Touting the success today of the state’s recent decision to triple its film tax credit (from 10 percent to 30 percent), Gov. David Paterson announced today that production of the ABC series “Ugly Betty” would be returning to New York City.  The city’s 5 percent “Made in NY” tax credit will boost that to 35 [...]

With hospital-acquired infections affecting 5 to 10 percent of patients, New York is giving more than $1.2 million to hospitals for projects to tackle the issue. Each year, hospital patients across the country contract an estimated 1.7 infections, resulting in some 99,000 deaths, according to state Health Commissioner Richard Daines.

Prevention efforts will target some of [...]

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli just announced that he has removed three more lawyers from the state and local retirement systems and has taken away retirement system service credits from two other attorneys and an accountant. The actions are part of an ongoing review of retirement-system abuse by DiNapoli. Last month, he suspended the pensions of [...]

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, whose office is investigating the State Police, released a letter today that demands copies of e-mails he said were deleted for a New York Power Authority employee the day the probe was announced last month. The letter was sent yesterday.

Information the Attorney General’s Office received in response to subpoenas from the [...]

Nearly 93 percent of New Yorkers think consumers should have a choice of electricity suppliers, according to a new poll from the Retail Energy Supply Association. The association is a trade group representing companies that provide a range of competitive energy services in the state.

Syracuse University, which conducted the survey of 550 New York homeowners [...]

  Most states are concerned about the poor economy and sluggish revenues, but New York is one of only four states that reported a “pessimistic” view about its financial condition, according to a report released Friday by the National Conference of State Legislatures. The other three are  Arizona, Delaware and Washington.   “Whether or not the [...]

   Gov. David Paterson announced this morning that he plans to sign legislation today to triple the state’s tax credit for the movie and television industries, from 10 percent to 30 percent and extends the program through 2013. The approval coincides with the start of the seventh annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, [...]

Gov. David Paterson just announced he is hiring Joseph Fisch as New York’s inspector general, a permanent replacement for Kristine Hamann, an appointee of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer who unceremoniously left early this month. (Her last news release and report were issued April 3, and the next release was issued by Acting Inspector General Dennis Martin on April 11.)

Fisch, who [...]

Gov. David Paterson announced today that the state would provide $1.17 million in grants to help communities improve child safety. The money will enable more thorough investigations and prosecutions of child abuse, neglect and maltreatment, and will expand services for victims.

“These grants will help communities establish the proper child safety infrastructure that will act in [...]

State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced this afternoon that he is expanding his pension-fraud investigation to include all 37 Boards of Cooperative Educational Services in the state. He is seeking information about the nature of employment agreements BOCES offices have with professional consultants.

This is the second expansion of a probe that started by looking into potentially fraudulent [...]