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)

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