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Watertown Daily Times | After losing, politicians upbeat in return to normal life[1]
After months of grueling roadtrips, endless harvest dinners and umpteen stump speeches, the politicians who lost Tuesday are upbeat as they resume more normal north country existences.
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Speaker Sheldon Silver faces coup rumors in New York Assembly – NYPOST.com[2]
Some foot soldiers in the state Assembly are whispering about something that hasn’t been tried in 10 years — a long-shot attempt to dethrone Sheldon Silver as speaker.
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Are 34 highway departments needed in Cayuga County?[3]
In Cayuga County there are 34 municipal highway departments among towns, villages, the city of Auburn and Cayuga County. Those departments cost nearly $30 million to operate in the 2010 fiscal year, according to data compiled by The Citizen. Another $1 million was spent to pay the salaries of the superintendents and public works directors who manage those individual departments.
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State letters warn of layoffs[4]
By keeping people on the job until the close of business on Dec. 31, the governor is adhering to the oft-mentioned memorandum of understanding his administration signed with PEF and the Civil Service Employees Association that guaranteed no layoffs in exchange for the unions’ support of a less-generous Tier V pension package going forward.
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NY officials want crackdown on caffeinated alcohol[5]
State regulators in New York say they may ask the legislature to give them the power to ban alcoholic energy drinks.
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Around the world, a race against time bombs in air[6]
The woman stepped off Hadda Street into a pair of courier offices in Yemen’s capital. In FedEx and UPS storefronts tucked along shopping centers and travel agencies in San’a, she mailed two Hewlett-Packard printers to the United States..
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Beef prices on the rise[7]
Beef prices are up more than five percent from last year, jumping from an average retail price of $4.18 to $4.40 a pound
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Walgreens says Wegmans took its ‘W’[8]
Walgreens has sued Wegmans. Why? The letter “W” of course. In a suit filed Oct. 27 in U.S. District Court in Virginia, the drugstore chain claims that the “W” in the Rochester-based grocer’s new logo is too similar to the “W” in the Walgreens logo.
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See me, Obi-Wan Kenobi: Scientists seek 3-D video[9]
Scientists say they have taken a big step toward displaying live video in three dimensions – a technology far beyond 3-D movies and more like the “Star Wars” scene where a ghostly Princess Leia image pleads, “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi.”
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Paterson Backs Off Nov. 15 Session[10]
Gov. David Paterson is formally backing off his plans to bring the Legislature back to Albany on Nov. 15 for a lame duck special session,
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Smith: Power-Sharing Is Possible[11]
Senate President Malcolm Smith admitted last night that the Democrats might be forced to negotiate with their GOP enemies on a power-sharing agreement so the house can function if recounting and legal fights in the three cliffhanger races that will determine control of the chamber (or perhaps deadlock it) drag on through January.