The vagaries of the calendar have extended this year's income-tax filing deadlines to midnight tomorrow, April 17. New Yorkers, especially, can use the extra time to cope with their state's increasingly complex and confusing tax code. Read More
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The state Assembly has issued an official list of 2007-08 "Legislative Initiatives" -- a.k.a. member items, or pork-barrel spending. The list can be downloaded . For the first time in a regular state budget cycle, the list discloses the names of s Read More
New York’s recently enacted state budget for 2007-08 includes more than $219 million in appropriations for the state Legislature. At that rate, the New York State Legislature now costs more than $1 million per member — making it one of the best-paid and most expensive legislative bodies in the nation. Read More
E.J. McMahon, director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, was interviewed by Oswego public radio station WRVO on the subject of Gov. Spitzer's executive order paving the way for powerful public employee unions to organize home-based, government- Read More
Gov. Spitzer has signed an executive order that will allow two of New York's most powerful public employee unions to organize groups of government-subsidized in-home day-care workers. E.J. McMahon, director of the Empire Center, dissected the cost Read More
New York's total average tax burden has reached the highest level on record for the Empire State, according to an analysis of Tax Foundation data by the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center for Public Policy. The shows the combined federal, state Read More
On the heels of a 14 per cent hike in medical- malpractice rates, Gov. Spitzer has directed his insurance superintendent to form a task force to "confront the fundamental drivers" of high medical-malpractice costs. Read More
FY 2005, in millions New York ranks third of all states Read More