links for 2011-04-26

• Are landlines on the way out?
  A new government study shows fewer people are using landlines to make phone calls.
• Perez: Health Of New York “Incredibly Important” To Kodak
  Eastman Kodak CEO Antonio Perez co-chaired today’s first meeting of the governor’s SAGE Commission, which is aimed at cutting state agencies by 20 percent.
• NY judge fumes at woman who won't quit smoking
  A New York judge who freed a woman from jail so she could get a heart transplant is fuming after learning she's yet to be accepted into a transplant program because of her smoking..
• Campaign to enforce 'Move Over' law underway
  There's a new campaign in the works to enforce a new state law. The Move Over Law requires drivers to slow down and move away from the lane closest to an emergency vehicle. It became law at the beginning of the year. But are drivers obeying it?
• Gov. Andrew Cuomo's big donors are on government efficiency panel
  Seven of the more than 20 members on a government efficiency panel are among Cuomo's biggest contributors, donating more than $245,000 to campaigns dating to his attorney general race in 2006.
• New York: N.Y. government redesign tackled
• Trump: Obama wasn't qualified for the Ivy League universities he attended
  "I heard he was a terrible student, terrible," Trump said. "How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?"
• Free lunch for deliberating New York jurors ends
  State looks for ways to cut court budget by $170 million.

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