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Thursday’s Briefing: Budget Talk Everywhere
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.
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Wednesday’s Briefing: When Bad News Is Good
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.
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Monday’s Briefing: Devil’s In The Details
State lawmakers come back to Albany at the end of the week to take up the Governor’s call for big budget cuts. That story tops our daily roundup of news you need to know from around the state.
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Friday’s Briefing: A Stand-Up Governor
The talk’s continuing about how to fill the deficit that Gov. Paterson identified this week. But Paterson himself was off on a speaking tour, pressing wider issues and delivering some punchy one-liners. That story tops our roundup of news from elsewhere.
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Thursday’s Briefing: The Reviews Are In
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.
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Tuesday’s Briefing: The Governor’s Moment
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.
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Monday’s Briefing: Paterson Plans A Speech
Atop our roundup of news from around the state is word that the Governor wants to have a talk with all of us. And the news isn’t good.
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Friday’s Briefing: Troopergate Charges
Four of former Governor Eliot Spitzer’s aides face the first charges — not criminal charges, but civil ones — in the case called Troopergate. A panel alleges the men broke the rules in order to dig up dirt on one of Spitzer’s enemies. It’s our top story in today’s roundup of news from around the state.
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Thursday’s Briefing: Tax Cap Picks Up Speed
Atop our daily roundup of news you need to know from elsewhere is fresh word that a plan to cap school property taxes is picking up support, and a rival.
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Wednesday’s Briefing: School’s Never Out
At least, not if you’re a member of state government. Much talk about education in the last day. It’s atop our daily roundup of news from around the state.