Democrat & Chronicle: Editorials
Like New Jersey, New York soon could face a fiscal crisis
(July 6, 2006) — Tempting as it may be for New York state lawmakers to become smug amid the budget crisis New Jersey is confronting, there’s still little for them to crow about.
Actually, it’s beginning to look as if the legislative dysfunction […]

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Taxes are now defining issue
ALBANY - Attorney General Eliot Spitzer had already been on the defensive about his position on tax cuts. So when the gubernatorial front-runner got word that the head of the state Democratic Party had downplayed the importance of tax breaks, Spitzer tried to avert a crisis on what has become the […]

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Democrat & Chronicle: Editorials
An independent panel is needed to redraw districts’ lines
(July 3, 2006) — Most state lawmakers have a stranglehold on their seats in the Legislature by design. It’s called redistricting.
The way redistricting works in this state is that usually after the U.S. census results are tabulated every 10 years, state lawmakers redraw district […]

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Workers’ comp reform remains elusive
For employers and others anticipating reform of New York’s workers’ compensation system and the so-called scaffold law, the wait likely will stretch well past January when the new governor takes office.
At mid-year - the end of the state legislative session before summer break - there was some activity but not enough […]

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Buffalo News - Medicaid savings could top $10 million
Who would have thought it? Medicaid, of all programs, is providing a benefit for Erie County’s bottom line and taking some pressure off 2007.
It seems that New York’s program to cap the cost of Medicaid for its counties has been underestimated. Under a new advisory from the […]

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INSIGHT
“In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man—these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in religious convictions. They belong to […]

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