A bill to regulate short-term rentals in New York, a billion-dollar industry outside of New York City, is awaiting action from Gov. Kathy Hochul. It would require landlords to register their units every two years and allow municipalities to collect sales and occupancy taxes on short-term rentals. The bill passed at the end of the […]
The late Rep. Richard Brodsky, who once described New York State’s hundreds of agencies as “quasi-Soviet-type public bureaucracies” that formed a “shadow government,” helped create the five-member Public Authorities Control Board (PACB), which helps oversee the state’s hundreds of agencies and must obtain an approving resolution before receiving project-related funding. One has to wonder what […]
ALBANY — Nearly 100 nurses protested outside the state Supreme Court Tuesday ahead of oral arguments in a lawsuit accusing the state Department of Labor of wrongfully closing investigations into victims’ complaints of wage theft. In the state, nurses earn an average of just over $16 an hour. But immigrants working in this industry face […]
ALBANY — Nearly 100 nurses protested outside the state Supreme Court Tuesday ahead of oral arguments in a lawsuit accusing the state Department of Labor of wrongfully closing investigations into victims’ complaints of wage theft. In the state, nurses earn an average of just over $16 an hour. But immigrants working in this industry face […]
