Topic: E.J. McMahon

New Yorkers leaving state

New Yorkers are in a leaving state of mind.. . New York saw 7.3 million more residents leave the state than moved in from other states over the...

OT king pads taxpayer-funded pension

New York overtime king Robert Henry has made more than $1 million in extra pay since late 1998 - and that's just the beginning of the hit to...
New York's pension system is a ticking time bomb ready to explode, a report warned Tuesday.. . State and city taxpayers face billions of dollars in...

Food-Stamp Nation

Welfare: A record 42 million on food stamps is bad enough. Newly released July figures show 41.8 million Americans on food stamps (or SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, to use the new de-stigmatized terminology). The Democrats' stimulus includes "$145 billion ...
More than 700 former city educators are raking in six-figure pensions - including a principal forced out by scandal and an administrator who slept...
An orderly at a state psychiatric clinic has made an insane amount of overtime over a dozen years - about $1 million.. . Robert Henry is on track...

Teachable Moments in Good Government

ALBANYThere isn't much of a crowd at today's meeting of the State Senate's temporary rules reform committee, where members are hearing testimony from good-government advocates.Blair Horner, legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, spoke about ...