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NYS budget deficit: Devise your own plan?
Spin CycleWith a special session set for Nov. 18, today was the day Gov. Paterson had set for the legislature to suggest ideas for closing a $1.5-billion gap. They didn't. Paterson hasn't submitted a plan either -- he's hanging out with......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Government, National Government, Bankruptcy, New York
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Rhetoric meets reality for Obama agenda
The SwampBy Jim Tankersley Forget "hope" and "change" and "yes we can." The word that will matter most, when Barack Obama assumes the Oval Office, is "doable." Teary-eyed jubilation is giving way to clear-eyed realism. As his campaign rhetoric runs into......Tags: Energy, Economy, Business and Finance, National Government, Government, Ted Strickland
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Paterson budget plan: Here's the link (Updated)
Spin CyclePaterson's deficit reduction plan is here. The deepest cuts, as he predicted, are in school aid ($585 million) and Medicaid/health care ($572 million). According to the governor's pie charts, they constitute 52 percent of the state general fund spending,...Tags: Laws, State University of New York, Government, State Budgets, Parliament
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Skelos: No midyear school cuts
Spin CycleThe fabulous Melissa Mansfield of our Albany bureau reports that Republican Senate Majority (for now) Leader Dean Skelos has pretty much ruled out the midyear school aid cuts proposed by Paterson Wednesday in remarks following an evening GOP confab:......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Government, State Budgets, Parliament, Manhattan (New York City)
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Ten for Wednesday: Levy seizes the airwaves
Spin CycleAfter a slow start following the hate murder of Marcelo Lucero, Suffolk exec Steve Levy tried to step up to the plate with a televised speech on racism last night. Janison says the speech could be a "defining moment"......Tags: Alaska, Government, National Government, Parliament, Minnesota
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Albany: Back to the drawing board?
Spin CycleThe reviews were not very good for the Senate Republicans' performance in submarining the special session last week to close the budget deficit, and offering no meaningful alternative to Gov. Paterson's proposed workforce, health and school aid cuts. Late...Tags: Government, National Government, Parliament, Budgets and Budgeting, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Gov to NYers: I hear you!
Spin CycleGov. Paterson says he's accumulated 1000 comments at his PatersonForNY.com site, and blasts out an email in response that suggests he's still pretty fixed on cuts, not tax increases, to deal with the budget gap: "More striking than the......Tags: Executive Branch, Economy, Business and Finance, Government, National Government, State Budgets
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Video: Health ad, already
Spin CycleGNYHA and 1199 (the hospitals and the union) are already on the air, hiding behind the name Healthcare Education Project, calling for "Fair Share Tax Reform" -- which is their term for protecting themselves by urging Paterson to raise taxes......Tags: Income Tax, Hospitals and Clinics, National Government, Government, State Budgets
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Siena: Cuomo over Caroline, 26-23
Spin CycleSiena has another poll on who Gov. Paterson should pick to replace Hillary Clinton: Cuomo outpolls Caroline Kennedy 26-23, and outpolls her 30-28 among Democrats. Kirsten Gillibrand got 7 percent, Brian Higgins 6 percent, Tom Suozzi 5 percent. Twenty...Tags: Polls, Sales, Government, National Government, Real Estate Sales
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Fact Sheet: On the auto deal
Spin CycleA White House fact sheet on the auto rescue deal appears after the jump.......Tags: CEO Pay, Services and Shopping, White House, Vehicles, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Chuck: Medicaid grandstanding?
Spin CycleToday, Schumer issues multiple press releases and convenes a conference call announcing that he is coming to the rescue of New York's beleaguered localities with a provision in the stimulus package giving them more money for Medicaid -- $100......Tags: Chuck Schumer, Economy, Business and Finance, National Government, Government, State Budgets
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Obama: Speech here
Spin CycleObama's big speech, in which he tries to build support for the stimulus package, is after the jump. The thrust seems to be the need for speed, and Nancy Pelosi is projecting a package by Feb. 16. For Congress,......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Government, National Government, Investments, State Budgets
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