REGAN SPENDS HIS FINAL DAY AFTER 14 YEARS AS COMPTROLLER.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: MARC HUMBERT Associated Press

State Comptroller Edward Regan, New York's chief fiscal watchdog for more than 14 years, resigned the $110,000-a-year post Friday to head an economic think tank.

"It was time for me after 27 years (in public office) to move on," Regan said by telephone as he cleaned out his desk in the comptroller's New York City office.

"I much prefer to get closer to, at least in my opinion, reality," Regan said.

Nonetheless, Regan said he was sad to be leaving the comptroller's post.

At the Jerome Levy Economics Institute at Bard College north of New York City, Regan will be paid $175,000 a year. He …