Posted by in New York on 06 17th, 2010 | No Comments
Albany Budget Battle Pits Paterson Against Ravitch
Albany Budget Battle Pits Paterson Against Ravitch
Photograph of Governor Paterson and Lieutenant Governor Ravitch at the January budget presentation from the Governor’s Office Albany lawmakers disagreeing is nothing new, but Governor Paterson’s opposition to his own lieutenant governor’s budget plan— one that includes borrowing...
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Posted by in New York on 06 14th, 2010 | No Comments
Albany May Avoid Gov’t Shutdown, Thanks To GOP Senator
Albany May Avoid Gov’t Shutdown, Thanks To GOP Senator
Photograph of State Senator Hugh Farley (R) by Mike Groll/AP Albany may very well have continue to “work” for another week without a government shutdown (and without a budget) because Republican State Senator Hugh Farley (Schenectady County) said he’d vote with mostly Democrats and...
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Posted by in New York on 06 11th, 2010 | No Comments
Students Walk Out Over MetroCard Cut, Bloomberg Sounds Off
Students Walk Out Over MetroCard Cut, Bloomberg Sounds Off
Hundreds of students did walk out of classrooms this afternoon to protest proposed cuts to the student MetroCard program. The program, which gives free MetroCards to over 500,000 students, may be phased out as the MTA deals with a severe budget shortfall. A few students spoke to the local news stations...
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Posted by in New York on 06 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Legislature Agrees To Cut $750+ Million From Health Care
Legislature Agrees To Cut $750+ Million From Health Care
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, right, walks down the halls of the Legislature (AP) The State Legislature is slowly edging towards agreement on a budget as state lawmakers agreed to Governor Paterson’s emergency bill which has $775 million in cuts and other actions in the state’s health...
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Posted by in New York on 06 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Drunk Driver’s Car Burns Up After Driving on Four Flats
Drunk Driver’s Car Burns Up After Driving on Four Flats
Robert Abreu We don’t care what anyone says about 17-year-old Robert Abreu of Long Island—this kid’s got true grit. Sure, the argument could be made that Abreu was too drunk to drive at 5 a.m. last Sunday, and that even if he had been sober, driving on four flat tires was not going...
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Posted by in New York on 06 7th, 2010 | No Comments
City Council Says State Math Scores "Not Acceptable"
City Council Says State Math Scores "Not Acceptable"
City Council education chairman Robert Jackson was enraged over news that students were getting partial credit for wrong answers on the state math exams. The exams determine which students may advance to the next grade level, and many are worried students receiving partial credit would advance without...
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Posted by in New York on 06 7th, 2010 | No Comments
Sexy Banker’s PR Push Could Cost Her Current Job
Sexy Banker’s PR Push Could Cost Her Current Job
Courtesy the office of Jack Tuckner She says she lost her Citigroup job because of her unbearable pulchritude , but it’s her big mouth that could cost Debbie Lorenzana her current job at Chase. Lorenzana, who is taking legal action against Citigroup after supervisors allegedly terminated her because...
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Posted by in New York on 06 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
State Makes Second Push For Public School Funding
State Makes Second Push For Public School Funding
Flickr user soopahgrover New York submitted its second application for Race to the Top grant program yesterday after a long, controversial battle to raise the cap on charter schools. The previously low cap was just one of many problems with the state’s initial application, which came in close...
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Posted by in New York on 05 30th, 2010 | No Comments
NJ Entrepreneurs Get In On Medical Marijuana
NJ Entrepreneurs Get In On Medical Marijuana
With Jersey’s new law approving the sale and use of medical marijuana going into effect on July 1st, many entrepreneurs in the state are trying to get in the business on the ground floor. Dozens of people have been scraping together business plans to apply to run the first “alternative treatment...
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Posted by in New York on 05 20th, 2010 | No Comments
No More Overtime Pay For State Employees
No More Overtime Pay For State Employees
In order to “significantly reduce expenditures,” Governor Paterson has halted overtime payouts for all state agencies. The new measure would save the state just under $20 million of the $9 billion in debt, but Paterson spokesman Morgan Hook told the Daily News , “As we continue to...
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