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Budget Battle Continues in Albany

While Governor David Paterson has been pushing the legislature to cut the state budget by $3.2 billion, top Democrats have been reluctant to make the tough cuts to education and hospitals, opting to push for bigger debt in order to keep their jobs.

While the State Assembly is on board, the State Senate, particularly the Carl Krueger-led finance committee, has been reluctant to make tough, unpopular, but seemingly necessary decisions.

In response to the stalling by the Senate, Paterson has proposed an emergency bill that would allow him to make the necessary cuts, and thus taking the …continue reading

Pressure On New York City Democrats to Back Health Care

Groups with union backing are now pressuring House Democrats from New York and New Jersey to back the party’s efforts to change the health care system.

The organizations include the Communications Workers of America and the Working Families Party. Both parties say that they are disappointed that New York City and New Jersey lawmakers voted against the health care bill that was approved by the House earlier this month. They also said that it is possible they would withdraw their political support from them or even oppose them in next year’s elections unless they back the legislation.

This is not a pleasant though …continue reading

NYPD Won’t Stop Stop-and-Frisk Program

When Michael Bloomberg campaigned for re-election, one of his biggest claims was his work to lower crime in the city. While crime did indeed go down under the Bloomberg but so did the level of civil liberties that New Yorkers have.

Now, it appears that the controversial and seemingly unconstitutional NYPD Stop-and-Frisk program will continue despite countless calls from civil liberties and beleaguered New Yorkers to stop the searches of innocent New Yorkers.

The NYPD’s Stop-and-Frisk program has been going on for years. Each and every year the NYPD stops more than half of a million New …continue reading

Majority of GOP Doesn’t Think Obama Really Won

All too often, partisanship in the United States grows to inexplicable proportions. A recent poll done by Public Policy Polling revealed that more than 50% of Republican voters believe that liberal non-profit group ACORN stole the election for Obama despite the fact that the President received more votes than any candidate in history and no voting irregularities involving ACORN registered voters have ever been reported.

While ACORN has been caught up in a scandal about what their group really does and employees registering fake voters because they are paid for every voter that they sign up, none of …continue reading

Bloomberg Budget Move Means Layoffs

While Mayor Mike Bloomberg is saying that he doesn’t want to layoff any city workers in order to get the city out of its economic funk, his office’s recent budget maneuvering has made layoffs all but certain.

Bloomberg had planned to layoff more than 20,000 workers earlier this year but the Obama stimulus package helped save those jobs. Not a year later, City Hall is moving back to original plan while New York City continues to see its unemployment rate grow. In Brooklyn, the unemployment rate is already a whole percent higher than the national rate.

According …continue reading

NYC Magazine

Budget Battle Continues in Albany

Pressure On New York City Democrats to Back Health Care

NYPD Won’t Stop Stop-and-Frisk Program

Majority of GOP Doesn’t Think Obama Really Won

Bloomberg Budget Move Means Layoffs

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