comptroller
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The comptroller, who serves as the city’s fiscal hawk, said in a social-media post on Thursday that politics didn’t influence his decision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The securities industry is generating record tax revenue for New York, increasing the city’s and state’s vulnerability to a downturn, the state comptroller warns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Even a former U.S. comptroller of the currency agrees.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Nathan Johnson also unseated state Sen. Don Huffines, a Dallas Republican that cycle; Johnson is now running for attorney general, and Huffines for comptroller.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
The original word, controller, is more likely to be used in business, and the fancier one, comptroller, in government.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
In a private ceremony before the inauguration, Lierman handed Franchot the first of her “challenge coins,” an engraved memento Maryland’s comptrollers have given out for decades.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023
Those will be filled in and hammered out later by the Office of Management and Budget, the comptrollers of the various departments, and the relevant committees in Congress.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2017
He has also enlisted the state and city comptrollers to audit and inspect existing shelters to push them to improve conditions, making them cleaner and safer.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 13, 2016
It also includes signatures from treasurers or comptrollers from Rhode Island, South Carolina and Washington, D.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2015
For this purpose there are assessors, collectors, treasurers, comptrollers or auditors, and various other officials.
From Government in the United States National, State and Local by James Wilford Garner
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