ALBANY—The State Senate will reconvene here at the Capitol the night before David Paterson is expected to present his budget for 2009.
A special session earlier this week ended without any substantive progress after lawmakers were unable to come up with a compromise package. Skelos, who did not provide an alternative plan, threatened to Read More
ALBANY—So, since the budget negotiations have failed to accomplish anything, and Washington isn't going to hand David Paterson a check … what now?
The state is still spending money faster than it comes in, which means that if nothing changes, its general fund will run dry before April 1, when the fiscal year Read More
ALBANY—David Paterson said yesterday's public leaders meeting was "the closest that I’ve ever seen in public to an actual leaders meeting."
Susan Arbetter's New York Now posted this video, which, from where I was sitting yesterday, includes all the highlights.
See for yourself.
“Governor, have you ever been accused of being a child of the Enlightenment?” Dicker said toward the end of a 20-minute radio interview with Paterson on the morning of Nov. 18. “Because children of the Enlightenment believe that rational persuasion Read More
This means no votes will be taken on Paterson’s original $5.2 billion in cuts and adjustments this year, and it leaves a larger deficit next year Read More
"We are ready to act on your bills today, and again you are accusing us of derailing the process," Skelos said during Read More
ALBANY—The halls are packed with lobbyists and legislators, the park outside is packed with demonstrators.
About 1,000 of them, according to Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education. They arrived from around the state on over 30 buses to rally against David Paterson's proposed spending cuts.
The demonstration is being organized by two groups: Read More
ALBANY—David Paterson pled for a truce with State Senate Republicans, continuing to say he will suggest, at a meeting with legislative leaders later today, drawing up a compromise package of budget measures to address a multi-billion dollar deficit.
"We have an immense opportunity to do what California didn't do," he told the Post's Fred Read More
ALBANY—The possibility of action to bridge New York's multi-billion dollar deficit grows slimmer by the minute.
Unable to win passage of any package - his own or a compromise - David Paterson late Monday balked on plans to have lawmakers vote during a special session and called legislative leaders back to the negotiating table. Read More
ALBANY—David Paterson, who has been sounding a fiscal alarm and has trimmed billions of dollars to narrow a budget debt of still billions more, presented details on more proposed cuts today.
"We thought we had created a cushion that would last us through the rest of the year," Paterson said at a A coalition of Read More
