NEWS - MAY 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)