Christie Hopes For Progress On Property Tax Reform
After calling Monday's meeting "productive," Christie says he hopes today's scheduled meeting with legislative leaders will bring them closer to property tax reform.
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After calling Monday's meeting "productive," Christie says he hopes today's scheduled meeting with legislative leaders will bring them closer to property tax reform.
Zadroga, a New York City police officer and first responder, died in 2006 from a respiratory disease contracted while working at Ground Zero.
Under the compromise proposal cutting back Social Security payroll taxes, workers would pay a 4.2 percent tax rate instead of 6.2 percent - a $120 billion tax cut for workers, starting on Jan. 1.
Gov. Chris Christie has spent much of his first year in office criticizing schools for being inefficient and the teachers union for keeping them that way.
Bloomberg is often critical of what he calls partisan gridlock in Washington. The billionaire mayor is a Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent. But he says they got it right this time. He says the agreement is a good example of working together.
The livelihoods of about 1,000 Off-Track Betting Corp. employees are caught in a political struggle in New York's Senate, which is now weighing two rescue plans.
A think tank projects that taxpayer-funded contributions to the pension systems for NY's public employees could balloon by billions over the next five years.
City councilor Kenneth Cockayne says Mayor Art Ward was taken to the hospital on Saturday night when he choked while having dinner at the Italian Social Club.
If he challenges his extradition to Sweden, he will likely be remanded into custody or released on bail until another judge rules on whether to extradite him, a spokeswoman for the extradition department said.
The Westchester County Board of Legislators has passed a bill that would limit terms for county legislators and the county executive.
A Greek Orthodox church destroyed on Sept. 11 is taking legal action against the agency that owns ground zero, saying it's reneged on a promise to rebuild the church.
360 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress passed the War Hazards Compensation Act. It has now been over nine years since the attacks of 9/11.
Consumers are crying foul over prepaid debit cards that often contain fees that eat up a big chunk of the card's value. Now, a local lawmaker is proposing some tough regulations on the card industry.
The President announced a bipartisan agreement on year-end legislation to extend expiring tax cuts and renew jobless benefits as part of a sweeping attempt to strengthen the economic recovery.
The Times Union of Albany reported that Paterson allocated the money for a youth chess program and to promote a New Jersey-New York Super Bowl, among other things.
