Buffalo News - Legislature Democrats stay true to labor-friendly roots
Unions helped give Democrats control of county government, and that support has paid off.
By MATTHEW SPINA
News Staff Reporter
6/26/2006
Erie County’s Democratic lawmakers are showing a zeal for pro-labor causes. But then, organized labor fortified last year’s election campaigns and helped the party cement its grip on the […]

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Power play — TimesUnion.com
A plan to save taxpayers money is thwarted in a raw display of Capitol politics
Some ideas to save taxpayers money are so self-evident that it’s hard to imagine anyone opposing them. Then again, some facts of life in the Capitol are just as self-evident, which is why these good ideas never […]

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Taking a Back Seat - The New York Sun
Now that the 2006 legislative session is almost over, state lawmakers will soon be returning to their districts to raise money and hit the campaign trail with an eye toward November’s election.
But even though it’ll be a few more months before voters head to the polls, it […]

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‘F’ is for full
Charter schools top out, students left behind
At the Carl C. Icahn Charter School in the South Bronx, Natalie Ellis has the unenviable job of calling more than 150 parents each year to tell them the school has no room for their kids.
“They’re devastated,” she said. “They say, ‘Please! Is there anything you […]

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Here come the jobs — Page 1 — TimesUnion.com
The timing could not have been better. Just days after the U.S. Census Bureau showed upstate New York population growth during the last decade was slower than any state except North Dakota and West Virginia, state officials and executives of a California-based computer chip manufacturer announced plans […]

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