As Governor Hochul calls for spending restraint next year, influential hospital lobbyists are pushing what could be the costliest budget request ever floated in Albany. In a , Read More
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Most school board members in New York's largest school districts were elected with teachers' union support and many are themselves teachers' union members. Read More
Months after lowering the scores to pass state assessment exams, New York education officials are considering eliminating the Regents diploma. Read More
New York’s plan to steer homeowners and landlords toward electric heat could backfire due to high costs and practical concerns Read More
Last week Governor Hochul answered one big question about her Commission on the Future of Health Care – the names of its members – but left a fundamental mystery unresolved: Read More
The state's Medicaid program has effectively been double-paying for prescription drugs for the past six months due to a glitch with the roll-out of its pharmacy "carve-out." Si Read More
A total of 864 New York City employees last year collected more than $100,000 each in overtime, with nine of them—including three NYCHA plumbers—collecting over $200,000 each. Read More
Dr. Gerald Benjamin, one of the top authority's on New York state and local government, makes the case for changing how villages are created as two related bills head to Gov. Hochul's desk. Read More
The renewable-power fantasy is being blown apart by furious financial headwinds. Already this year projects have tumbled in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts, and now Danish wind-power giant Over and over, the litany of causes is th Read More
A package of proposed regulations that included a $10.18 fee for filling most drug prescriptions was withdrawn Tuesday by the Department of Financial Services in the face of broad opposition. Read More
School districts have used more than 400 special meetings—votes held outside the regular May and November election days—since 2011 to approve nearly $9 billion in spending, including about $2 billion last year. Read More
As the long-time top aide to former Governor Andrew Cuomo, Melissa DeRosa ought to have useful information to share about the state's pandemic response – especially about what went wrong and how the state could be be Read More