As School Funding Runs Dry, Riverhead Residents Call to Shut Down Economic Development Org
A growing local faction is demanding that the IDA be dissolved.
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“I don’t blame businesses for wanting to get as big of a profit as they possibly can, but that shouldn’t be the job of a town.”
“This is uniting the community more than any other event in the past decade that I can remember.”
Hundreds of Child Victims Act cases have been filed against New York schools, some over accused serial offenders that could leave districts with tens of millions of dollars in liability.
New York’s consumer advocacy groups struggle to compete with well-funded utilities and corporations. Lawmakers want to level the playing field.
There are at least three ways a Trump administration could try to stop the transit-funding toll.
No state pursues workers for overpaid unemployment benefits as aggressively as New York. A proposed reform is colliding with New York’s own repayment problem.
A quarter of lawmakers in Albany are landlords. Almost none of them are covered by the most significant tenant protection law in years.
It’s the first step New York has taken to address its housing shortage in years — but tenant groups are fuming and real estate wants more.