Thursday’s Briefing: Good On The Little Stuff

State Legislators face a sticky set of challenges as the legislative session draws to a close. Constituents (that’s you and me, or most of us, anyway) overwhelmingly want the state to cap school tax increases at 4% a year. And in these final furious days of the session, the Legislature is doing something.

And a Huzzah! went up across the land as the Legislature acted on the big issues:

• Forced overtime for nurses
• Teacher sex with students
• A solar energy tax cut
• Medical marijuana use

I can hear you sayin’, “Now, wait just a doggone minute, Skippy. Where’s the tax cap?”

Well, um, you see….er….oh…..there’s a bit of a problem.

And as long as I’m fessing up, I oughta tell you that a lot of big stuff just ain’t happenin’.

And I guess you need to know this, too: Sometimes, your favorite legislator votes to kill a plan that he proposed himself.

Just another year in Paradise, eh?

Elsewhere:

• Attorney General Cuomo’s BOCES pension fraud probe gets wider and wider.
• The state’s courts will be a bit friendlier to those facing home foreclosure.
• The death penalty debate rears its head.
• And thank God the Legislature has protected all of us from the threat of Mixed Martial Arts fights.

What’d we miss? Drop a link or your random thoughts into the comments.

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