Time winding down in Albany

This Albany Times-Union Blog entry is another indication of the problems being faced by the state as it attempts to implement the Berger Commissions mandates.
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=598735&category=STATE&newsdate=6/18/2007

The Elmira Star Gazette ran this article on how NYS legislators from their region voted on recent legislation.
http://www.stargazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070618/NEWS01/706180318/1001/NEWS

Brendan Scott of the Times Herald-Record takes a critical look at Albany Politics.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070618/NEWS/706180319

Education and the flight of the educated

This Elmira Star Gazette article takes a look at the uneven effects of No child Left Behind.
http://www.stargazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070611/NEWS01/706110306/1001/NEWS

This editorial and some reader responses, examines some critical elements of the very real problem of the flight of New York's young people.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18403903&BRD=1769&PAG=461&dept_id=82701&rfi=6

Exploring some issues

This Release from the Business Council of New York urges reform of Scaffold Law
http://www.bcnys.org/whatsnew/2007/060507-scaffoldlaw2.htm

Reporter Cara Matthews of the Journal News says that governor Spitzer plans to veto bill to change the way state inmates with mental health issues are treated.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070608/NEWS05/706080385/1021

NY Sun reporter Grace Rauh reports on the booming lobbying industry in New York City.
http://www.nysun.com/article/56192

Health care issues heating up

Brendan Scott, of the Times Herald-Record, takes a look at the effects of the Governor's proposal to provide up to 12 weeks of paid family leave.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070606/NEWS/706060349

Syracuse Post Standard reporter James Mulder says that four unions are combining to try to prevent the merger of two Syracuse hospitals. This on the same day doctors at a Schenectady County hospital announced that they are launching a public relations campaign to keep that facility open in the latest attempt to undo the mandate of the Berger Commission.
http://www.syracuse.com/articles/business/index.ssf?/base/business-9/1181120278234860.xml&coll=1

This Albany Times-Union editorial blasts governor for treatment of prison inmates with mental illness.
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=595555&category=OPINION&BCCode=&newsdate=6/6/2007

Jay Jochnowitz and James Odato cover a lot of state politics in this Albany Times -Union Blog entry.
http://blogs.timesunion.com/capitol/