Cuomo and Nassau: unhappy together?

By William MurphyNovember 29, 2010

The fates of Andrew Cuomo and Nassau County are intertwined, fiscal conservative E.J. McMahon of the Manhattan Institute argues in this op-ed in the NY Post.

Much of it will not be new to readers, and one direct solution favored by McMahon comes from the bash-the-unions (workers) school.

He writes: "...rather than waiting for more crises to pop up elsewhere, the new governor should seek legislation empowering all local governments and school districts to freeze employee wages for a period of up to three years. "

He also suggests that the Nassau Interim Finance Authority might want to invoke its emergency powers_for similar ends.

"By invoking a control period sooner rather than later, the seven-member NIFA board could stop the bleeding by freezing county wages," he writes.

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'It's personal to me' The law would require businesses to have proper state licensing, prove that their employees are paid and ban staff from living at the spas or sleeping there overnight. Repeat offenders could face penalties up to $25,000. NewsdayTV's Shari Einhorn has more.

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