links for 2010-11-09

• New rules make gift cards more consumer friendly
  Now, the new Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act will make it easier for your loved ones to enjoy your gift.
• Mr. Gibbs Sides With the Press in India – NYTimes.com
  The White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, is known for his angry tirades directed at reporters. But Mr. Gibbs turned his famous intensity on Indian security officials Monday morning — in defense of the American press corps — after the officials tried to bar reporters from attending a meeting between the leaders of the two countries in New Dehli
• Texas Considers Medicaid Withdrawal – NYTimes.com
  Some Republican lawmakers — still reveling in Tuesday’s statewide election sweep — are proposing an unprecedented solution to the state’s estimated $25 billion budget shortfall: dropping out of the federal Medicaid program.
• Schroeppel town board to reconsider some parks and recreation cuts
  The Schroeppel town board likely will consider restoring some money for the town’s parks and recreation program to the proposed 2011 budget.
• Time Warner Cable introduces Look Back service
  Starting Tuesday, customers of Time Warner Digital Cable can go back up to three days to watch shows that they’ve missed. The new feature is called “Look Back.”
• Anheuser-Busch plant in Lysander lays off 33 workers
  Layoffs are in addition to 10 to 15 temporary, voluntary layoffs since September.
• Syracuse parents, school officials, community leaders, politicians to meet on youth violence
  Mary Nelson, who runs a Syracuse youth center, is rounding up city officials, teen-agers, parents, school district leaders, clergy and pretty much anyone else with an interest in the community’s young people to brainstorm about youth violence.
• Pataki: I won't rule out running for President in 2012.
  "I'm looking right now. We're still a week out of the elections. I want to see who else is out there and think about it."
• Cuomo: Don't throw money at NY fiscal problems
  With New York government facing a projected $9 billion operating deficit next year, Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo said Monday there's no room for new taxes or otherwise buying the state's way out of fiscal trouble
• Oil hits year high, retail gas prices on the rise
  Demand isn't driving the increase like it did in the spring when gasoline rose to $2.92 per gallon just ahead of the peak driving season.

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