on 40 measures of competitiveness grouped into 10 categories, the Empire State ranked dead last in "Cost of Business" and "Workforce," the latter apparently weighted heavily by New York's high unionizatio Read More
Under , "university employees are facing unpaid furloughs." They would join California's 230,000-plus state workers who will continue to be forced to take off three unpaid days per month through June 2010. The furloughs equate to roug Read More
Today's from state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says first quarter tax collections were $487 million below projections, in line with the trend reflected in Taxation and Finance data . DiNapoli's chose to focus on the bright side, noting that gene Read More
Don't look now, but there's a nasty pool of red ink spreading beneath the state's budget. If are any indication of things to come, Governor Paterson and the state Legislature need to start cutting right away. Read More
New York experienced one of the biggest declines in tax revenues of any state during the first quarter of 2009, when the overall plunge in state tax collections was the worst on record, according to from the . Read More
The state comptroller's cash report for the first quarter ought to be coming out any day now -- perhaps as soon as today. Tax collections through June are likely to have fallen below the April 1 projections for the quarter, feeding the widespread a Read More
The Empire State will "shell out nearly $1 million to construct signs to put up near stimulus-funded projects, just to tell us it's a stimulus-funded project," . Governor Paterson doesn't seem to have a problem with it, though. Read More
My suggests an alternative to . Read More