state budget
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Opinion
Don’s health care transparency fix, Hochul punts on spending cuts and other commentary
Health desk: Don’s Health Care Transparency Fix President Trump’s “executive order requiring ‘radical’ healthcare price transparency,” cheer Arthur B. Laffer…
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Stories
NY’s new budget soars to record $254B — and here’s why it might go even higher
ALBANY – Gov. Kathy Hochul signed off on a record-smashing $254 billion state budget deal Friday — though a lack of…
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Opinion
Hochul’s sneaky MTA tax hike is a job-killing train wreck
Gov. Hochul’s latest job-killing tax hike, like the subway it funds, will mostly run beneath the surface. The state-controlled, perennially…
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Opinion
Banning smartphones in schools is a win for Gov. Hochul and NY kids
Another win for Gov. Kathy Hochul in the state budget talks is her “bell-to-bell” cellphone ban — even if it…
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Stories
State Assembly getting behind assisted suicide proposal
ALBANY — New York state lawmakers are getting behind a proposal to legalize assisted suicide, The Post has learned. Assembly Speaker…
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Stories
Albany close to deal on new taxes to fund MTA capital plan
State lawmakers and Gov. Kathy Hochul are finalizing a plan to ding New Yorkers’ pocketbooks to help fund the MTA’s…
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Opinion
Hochul’s no-brainer fixes make NY’s radical discovery law less insane
State legislators have the opportunity this week to make the Empire State more stable — and a place of greater…
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Stories
Hochul willing to hold up NY budget ‘as long as it takes’ to pass discovery changes, involuntary commitment: aide
She’s in for the long haul. Gov. Kathy Hochul is willing to hold up the state’s spending plan “as long…
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Opinion
New Yorkers must pray that the state budget standstill lasts for a good long time
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie grumbled to reporters last week that state budget talks are “kind of at a standstill” because…
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Opinion
Kathy Hochul, lawmakers steering New York into a fiscal train wreck
Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers are about to ram through one of the most reckless spending plans in New…
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