Wednesday’s Links Worth Clicking

• NY Pension Costs Could Explode
  The state’s fiscal problems go much deeper than the roughly 10 billion dollar deficit facing lawmakers and Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo next year.
• OTB bill fails in Senate; ‘lights the wick on a stick of dynamite’
  The Senate has voted down a bill designed to keep New York City’s bankrupt Off Track Betting operations afloat, tying an anchor that will sink its operations as soon as Wednesday.
• Having His State, And Eating It Too
  A reader forwarded this photo of Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo’s birthday cake, baked in the shape of the state of which he’ll soon be in charge.
• Governor set his priorities for pork
  Gov. David Paterson’s member items, which were quietly authorized a week ago by his budget director, represented priorities the governor has identified and will have no impact on the budget, said his chief deputy, Larry Schwartz.
• Neighbors speak out in deer culling debate
  A battle has been waged in the small village of Cayuga Heights. It is neighbor versus neighbor on whether or not to kill most of the village’s deer population.
• Stockbridge Valley, Morrisville-Eaton, Hamilton and Madison Schools consider merger; holding meeting tonight at 7 p.m. – oneidadispatch.com
  Four area boards of education will hold an informational meeting to discuss opportunities for sharing costs, consolidation and mergers.
• Boosters seek to push ‘rooftop highway’ ahead
  The concept of an Interstate connecting Watertown and Plattsburgh has been the holy grail of North Country economic developers for decades.
• Policy push leads to shove
  Two Assembly staffers who took part in a Monday news conference designed to press Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo to sign on to a set of policies important to Latino groups lost their jobs hours later.

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