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.
This summer brought a notable change in the New York state government media landscape. After a dozen years at Spectrum News and “Capital Tonight,”...
The NCAA men's basketball tournament returned to Albany over the weekend for the first time since 2003.
The Miracle on Ice turns 40. The New York state budget is due in six weeks. And Senator Ed Markey and Congressman Joe Kennedy...