Westchester County taxpayers can delve through over 2,000 contracts on a website aimed at letting them know how their money is being spent. County Executive Rob Astorino earlier today announced a new web tool that shows whose getting county contracts and how much they’re getting paid. It’s part of his… Read More →
YONKERS — City Councilman John Murtagh is throwing cold water on a school-construction plan announced today by state Assemblyman Mike Spano. “His ignorance of how the city operates is just mind-blowing,” the Republican councilman said of Spano, his Democratic opponent in the Nov. 8 mayoral election. Click below to read… Read More →
The New York Power Authority’s chairman said Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pick for the authority’s president and CEO is a good one, but he declined to speculate on his own future. Michael Townsend, a Fairport resident and partner at Monroe County-based Harris Beach LLP, technically saw his term as a NYPA… Read More →
YONKERS — Building new schools in areas with the fastest-growing student populations would cut busing costs and free up funds for construction, Assemblyman Mike Spano said today. The Democratic mayoral candidate was scheduled to announce his education capital plan alongside city teachers’ union officials at 2:30 p.m. outside School 22… Read More →
Saying his comments earlier this month were read too deeply, Sen. Tom Libous said today he’s absolutely, no-doubt-about-it, 100 percent opposed to extending an income tax surcharge on New York’s top earners. Libous, a Republican from Binghamton who serves as deputy majority leader, raised some eyebrows on Oct. 18 when… Read More →
Gannett’s Albany Bureau has put together the latest list of school salaries for the 2010-11 school year, which ended June 30. It showed that Westchester and Putnam counties ranked first and second in the state for the average full-time salaries for teachers and administrators last school year, while Otsego and… Read More →
Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a pair of appointments today, tapping one-time Lieutenant Governor hopeful Leecia Eve to a top economic development post and recommending Gil Quiniones to serve as CEO of the New York Power Authority. Eve, who was thought to be a leading candidate to serve as former Gov…. Read More →
Accepting an award in Manhattan last night from a major gay-rights group, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the successful push for same-sex marriage in New York “achieved historic social progress” that is “resonating on so many levels.” At the Empire State Pride Agenda’s annual gala, Cuomo spoke about the national significance… Read More →
A former state Department of Environmental Conservation employee was charged today with spending more than 500 work hours on sex chat lines and incurring more than $20,000 in improper phone charges to the state, Inspector General Ellen Biben announced. Edward Reilly, 52, of Delmar, Albany County, worked for the state… Read More →
A week after the city of Albany chose not to enforce a curfew on a park taken over by Occupy Albany, the protesters have turned their sights on the city’s mayor. Gas-drilling protesters will march from the park—located across the street from the state Capitol—to Albany City Hall at 4:30… Read More →
