state budget
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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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Stories
Hochul pitches more prison closures amid riots and illegal corrections officers strike
Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing that up to five more New York state prisons be closed — in what critics…
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Opinion
cash for unions, cuts for autistic kids
My wife Susie startled me with a question the other week as she scrolled through a WhatsApp chat group for…
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Opinion
Make this hemisphere great again, free our schools and more commentary
Foreign desk: Make This Hemisphere Great Again “It’s no accident that my first trip abroad as secretary of state” kept…
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Opinion
Hochul’s $252 billion budget sets fire to taxpayer money
If insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result, then Gov. Kathy Hochul belongs in…
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Stories
Mobility tax, other fees to prop up flailing MTA even after congestion toll
Gov. Kathy Hochul is considering hiking a dreaded tax on businesses to prop up the flailing Metropolitan Transportation Authority in…
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