Author Archive

Steve Levy

is executive director of the Center for Cost Effective Governance. He served as Suffolk County executive, as an Assemblyman and host of "The Steve Levy Radio Show."

Opinion

Opinion

Cuomo's nursing home panel overlooks important fact

Testing residents and employees sooner could have slowed the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes.

New York State

Opinion

Fix New York state’s overtime and pension abuses

New York taxpayers can’t afford to keep paying padded pensions, but there is a solution: Assemblyman Michael Fitzpatrick submitted legislation to prohibit overtime payments from being factored into a retiree’s pension calculations, writes former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy.