Today promises to be another painful and chaotic day in the life of New York State.
Gov. Paterson will propose another $3 billion in spending cuts today to fill a budget deficit for the current year. […]
Paterson mandated $500 million in cuts to the operating budgets of all state agencies, with the size of the cuts being made proportional to their budgets. So, the agencies with the largest operating budgets will suffer the largest reductions. The largest belongs to the State University of New York system. SUNY is being asked to give back $90 million from its current budget. […]
This will be awkward.
President Obama will be in Troy today for a speech at Hudson Valley Community College. Gov. David Paterson will be there, too, just one day after the New York Times reported that Obama’s political advisor took the unusual step of meeting with Paterson to ask him not to run for election next year. […]
Here’s an underreported story from yesterday that will affect a lot of folks: From now on, the insurance available through your employer must cover your child up to the age of 29.
The health insurance for young adults measure is important because traditionally, young people drop off their parents’ insurance when they reach 19, or when they graduate from college. […]
It was a short stay near the top for Richard Ravitch.
Governor Paterson appointed the well-regarded downstate political figure to be his Lieutenant Governor at the height of the State Senate leadership crisis, even though his opponents said Paterson violated the state Constitution in doing so. […]
Oswego County municipal leaders are keeping their eyes on the state today, watching for potential changes to the state budget and the affects those changes could have on the county’s bottom line for 2009. According to County Administrator Phil Church, the budget deficit at the state level is making it difficult for counties to seal their own spending plans with confidence. […]
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