Local government is a labor-intensive business. The 179,222 employees of the state’s counties, cities, towns, and villages outside New York City were paid a total of $12.0 billion during the fiscal ...

Mary Nobilski, a Steuben County employee, was the Southern Tier’s highest-paid local government employee in fiscal year 2025-26, at ...

Lewis County employees held nine of the North Country’s ten highest-paid local government positions in fiscal year 2025-26, most ...

Payroll records for every Long Island county, city, town, village and special district can be searched at the Empire Center's transparency website, SeeThroughNY.net. The full statewide report, What ...

Erie County deputy sheriff Simon Biegasiewicz was Western New York’s highest-paid local government employee in fiscal year 2025-26, at ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ALBANY, N.Y. A new Empire Center estimate shows that heating an average home from October to March would cost approximately $790 with natural gas, compared with $1,100 with a ...

New Yorkers have reached a clear verdict: The state’s tax system is not delivering. A full 67% say they are not getting good value for their tax dollars, while 64% support eliminating the state income ...

New York City firefighters and fire officers retiring last year after full careers were entitled to average annual pension benefits of $177,016, according to new data added to SeeThroughNY.net, the ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ALBANY, N.Y. – New Yorkers are delivering a blunt assessment of the state’s tax system: 67% say they are not getting good value for their tax dollars, while 64% support ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s average residential electricity price reached 29.90 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in July 2026, the fifth highest in the nation and 63.3 percent above ...

Greater Long Island’s recent deep dive into the rise of homeschooling sparked quite a debate. Hundreds of readers joined the discussion on Facebook, weighing in on everything from academics and ...