A state audit found that the Long Beach school district’s budgeting practices led to higher-than-necessary tax levies with a surplus fund balance exceeding the statutory limit, findings that district ...

A recent report by the Rockefeller Institute of Government on Foundation Aid said in 2022-2023 that nearly one-third of all school district’s fund balance limits were over the 4 percent threshold ...

Rising land values and an outdated cap on funds paid to farmers to avoid land sell-offs are constraining a state-run program to preserve vital farmland, according to a new audit by state Comptroller ...

Long Island Republicans criticized the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for its latest tax crunch on suburban businesses. Brigitte Stelzer Long Island Republicans blasted the Metropolitan ...