KINGSTON, N.Y. – Days before a state budget deadline, Ulster County Executive Jen Metzger has outlined priorities for the county in a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul. Metzger’s listed priorities in the letter are housing, climate and environment, transportation, childcare and hospital funding. The budget deadline is Monday, April 1, but Hochul on Wednesday evening […]
State lawmakers are set to try to make it easier for teachers, cops and other state and local government workers to pad their pensions and leave taxpayers footing the nearly $4 billion bill, a new analysis shows.
The proposed change would instantly hit New York City taxpayers with $163 million in added annual pension costs, according to the Empire Center for Public Policy.