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You can see Scranton from Long Island.

Okay, maybe not physically, but Nassau and Suffolk counties can certainly relate to the fiscal earthquakes shuddering through Northeast Pennsylvania that made international news recently when the town's mayor issued paychecks giving every single city employee $7.25 per hour for the work done during the previous pay period.

Scranton Mayor Chris Doherty...

Those who are somehow still optimistic about the prevailing ethos of the financial services industry ought to take a gander at the results of a new poll commissioned by a law firm that represents industry whistleblowers. A quarter of the senior financial services professionals surveyed said they had observed or had firsthand knowledge of wrongdoing in the workplace. Roughly the same proportion said...

If you're wondering just how big a job it will be to turn around the good ship US Merchant Marine Academy, the Kings Point institution that has had three superintendents in the past three years, consider the latest word from the General Accounting Office. The GAO, the federal watchdog agency, previously cited the academy for overcharging midshipmen $8.1 million in fees, among many other shortcomings....

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney use bundlers, celebrities and high fliers who hold fancy cocktail parties to rake in the big donors. Now the nickle and dime brigade can do the same, but you won’t get a martini and sashimi. Instead of showing up with a check, you text in the dollars.

At least, there are no worries about what to wear.

At the top of both Obama's and Romney's very blue campaign...

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo today put on a sales pitch for a new Tappan Zee Bridge and, without naming them directly, took on detractors for contributing to a gridlock that could stall this project.

But anyone paying attention to this issue knows who Cuomo was referring to – the Republican county executives from Westchester, Rockland and Putnam, and some other groups, such as Riverkeeper, that have...

The scandal brewing over manipulations of Libor, the obscure-sounding London Interbank Offered Rate, won't stop with Barclays, the big British bank whose top three executives have tendered resignations.

On the contrary, there's a good chance the scandal is coming to a bank near you.

If you want to understand what it's all about, the nonprofit journalism organization Pro Publica has prepared...

HIV — the human immunodeficiency virus — was a death sentence in the '80s and '90s, but advances in medicine give people hope. The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been working to make testing for the virus more available and discreet.

The FDA approved the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test Tuesday, giving those most at risk, who many never get tested...

The United States and Pakistan have issues. But like spouses in a volatile marriage, the two nations have found a way to stay together — for now.

That’s good news for the United States. No matter how exasperating the relationship has become, our fight against terrorists in the region make us better off together than apart.

Things went fell apart last November after two dozen Pakistani...

The closing bell on Wall Street last Friday also marked the end of the fiscal year for many public pension funds across the country, including the New York State Teachers' Retirement System (NYSTRS), which finances pensions promised to 420,000 active and retired professional educators working mainly for school districts outside New York City.  

Like its counterparts, NYSTRS is heavily...

County Executive Rob Astorino on Tuesday said he’s willing to negotiate a deal with lawmakers over an ongoing day care divide – as long as they find $4 million in cuts elsewhere.

Astorino’s seemingly change of heart comes a day after seven Republicans wanted the county executive and county board to sit down and come up with a solution.

But his acceptance also happened hours after Democrats...