State lawmakers come back to Albany at the end of the week to take up the Governor’s call for big budget cuts.
- But will they do it? History suggests they won’t. And this analysis suggests many lawmakers have their fingers in their ears when the Gov. talks about a budget crisis.
- The NY Times explores what went into Paterson’s decisions.
- The Times also gets “experts” to argue whether it’s really a “crisis” or not, as if that mattered to the overtaxed and underemployed.
- Gov. Paterson’s not ruling out taxes to help fill the gap, but one thing he’ll fight is a pay raise for legislators.
Gonna be interesting, that’s for sure.
Elsewhere:
- One state union’s boiling mad that you can look up every state worker’s salary. The union may sue.
- The NY Post says a still-secret state audit shows tens of thousands of people leave the state but stay on, and keep getting checks from, the taxpayer-funded Medicaid rolls.
- New taxpayer group will sue to stop economic development loans and benefits.
- If a State Senator from Illinois can run for President, can these New York State Senators run for something, too?
- If NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg runs for Governor in 2010, NY Post’s Fred Dicker says the current Governor will bow out.
- Rochester D&C says Republicans like their chances in Renzi v. Aubertine, and a couple of other races.
- Some of the new benefits for gay couples legally married elsewhere include shooting bear on your spouse’s land.
- Racinos’ machines go ka-ching!
- Mothers fight for the legal right to breastfeed babies.
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