Cornell University

The hospital-heavy Upper East Side can expect yet another medical arrival, as Cornell’s Weill Medical College seems to be moving ahead with a research facility adjacent to its current campus.  read more »

Listed in this year's state budget that passed last week were $170 million worth of member items which, in the spirit of Everything Changing, were included as a way of bringing some measure of transparency to spending to local projects.

So far, there's no master list that actually says which members proposed which items, although Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno has released his version.

While we're waiting for the rest of the information we want, here's a sampling of some of the discretionary spending in the budget:

Money for the Long Island Maritime Museum ($22,500) and other educational projects, listed here.

Funding for the Nan Shan Senior Center of the Chinese American Planning Council ($2,000) and other senior centers, here.

Money for the Cornell University fluid milk pricing study ($60,000) and other economic development, transportation and projects, here.

-- Azi Paybarah

Before speaking to Cornell University students about corporate corruption, Alan Hevesi's addressed his own corruption scandal. According to the Cornell Daily Sun, Hevesi said, "Don't believe everything you hear. That's my quote."  read more »

The paper also reports that Hevesi dismissed the investigation by the Albany District Attorney into the matter of the state employee who spent time chauffeuring his wife because "he's investigating in response to a candidate calling him up three weeks before an election."

-- Azi Paybarah

Tomorrow's debate at Cornell University will represent John Faso's best chance yet to slow the progress of the Eliot Spitzer juggernaut, even if the timing is less than ideal -- coming just days after his first ethics controversy of the campaign. And as Tom Suozzi learned, Spitzer is a front-runner who isn't afraid to attack his opponents at the podium.

Even though Faso has one ad running now, the debate will be the first time many New Yorkers are seeing his face. (The ad is an attack piece that doesn't even mention Faso's name, except to say that he paid for it.)

Any ideas on how Faso might go after Spitzer beyond the requisite tax-and-spend stuff?  read more »

-- Azi Paybarah