Mary Nobilski, a Steuben County employee, was the Southern Tier’s highest-paid local government employee in fiscal year 2025-26, at ...

Payroll records for every Long Island county, city, town, village and special district can be searched at the Empire Center's transparency website, SeeThroughNY.net. The full statewide report, What ...

Local government is a labor-intensive business. The 179,222 employees of the state’s counties, cities, towns, and villages outside New York City were paid a total of $12.0 billion during the fiscal ...

“Replacing natural gas with electricity for home heating could add hundreds or even thousands of dollars to New Yorkers’ ...

New York City firefighters and fire officers retiring last year after full careers were entitled to average annual pension benefits of $177,016, according to new data added to SeeThroughNY.net, the ...

Dissatisfaction spans party and regional lines as broad majorities rally behind sweeping tax reform FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ALBANY, N.Y.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s average residential electricity price reached 29.90 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in July 2026, the fifth highest in the nation and 63.3 percent above ...

New Yorkers have reached a clear verdict: The state’s tax system is not delivering. A full 67% say they are not getting good value for their tax dollars, while 64% support eliminating the state income ...

Greater Long Island’s recent deep dive into the rise of homeschooling sparked quite a debate. Hundreds of readers joined the discussion on Facebook, weighing in on everything from academics and ...

In 2024, the New York state Legislature decided the state needed some money — $75 billion, to be exact — for “comprehensive adaptation to the effects of climate change in New York state.” The ...