Governor Kathy Hochul is heralding a deal to keep the Buffalo Bills in New York. After months of talks, the Democrat says a new $1.4 billion stadium in Orchard Park will be largely paid for by taxpayers. While Bills fans are no doubt thrilled to keep Josh Allen and company around for future Super Bowl campaigns, debate over the timing of the agreement, with the new state budget, and the wisdom of it is pitched. Here to talk about public investment in sports stadiums is Roger Noll, professor emeritus of economics at Stanford.
New U.S. Census Bureau data shows New York City lost nearly 4 percent of its population in COVID’s first year. At the same time,...
We speak with RuthAnne Visnauskas, Commissioner of the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal, about rent relief applications due this week.
We recently featured a report about the Olympic Regional Development Authority’s role and future in New York’s Catskills and Adirondacks regions. The story raises...