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Just in time for Friday’s shopping rush, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has an advisory for people about the ever-popular gift cards. Some have expiration dates, and fees for using them after a period of time and fees to check the remaining balance.
What got my interest though, was the ...
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General David Petraeus
Doris Kearns Goodwin was a young woman in her twenties when she became an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson. Forty years later, her interest in the Oval Office hasn’t waned. She has written on the most famous men to occupy the White House: FDR, JFK, Lincoln and–her newest ...
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Lyndon Bode
Here are the links to download copies of the Appropriations and Article VII DRP bills.
Click here for the Appropriations bill. And here for the Article VII bill.
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Good morning, folks. Here’s the news…
Gov. David Paterson introduces a deficit reduction bill, as well as a constitutionally controversial request of unilateral budget-cutting power. (TU/ Newsday/ DN)
That proposal landed with a “predictable thud.” (NYT)
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There may not be a three-way agreement over the DRP, but Gov. David Paterson has amended his original DRP proposal to accommodate legislative leaders’ (particularly the Senate’s) concerns about mid-year school aid cuts and cuts to health care that would endanger federal matches to ...
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Medicaid
Former Acting State Police Superintendent Preston Felton, one of two cases remaining from the Spitzer-Bruno battle over helicopter flights and accusations of political espionage, has settled with the state on Commission on Public Integrity.
He admits to violating public officers law in ...
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General David Petraeus
Judy Enck, one of Albany’s environmentalist stalwarts, made a goodbye visit to the Capitol press rooms a few minutes ago. It’s the last day for Enck as the governor’s deputy secretary for the environment, as she departs for New York City where she will serve as President ...
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Eliot Spitzer
It’s been nearly six months since the Senate coup, and Gov. David Paterson has done something that no other politician has managed: He has brought the Democratic and Republican Senate together. The only problem They are lined up against the governor and his proposal to turn over ...
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The Senate Committee of Inquiry into the misdemeanor assault conviction of Hiram Monserrate held its second meeting Monday night. The two-and-a-half-hour session looked at the courtroom arguments in the case as laid out by prosecution and defense. The non-jury trial before Judge William Erlbaum ...
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Appropriations Committee
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Rick Lazio, still the only declared Republican candidate for the 2010 gubernatorial race, thinks the governor’s proposal of an “Executive Option” that would grant him broad powers to make midyear cuts sounds, well, a little familiar: Lazio raised a very similar proposal in an ...
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General David Petraeus
Here are the program bills the governor will be sending to the Legislature:
Gpb #211 Governor’s Payment Reduction Memo
Gpb #211 Governor’s Payment Reduction Bill
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General David Petraeus
Gov. David Paterson just announced via Webcast that he’ll send his deficit-cutting proposal to the Legislature, but asked that it be given an up-or-down vote.
” … I understand that many legislators are afraid of the political consequences they will face if they approve this ...
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The governor will speak via satellite and Webcast, presumably on the status of budget negotiations and unilateral actions he might be willing to take to alleviate the state’s fiscal crisis.
More as we learn it.
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Good morning! The question for the day, and maybe the next few days: Which comes first, the Bruno verdict or the deficit-reduction agreement?
The Bruno trial wraps up with closing arguments that the former senator was a schoolyard bully or a devoted public servant. (TU)
Analysis of some ...
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General David Petraeus
There were two leaders’ meeting this afternoon — a three-way meeting between Gov. David Paterson, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson at the governor’s mansion, followed by a five-way leaders’ meeting on the 2nd floor of the Capitol.
On ...
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As predicted, today’s Senate session clocked in at a coup-worthy 10 minutes, most of it taken up by an extremely comprehensive invocation from a visiting pastor from Rome.
On the floor, Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson delivered a brief report on DRP negotiations that ...
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General David Petraeus
Progress report on today’s “special” session: No progress. Legislators will gavel in, gavel out.
And if your in need of a laugh amid the summer coup flashbacks, above you’ll find a video tribute, in the form of Toni Tony Tone’s “Anniversary”. ...
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Last week’s episode features a look at the damage done to the local economies around the Champlain Bridge; a newsmaker interview with Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava; and a reporters roundtable with Kyle Hughes of NYSNYS and James Madore of Newsday.
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Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. will be spending the day in the Bronx, and has no plans to journey to Albany either for a Democratic conference meeting or the 2 p.m. session. Instead, he’ll be taking part in a protest against gun violence in his district.
“If something happens, I can be there ...
