The Gateway Tunnel and New Bus Terminal: More Money that New Jersey and the Port Authority Can Afford, and More Time Than They Have
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We are told that we have a crisis. The two Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels under the Hudson River are more...
Category: New York
What the MTA Deal Means
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So I hear Governor Cuomo and Mayor DeBlasio have cut a deal. So how much will Governor Cuomo pay,...
Poverty Anywhere Leads To Poverty In New York City
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The 1970s were a devastating decade for New York City. The middle class and employers fled, leaving the old,...
Schools Are Obsolete: IT and the UFT Have Convinced Me
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There is, or at least was until recently, an idea out there in America that every child deserves a...
“Documenting The Decline of the City”
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When you know what I do about state and local government revenues and expenditures (and I’ve worked very hard...
The American and New York Economy: Stagnation and Oligarchy or Renewal and Entrepreneurship?
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One of the more positive trends of the past few years has been the acknowledgement by at least some...
Public Employee Pensions In NY and NJ: 2013 Data (and Commentary on NYC Comptroller Stringer’s Deceptions, Etc.)
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This is a “give the people what they want” post. After recently completing two analyses of public employee pensions...
It Keeps Getting Tougher for New York’s Young Serfs
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As I noted in this post, https://larrylittlefield.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/census-bureau-education-finance-data-fy-2013/ when I compare per student public school spending with the U.S. average,...
Census Bureau Education Finance Data FY 2013
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Imagine the following on a postcard sent to every taxpayer and public school employee in Syracuse, NY: “In FY...
The Mets Are New York’s Team, According To State and Local Government Finance Data
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It is too bad that people don’t pay as much attention to state and local government policy, and the...