Letters to the Editor

The State Senate’s back at work today, trying to head off your anger over high taxes and the Governor’s demand for a tax cap.  It’s the top story in our roundup of the day’s statewide news.

Our roundup of news from around the state focuses today on Topic One in Albany: Governor Paterson’s demands for deep budget cuts to head off what he says is a crisis.

No news is all bad.  Take the state budget mess, for instance.  The moment Gov. Paterson declared it a “crisis”, his poll numbers shot up.  That story tops our daily roundup of news from around the state.

Governor David Paterson took a bold step this week.  He declared the state to be in a recession, with its budget falling deeper into a dark pit of debt.  He challenged — nicely — state lawmakers to match the cuts he was making.  How’s his message going over?  That’s the main story in our roundup of news from elsewhere today.

Governor David Paterson tonight makes the most significant speech of his short tenure.  He’s confronting a crisis in the state budget and will say the money’s just not there to do everything that was planned.  His warning:  hard times are coming, particularly for state employees.