comptroller
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Parents have to earn $334,000 to be able to comfortably afford child care for a 2-year-old, according to an analysis from the city’s comptroller.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Brad Lander, New York City’s former comptroller and city councilman who recently won the Democratic primary against incumbent U.S.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Brandon Patty, a 44-year-old clerk and comptroller in St John's County, Florida and a Navy Reserve commander, is one such American who believes passionately that the Dream is alive and working.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Meanwhile, Brad Lander, a former NYC comptroller, defeated incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman, while democratic socialist Assembly member Claire Valdez won the primary for an open seat representing parts of Brooklyn and Queens.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
“I would thank you for precise information on this head, for I have not been able to get any,” he wrote to the comptroller of the treasury, Oliver Wolcott.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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
Elsewhere in the state, voters are electing county executives and comptrollers, including on Long Island where Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, a Democrat, is running for re-election against the county’s Republican comptroller John Kennedy.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2019
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
The list of signatures on a copy of the letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal includes Thomas P. DiNapoli and Scott M. Stringer, the comptrollers of New York state and New York City, respectively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2015
Should we have ministers of the church to be comptrollers of the mints?
From Sermons on the Card by Henry Morley
