NEWS - JUNE / MAY
- Study:
New York ranks low on 'economic freedom' index (June
29, 2005)
- Legislative
session winds down; highlights include energy resolution
(June 24, 2005)
- Council
urges lawmakers to enact comprehensive energy legislation
(June 22, 2005)
- Council
supports bill to require hospitals to report incidences of
hospital-acquired infections (June 17, 2005)
- Council
opposes bill to expand state's 'bottle law' (June
15, 2005)
- Heat
wave shows, again, the need for adding electricity-generating
capacity
(June 15, 2005)
- ‘Runway
spending’
amendment imperils economy, taxpayers (June 13, 2005)
- Homeland
Security Council gathers in Washington for congressional exchange (June
8, 2005)
- Council
to co-host Medicaid/Medicare conference in Albany (June
6, 2005)
- Council
focuses on several energy priorities in final weeks of legislative
session (June 1, 2005)
- Council
urges lawmakers to reject 'restrictive, needless' regulations
on prescription-drug marketing (May 31, 2005)
- Industry
analysts say future of health care should be consumer driven
(May 27, 2005)
- Report:
New York should build economy in which small businesses thrive
(May 25, 2005)
- Council's
Board of Directors votes to oppose budget amendment (May
24, 2005)
- Echoing
Council arguments, court overturns state's controversial 'labor
neutrality' law (May 18, 2005)
- Council
files memo in opposition to legislation that would undermine
education standards (May 18, 2005)
- School
budgets would raise spending by more than twice the inflation
rate, study finds (May 12, 2005)
- Study:
New York increased Medicaid spending despite sharp decline
in tax revenue during recent economic slowdown (May
10, 2005)
- Council
joins coalition for improved health care outcomes (May
9, 2005)
- Business
Council's Homeland Security Council to hold inaugural Congressional
Exchange in Washington, D.C. May 18-19 (May 9, 2005)
- Political
consultant: New Yorkers want substantive policy changes, and
consider an on-time budget necessary but not sufficient (May
5, 2005)
- Council
urges legislators to reduce health-insurance mandates and
reject new ones (May 4, 2005)
- Buffalo
News series confirms that more money does not equal
better education (May 3, 2005)
- Business Council unveils upgraded Web site (May 2, 2005)