State Department of Labor safety and health inspectors are available for free on-site safety and health inspections in areas hit hard by Superstorm Sandy, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this week. The inspections will save businesses money and help them reopen as soon as possible. Businesses can schedule free inspections by… Read More →
A lawyer for the Westchester County Board of Legislators has withdrawn a lawsuit filed against County Executive Rob Astorino last September that challenged a freeze in applications to the county’s subsidized child care programs. The notice of discontinuance was dated Jan. 10. The lawsuit was the second that the board… Read More →
Assembly Democrats and the coalition of Republicans and Democrats controlling the state Senate say they want to pass a state budget by March 21. Hitting their goal would give the state its earliest budget since 1983, according to Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos, R-Nassau County. The state’s budget is due… Read More →
More than 89,000 life insurance beneficiaries have received more than $665 million as a result of an investigation the state Department of Financial Services began in July 2011, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The recipients were unaware they were entitled to money from the insurance companies, he said. Of the… Read More →
Gov. Andrew Cuomo once said, “I am the government,” but he isn’t been paid like it. According to the Empire Center for New York State Policy, 1,493 state employees earned more money than Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s $179,000 salary in 2012. That’s up 33 percent from 2010, the report yesterday said…. Read More →
Former Sen. Shirley Huntley, a Queens Democrat who was ousted in a primary last year, pleaded guilty Huntley to federal charges that she embezzled $87,700 in public funds for personal use. Huntley was a state senator from 2007 through 2012, when she was first charged. Her plea Wednesday leaves her… Read More →
The state Thruway Authority said it plans to lay off 234 employees amid its fiscal woes. The layoffs come as the Albany-based Thruway Authority seeks to pare costs after it decided last month to drop plans for a 45 percent toll increase on truck traffic on the 570-mile thoroughfare. “There… Read More →
A coalition of community, labor, faith, student and Occupy groups is calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature to close several corporate tax loopholes members consider unfair. Doing so would raise nearly $1 billion for the 2013-14 state budget and “level the playing field” among New York-based small and medium-sized businesses… Read More →
New York ranked third among all states in the 2010 fiscal year for the large share of tax revenues from personal income taxes, according to a new report from the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan tax research group in Washington. Nationally, 20 percent of all state and local tax revenues came… Read More →
The Westchester County Board of Legislators is diving into its review of proposals for Playland’s future and plans to dedicate several committee meetings to the topic in the coming weeks and develop a framework for making a decision on a future operator for the historic park. The Government Operations Committee… Read More →
