With NYC red ink worse than advertised, why’s Eric Adams nixing cuts?
- Google-News-Wire
- March 4, 2024
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- Bill de Blasio
- budget
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- eric adams
- government spending
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Opinion editorial By Post Editorial Board Published March 3, 2024, 7:49 p.m. ET Mayor Eric Adams’ supposedly balanced $109.4 billion plan for Fiscal 2025, which begins July 1, is $3.6 billion shy of what’s needed for current services, the CBC reports. G.N.Miller Mayor Adams is playing hero again, canceling a round of spending cuts set […]
Read MoreMayor Tiffany Henyard slams critics who say she spends lavishly
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- February 8, 2024
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- government spending
- Illinois
- Mayors
News By Melissa Koenig Published Feb. 8, 2024, 3:07 p.m. ET The self-described “super mayor” of a small Illinois town has hit back at those who criticize her almost $300,000 salary and brazen use of public funds on flights, steakhouses and billboards — while her village faces a deficit. Democrat Tiffany Henyard, elected as mayor […]
Read MoreDon’t hike property taxes — cut needless spending, Mr. Mayor
Opinion editorial By Post Editorial Board Published Dec. 18, 2023, 7:09 p.m. ET Mayor Eric Adams granted a round of municipal union pay hikes without winning much of anything in productivity increases. REUTERS/David Dee Delgado Since the Biden administration has told City Hall “drop dead,” Mayor Adams is talking of hiking property and other taxes […]
Read MoreRainy days are coming, Mayor Adams: Save big now
Citizens Budget Commission chief Andrew Rein rightly calls on Mayor Eric Adams to put more than half of $4.5 billion in newfound revenue (over two years) into reserve funds to ensure that essential public services are protected when the next recession hits. We’d be happy if Adams sets aside even more than the $2.3 billion, […]
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