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...ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. NY local governments could save $765 million by service sharing NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York State municipalities could save $765 million by merging administrative functions and sharing...

In this article: Revenue, Tax, All rights reserved, Thomson Reuters, NYSE, and Nasdaq

...programs have faced, cutting funding to about $58 million this year from about $85 million a year ago. Good riddance, said Audrey Silk of New York City Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment. "That department should be eliminated...

In this article: David Paterson, New York, Tax, Medicaid, Nicotine, Tobacco, and Waste

A New York Times article makes an interesting observation: Unemployment has reached 10.3 percent in New York City, higher than it is in the state and nationally. The Bloomberg administration is weighing cuts from every city agency to help...

In this article: John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Unemployment, Minneapolis, Broadway, and Washington

NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Business activity in New York City expanded in November for the fourth consecutive month, while a gauge of business optimism was at its highest in more than three years, according to an industry report on...

NEW YORK (AP) - The economy has taken a toll on a New York tradition: the "Sidewalk Santas" who collected money for the poor on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. The 107-year-old program has gone online for the second year in a row. The...

In this article: New York and Manhattan

NEW YORK (AP) - An early print of an iconic Ansel Adams photograph is going up for auction in New York City for an estimated $350,000 to $450,000. The Dec. 8 sale of 1948's "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" is at Swann Auction...

In this article: Ansel Adams

...vastly outspent, Bill Thompson's campaign ran a very close race because it focused on issues that New Yorkers most cared about, mainly that working New Yorkers are struggling to get by and are being squeezed out of the city," a spokesman...

In this article: Michael Bloomberg, NEW YORK, Forbes magazine, Bloomberg LP, and U.S.

NEW YORK -- A finance report shows New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent $102 million to narrowly win election to a third term. The finance report filed Friday indicates it was the most expensive self-financed campaign in U.S....

In this article: Michael Bloomberg, Forbes magazine, and U.S.

NEW YORK -- The City of New York has agreed to pay $340,000 to an autistic man who spent a year in jail after confessing to a killing he didn't commit. Ozem Goldwire, of Brooklyn, was jailed on charges that he murdered his sister in 2006.

In this article: The City of New York

...about $25 million in state Empire Development Zone benefits over 10 years. State leaders hope to attract solar panel manufacturers to New York by offering reduced rates on the in-demand purified silicon the Niagara Falls plant will...

In this article: New York and New York Power Authority