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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Control board says it can’t save city by itself
State is given two choices: Change its laws or pay ever-increasing amounts of aid
After three years of prodding the city to cut costs, the state control board says it alone cannot fix Buffalo’s fiscal problems. The only way to save the city, the board says, is for […]

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WBEN 930 : Buffalo Gets Over Half-Billion In State Funding
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - Buffalo will gain some 684.3 million dollars in funding after the New York State Legislature closed session on Friday. According to Mayor Byron Brown, the amount awarded could be “…the most state money - more than anyone can remember over the last […]

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Executive Order: Protecting the Property Rights of the American People
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to strengthen the rights of the American people against the taking of their private property, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. It is […]

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Here is something that is light hearted but at the same time it shows how much the Democrats in the assembly like their Republican colleagues.
Daily and Sunday Review - On dinosaurs, bugs, defunct politicians, moribund legislatures
For residents of New York as well as Pennsylvania, it is instructive to note that the legislatures in each state […]

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A Very Late Checkout

(Photo: William Mebane for New York Magazine)

This winter, FEMA put up over 300 Hurricane Katrina evacuees in New York City hotels. Almost all of them have gone back to their lives, their jobs. But not Theon Johnson. He’s currently sprawled out watching Halloween 5
on one of the two full-size beds in […]

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A quick recap of this last day of business in Albany.. More will be coming as I go through all the articles in my mail box.
WXXI: 2006 Session Wraps Up With Property Tax Rebate Agreement (2006-06-23)
ALBANY, NEW YORK (2006-06-23) Governor Pataki and the legislative leaders announced agreements on a property tax rebate and other issues, […]

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