State & Regional News

By Hank Russell A new poll that was recently released showed that less than one in four New York residents say that sports betting is good for New York and nearly the same amount of […]

State tax receipts totaled $37.2 billion through the first quarter of State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2027, $2.4 billion higher than the Division of the Budget (DOB) estimated in the state’s 2027 Enacted Budget Financial Plan. […]

By Hank Russell Attorney General Letitia James is calling on New York residents who may have paid more for generic prescription drugs between May 2009 and December 2019 to register on a settlement website and […]

By Hank Russell Local groups shared opposing views on the statewide one-year moratorium on data centers, with one organization saying the state will fall behind in the artificial intelligence (AI) race, while another said the […]

By Hank Russell A recent study found that New York is in the top 20 when it comes to states in the most financial distress. According to WalletHub, New York was the 16th-most financially distressed […]

By Hank Russell A recent analysis by a think tank showed that the federal government was right to suspend funding for the New York Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), citing the unit’s poor […]

By Hank Russell A new study reveals that New York residents spend more than 10% of their income on healthcare, making the Empire State one of the top 20 most expensive places to get medical […]

Natural Gas Prices Hit Peak By Hank Russell A recent report shows that New York residents pay the fourth-highest electricity prices in the nation. In fact, they pay more than half of the national average. […]

By Hank Russell Despite the announcements by Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani that universal pre-K will be offered to children in New York City, other parents outside that region — […]

By Hank Russell As New York continues to face an affordability crisis and an ongoing exodus of businesses and residents, a new report recently released by the Empire Center for Public Policy finds that modernizing […]