Finally Leaders Emerge
In times of economic hardship, we often need our government to act more like a responsible business and less like a bureaucracy. Government needs to treat its citizens with the same respect we treat...
View ArticleSchool Budgets and Beyond
On May 15th, less than two weeks from now, New Yorkers across the state will be out once again exercising their democratic right to vote, this time on their local school budgets. At the end of April...
View ArticleCoalition Advocates for Scaffold Law Reform
Last week, a coalition of advocacy groups that include business organizations representing small and large businesses, contractors, farmers and local government called for reforms to the state’s...
View ArticleSchool Budgets: Democracy at Work
On Tuesday (May 15th) New Yorkers across the state voted on school budgets for their local districts. Remember that 92 percent of all proposed budgets stayed within the tax cap. Overall, 96 percent...
View ArticleWrong Again
Rick Karlin of the Times-Union has an interesting article about the lack of mandate relief emanating from the halls of the Capitol this year. His story was accurate. There has not been much done to...
View ArticleNFIB Speaks Out on Scaffold Law Reform
Our friends at the New York State chapter of the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) provide some analysis and insights about why New York State must reform its “Scaffold Law,” which...
View ArticleStop Denying the Obvious: Mandates are a Significant Problem
Let’s get in our time machine and travel back to June of 2011. That was when New York’s Property Tax Cap was signed into law. We supported the move then. And we still support it. We know it will...
View ArticleWhere’s the Relief?
Unshackle Upstate’s position in support of mandate relief is well known – we were one of the founding members of the “Let NY Work” effort in 2012. So it’s not hard for us to support the New York...
View ArticleScaffold Law: Out of Date Legislation
When New York talks about being ‘open for business’ it fails to acknowledge that we have some really bad laws that hurt business and, more importantly, tax payers. No law is a better example than...
View ArticleCounties: Mayday for Mandate Relief
Last week, the NYS Association of Counties (NYSAC) announced the “Mayday for Mandate Relief” effort, in which county leaders from around the state called on lawmakers and Gov. Cuomo to enact...
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