Ruling in favor of the Empire Center, a state Supreme Court judge in Albany has ordered the Cuomo administration’s energy and environmental agencies to release a supposedly incomplete “comprehensive study” of how to meet the governor’s aggressive renewable energy goals. The decision handed down by Justice Peter A. Lynch late last week was greeted as “a big […]
After a two-year legal battle followed by two years of additional delays, the New York City Employee Retirement System (NYCERS) has released the full pension records for its retired members. The records are now posted at SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire Center’s government transparency website. As of 2016, NYCERS had 137,694 total retirees, including those from the Transit Authority, Health […]
The government transparency website SeeThroughNY has published a complete list of 2016-17 retirees entering the New York State Teachers Retirement System (NYSTRS). Excluding New York City educators, who belong to a separate city retirement system, the average pension was $47,730 for all 5,458 NYSTRS members who retired in 2016-17. The total includes both part- and […]
A Ramapo town police officer who collected nearly $442,000 was New York State’s highest paid local government employee outside New York City during the 12 months ending March 31, according to the 2017 edition of “What They Make,” the Empire Center’s annual analysis of local government pay. The report features the average pay and number […]