NY Post In a victory for lawmakers, a state judge issued a ruling Friday that upholds legislative pay hikes that too...

New York Times  After weeks of intraparty bickering, the New York State Legislature and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Sunday signed off ...

From the Queens Chronicle : A state-commissioned panel did not vote on raising the pay of state lawmakers at a special meeting on Tuesday,...

From the NY Post : Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie claimed today that lawmakers deserve a raise because they’ve never worked harder. Ignor...

From NY1 : Governor Andrew Cuomo has made its clear that his appointees to the legislative pay commission can control whether or not state...

From Gotham Gazette : As New York City Council members voted on a package of legislation that increased their salaries from $112,500 to $1...

From AM-NY : Members of the New York City Council on Friday voted themselves a $36,000 raise — $10,000 higher than an advisory salary pane...

You may recall that during Paul Vallone's 2013 campaign, he stated that if elected, he would close his law practice and focus on being a...

From City Council Watch : --Ydanis Rodriguez, during the first round of questions, took up his entire allotment yelling at Fritz Schwartz,...

From the NY Post : In a stunning move, City Council members are mulling even fatter raises for themselves than the 23 percent boost recomm...

From CBS 2 : Mayor Bill de Blasio has accepted recommendations by a panel that city elected officials should get raises in exchange for a...

From the Daily News : A city commission recommended pay raises for all the city’s elected officials in a report issued Monday. The commi...

From City Journal : ...what do city council members do to justify the six-figure salaries they already enjoy? Their jobs, after all, are m...

From the Daily News : Poverty-crying City Council members are quietly plotting for a massive pay raise that will bring their six-figure s...

From the Daily News : The city’s district attorneys are looking for a fat raise. The five DAs penned a letter asking that their pay be h...

Angelo Torres lives in his car.  Photo by Geoffrey Croft From the NY Post : But even if you wonder how someone can hit rock bottom whil...

From the Daily News : Attorney General Eric Schneiderman proposed an ethics reform agenda Monday to address what he called “a golden age o...

From the Daily News : With the elections now over, lawmakers are hoping for their first pay raise since 1999. “It’s long overdue,” said ...

From the NY Post : A month after state Sen. Malcolm Smith bolted the Democratic Party to join the Independent Democratic Conference, seven...

From the NY Post : The City Council would have to raise property taxes to fund retroactive pay increases for municipal workers — and that’...