.Cam Macdonald is not impressed with the anti-squatter measures in the new state budget, saying they don't do much to change existing law empirecenter.org/publications/a…

.Alyssa Katz takes a close look at the state’s new system for taxpayer financing of political campaigns, and points out that it allows only one in three campaigns to be audited each year.

What was the rationale for that? thecity.nyc/2024/05/01/can…

New York's highest-per-capita Medicaid spending is still rising, @nyhammond explains, though the rate of growth has slowed.

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I was fortunate enough to work beside & w/ Karen for over a decade and am lucky to call her a friend. She has been a trusted voice for countless New Yorkers. I can’t tell you how many times over the years people have stopped me to tell me how much they loved her on New York NOW. 🎤

The dean of the NY Capitol press corps -- as Michael Gormley so aptly referred to her recently -- is retiring.

kdewitt has been a fixture on NY public radio stations for decades. If anyone has earned her retirement, it's her. An inspiration to so many of us. What a career!

The NYS budget provision below raises a question:

It allows the health commissioner to help turn around safety-net hospitals by waiving regulations -- but it adds a long list of exceptions.

The question is, are there any regulations left to waive?
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Cold Spring Hills nursing home on brink of financial collapse, records show. Mgmt gave staff until Tuesday to sign up for a new employer-funded insurance plan that union officials say provides fewer — and more expensive — benefits than previously offered.  newsday.com/long-island/na…

The assertion in this article that “the Court of Appeals 2004 decision in Silver v. Pataki further hid this [budget] process even more from public view by allowing the governor to pack issues having nothing to do with money into the budget, forbidding the Legislature from…

Truly a spectacular performance in the canon of public officials caught on camera invoking their positions during traffic stops.

.WXXI News has body cam footage of the Monroe County DA repeatedly invoking her position and being generally belligerent after she was stopped for speeding near her home.

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'Ripley' vs. reality

The average tuition at NY private schools ($21,000) is substantially less than average spending at NY public schools ($30,000)
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New York is doing its darnedest to prove that you cannot spend your way to better schools empirecenter.org/publications/n…

NY's top judges made the final decision to post Trump's trial transcripts publicly after a weekend call from Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Law360 learned, after many weeks of internal debate, public calls from New York Daily News (4/9, 4/12, 4/21), private talks, letters & a motion to Justice Merchan.

This is Josh Greenman’s fault #MyXAnniversary

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Cocktail hour 7 p.m
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