The New York State Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials has a new executive director. Barbara Van Epps replaces Peter Baynes, who retired this spring after 17 years. Van Epps began in mid-August and has been with NYCOM since 2006. She previously spent more than a dozen years working for the New York State Division of the Budget’s Local Government Unit.
The last several years have been a rollercoaster for state and local budget-writers, who confronted the disruption and uncertainty of the COVID pandemic, which...
The governors of New York, Massachusetts and Vermont discuss their plans for the year.
A majority of New Yorkers say the war in Ukraine will lead to long-term economic problems and say the resulting inflation is having a...