Topic: Citizens Budget Commission

The doctors this city hospital aren't the only ones earning six-figure salaries.. . Three low-level housekeepers and a service aide at Jacobi...

Editorial: Labored logic by union

The city is on the verge of laying off almost 800 teacher's aides - and they have no one but their own union leaders to blame.. . The aides are...
With all the attention garnered by the historic passage of same-sex marriage legislation last week in Albany, it nearly went unnoticed that...

NYC public retirees should pay health premiums: watchdog

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City should require its retired public employees to pay for Medicare Part B premiums -- the way all but four states do -- instead of fully reimbursing them, according to a report released on Wednesday by a fiscal watchdog ...

Cuomo Explains Taxpayer Outrage

Heres Andrew Cuomo discussing the grounds for a taxpayer revolt at yesterdays breakfast hosted by the Citizens Budget Commission.Referring to the practice of raising tax rates on the private sector during bad times to make up for shortfalls in public revenue ...
The president of the Citizens Budget Commission thinks Michael Bloomberg is trying to plug the citys billion-dollar budget gap in little ways, while ignoring the real issues: You do it in little ways, said Carol Kellermann, president of the C.B.C ...

Quinn on Continuity, Committee Assignments

After Christine Quinn delivered a speech to the Citizens Budget Commission this morning, I asked her if if the beneficial continuity she thinks Michael Bloomberg's third term will provide extends to the City Council's committee assignments. My question was prompted ...