Opinion

While the $138 billion spending plan for 2014-15 is not ideal, I am pleased with many components of the New York state budget and, accordingly, voted in favor of many of the budget bills. For one, it restores $602 million of the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA) for school districts. This is good news for our […]

Here is a money-making idea for you. Rent a van. Drive to Missouri. Load the van with cigarettes. Drive back and sell them in New York. Sell them for $1 less per pack than the normal price in the state. Voila! If you do this with 10,000 packs of smokes, you pocket more than $30,000.

Growing old can have its advantages. One is that you can shrug off the latest calamities — because you have seen so many other calamities over the years — and you know they fizzled. This makes you look good. Younger people complain about the latest calamity. The world is running out of … fill in

The New York State Legislature recently met in joint session to elect four members to the state Board of Regents. The Board of Regents is responsible for the general supervision of all educational activities in the state, including implementation of educational standards such as the much-maligned Common Core standards. The board consists of 17 members,

Don’t you love elections? In the campaigns for the important ones, we get to see frantic tap dancing. We get to see some foaming at the mouth. This year’s campaigns promise to entertain. In New York, we already see our Governor Andrew Cuomo moving to the right. He knows he has most Democrats’ votes in

Editor’s note: The authors say they wrote this letter in response to the editorial by Norman Poltenson, entitled, “Pre-K is a failure, so let’s make it universal” in the Jan. 31 issue of The Central New York Business Journal. There is overwhelming, research-based evidence that early education creates critical opportunities, especially for at-risk children living

Just over three years have passed since Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed Public Act 10 (PA 10), a major labor-reform bill. Organized labor, legislative Democrats, and their supporters claimed Walker was destroying collective-bargaining rights for government employees and responded by occupying the state capitol in Madison. Thousands of protesters assembled to chant, “This is what

Friday’s monthly nonfarm payrolls report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) provided fresh evidence of a bounce back in the U.S. labor market from recent weakness that may have been weather-related. This is despite the unemployment rate’s rise to 6.7 percent in February from 6.6 percent in January. For the record, employers added