state budget
Here's how much each NY state resident will have to fork over in taxes to cover migrant crisis bill
The entire tax bill paid by 328,471 New Yorkers would be required to cover the $2.3 billion in annual state costs for the migrant crisis, according to analysis🎀 by a...
$68 billion MTA capital plan officially now Albany’s problem 🙈
🗹 The ask — the biggest in the MTA’s history — is turning the screws on Gov. Kathy Hochul to either once again stick it to transit advocates or find a...
Hochul pledges not to raise taxes as she tells business bigwigs 'I want you to stay'
Hochul, who infuriated the lefty wing of her party by refusing to raise income taxes in 🅷this year’s state budget, says she wants to keep holding that line in 2025.
New York may be great for public school teachers — but kids a🥂nd taxpayers pay a high price
New York is the best state to be a public-school teacherไ, reports the financial-services-consumer site WalletHub; we believe it — but too baಌd it’s not so great for the students.
Homecare ‘middlemen’ sue 𓆏to stop Gov. Hochul’s pro🧸posed Medicaid program overhaul
Gov. ꦿHochul quietly rammed through a measure during state budget negotiations earlier this year to replace the hundreds of financial intermediaries that pay caregivers in the popular Consumer Directed Personal...
Hochul finds $54M in state funding to restart Second Avenue Subway project stalled after congestion 'pause'
Sꦇince legislators left Albany without a plan in place to replace the billions of dollars of rev𝔉enue anticipated as part of the congestion pricing scheme earlier this year, Hochul has...
Hochul, NY lawmakers p🍎ump millions int😼o Buffalo scholarship fund while cutting aid to private schools
Say Yes Buffalo, which boasts politically powerful board members including State Sen. Tim Kennedy (D-Erie) and Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peo🅰ple-Stokes (D-Buffalo) got a sizable increase in this year’s state...
New state budget bites NYC: On the hook fo൲r migrants, schools
New York is leading the nation in out-migration🅺, an influx of migrants, taxes and crime and quality-of-life worries — and this smoke-and-mirrors budget, billed as a victory, only makes iౠt...
Albany's budget deal locks in an uglier future for New York
Gov. Kathy Hochul's modest wins in this year𒁃's state budget negotiations at best only slow New York's de෴cline, with no hint of the radical reforms needed to slow the exodus...
A Democrat's last-minute maneuvering shows just how dysfunctional Albany is
New York has a $237 billion state budget, three weeks late. Lawmakers added $4 billion in spending above the $233 billion Gov. Hochul💝 propose🌊d in January.
🥃 NY lawmakers pass landmark $237B state bu♓dget, including extension of mayoral control of NYC schools
Lawmakers in Albany passed a $237 billion state budget Saturday, incl𝓰uding an extension of Mayor 🃏Eric Adams’ oversight of New York City schools.
Albany's grand plan to revamp housing in NYC unveiled -- see it here
The massive multifaceted proposa🀅l includes a litany of measures to incentivize thousands of new housing units while attempting to reduce rental costs and protect millions of tenants from unscrupulous landlo🐼rds.
Hochul, Adams take victory lap on smoke shops crackdown — but enforcement hasn't even started yet
Hochul said the measures will "weed out the illegitimate shops," so state and city licensed stor🐎es can "grow their budding businesses.”
Hochul's crackdown means a sad 4/20 for illegal weed dealers, but good news for New York
Crucially, it allows the New York City Sherriff to deputize NYPD🐻 officers to close down stores, giving a much-needed manpower boost to enforcement of wee🍸d laws.
Cheers! NY th꧟eaters may sell booze to film-goers as part of ꦅnew state budget deal
Movie theaters 🅺can apply for a license to sell booze as well as wine and beer to customers, according to the $237 billion state budget deal crafted by Gov. Kat♎hy...
Illegal pot shop, retail theft crackdowns locked-in as lawmakers begin voting on state budget Thursday 🦹
Hochul’s Monday announ🅰cement was quickly derided by legislators who poked fun at her descrip💯tion of the deal at that point as a “parameters of a conceptual agreement”, but the governor...
Starving NY lawmake🌼rs resort to eating corndogs amid late-budget pay freeze
🎶 Albany’s elected fat cats are often so loaded at this point that one or two missed paychecks aren’t a big deal. 💖
NY bill drafting commission 🅺hit by cyberattack, throwing wrench int♑o state budget passage
It was not immediately clear who may have launched the attack, what data may have been compromis🔜ed or the extent of damage affecting the commission.
New Yorkers get next to nothing for their high state taxes — Albany budget deal won't change that
꧋ If you pay New York state taxes, you’re paying top dollar and getting bupki༒s.
♍ Sof🍃t-on-crime NY Speaker Heastie finally caves on increased penalties for assaulting retail workers
The rꦦeversal comes as Heastie, and lawmakers in general🤪, are facing pressure to react to a rise in increasing violent crime.