Apr 3
2012
Central Park Plaza opened in 1958, started going downhill in the 1980s and shuttered the last of its stores last summer. City inspectors repeatedly cited the plaza for violations, triggering a state probe and a subsequent agreement by its owners to sell the 27 acre parcel east of Amherst and Main streets. Blight in the plaza and adjacent neighborhood feed off each other, as this Investigative Post photo essay shows.
Apr 3
2012
Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston outlines how to revise the tax code to stop subsidizing corporations and the super rich and get the economy back on its feet.
Apr 3
2012
Buffalo and Grand Island schools get a slice of pork, called ‘”bullet aid” in the new state budget. Gov. Cuomo and legislative leaders insist there’s no pork in the budget, but $30 million is school aid is assigned in a manner very similar to member earmarks under previous administrations.
Mar 29
2012
ProPublica investigation raises “the specter that groups may be working together in ways that violate the rules, campaign finance experts said. We also found instances in which overseers of some political action committees directed hefty fees to their own companies, a legal form of self-dealing.”
Mar 29
2012
Higgins would have to pull a Chris Lee to lose his job. Hochul would have to pull, well, a Hochul to keep hers.
Mar 26
2012
Mar 26
2012
Momentum grows for clipping wings of town IDAs that grant tax breaks other governments have to live with
Mar 22
2012
Serious problems found at all six state agencies providing residential services throughout New York.