Former Lawmaker Takes Aim At City School Board
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - Former Buffalo Assemblyman Arthur Eve was among a handful of residents calling on the city school board to take action on a number of issues, including student arrests and AIDS.
Eve says schools are not doing enough in the classroom to help control problems like […]

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“When the jobs don’t grow, people go”
Upstate New York is staggering from an accelerating exodus of young adults, new census results show. The migration is turning many communities grayer, threatening the long-term viability of ailing cities and raising concerns about the state’s future tax base.
From 1990 to 2004, the number of 25-to-34-year-old residents in the […]

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Suozzi, Faso said Spitzer tax cut plan flawed, phony — Newsday.com
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Democratic candidate for governor Tom Suozzi found a crowd Tuesday that knew him well and applauded the underdog candidate’s plan to unburden local taxpayers by fixing Albany.
“I’ve walked your walk,” Suozzi told the New York Conference of Mayors, “I know what […]

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Senate Republicans say Assembly is coddling murderers
ALBANY, N.Y. The state Senate’s Republican majority says Assembly Democrats are acting to “coddle murderers” after the Assembly effectively ended an effort to revive New York’s death penalty.
Charles Carrier, spokesman for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, says Assembly Democrats have decided that life without parole is the appropriate maximum penalty […]

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Assembly committee blocks bill to stop `double dipping’ — Newsday.com
ALBANY, N.Y. — Public employees will continue to be eligible to collect twice for the same injury, costing taxpayers millions of dollars each year.
An Assembly committee this week stopped a bill that would have given municipalities the right to have jury awards for the lost future […]

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