NEWS - APRIL 2000

• Council urges comprehensive approach to restructuring and refinancing state Superfund (April 28, 2000)
  
  
• Council asks members to identify post-budget priorities(April 27, 2000)
  
  
• New poll: Council's priorities mirror concerns of upstate New Yorkers(April 27, 2000)
  
  
• Council's recommended reading: Gerstner's speech on privacy policy(April 27, 2000)
  
  
• Funding requests sought for worker training created in '99 by Bruno's 'J2K'(April 27, 2000)
  
  
• Council urges lawmakers to reject environmental 'citizen suits'(April 27, 2000)
  
  
• Council's 'e-advocacy' on GRT continues(April 27, 2000)
  
  
• Legislators suspend formal action on budget until May 1 (April 19, 2000)
  
  
• Council, Cornell, other institutions plan conference on genomics May 17-18 (April 19, 2000)
  
  
• Summaries of latest legislative conference committee meetings (April 13, 2000)
  
  
• Governor Pataki to give keynote at Council's Annual Dinner May 8 (April 13, 2000)
  
• Council's 'e-advocacy' yields 16,706 letters on GRT April 13, 2000)
  
  
• Council voices opposition to new 'brownfield' legislation(April 13, 2000)
  
  
• Council's workers' comp trust welcomes proposed regulations on self-insurance(April 13, 2000)
  
  
• Council's workers' comp trust shows strong growth; 26.5% dividend declared(April 13, 2000)
  
  
• More Upstate residents may be leaving, study finds (April 12, 2000)
  
  
• Legislative leaders, Governor announce three-way agreement on budget "framework," including $1.2 billion in tax cuts; conference committees to resolve tax and spending details (April 4, 2000)
  
  
• Council asks chambers, associations to urge Wicks Law reform (April 12, 2000)
  
  
• Members' input sought on 'electronic-signature' regulations(April 12, 2000)
  
  
• DEC announces pollution-prevention awards (April 12, 2000)
  
  
• State offers free on-line index of businesses (April 12, 2000)
  
  
• DEC schedules pollution-prevention workshops (April 12, 2000)
  
  
• Former Council staffer to head Environmental Facilities Corporation (April 12, 2000)
  
• Council supports Assembly Minority's education tax credit plan (April 3, 2000)
  
  
• Citizens Budget Commission urges GRT reduction, spending restraint (April 3, 2000)

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