NEWS - AUGUST 2004

• Survey: On Labor Day 2004, employers see little relief from continuing increases in their health insurance costs (August 31, 2004)
  
  
• Bond rating agency warns it may downgrade New York State (August 30, 2004)
  
  
• Donations for hurricane relief efforts are sought (August 26, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. Rep. Amo Houghton to receive Corning Award for Excellence (August 23, 2004)
  
  
• Governor Pataki vetoes $1.8 billion from Legislature's budget, warns of major gap in 2005 (August 20, 2004)
  
  
• Business Council President Dan Walsh urged Governor Pataki to veto spending the Legislature added to this year's budget (August 19, 2004)
  
  
• DEC moves to reimpose stringent, costly regulations on industrial emissions (August 18, 2004)
  
  
• Indicator of New York State manufacturing employment fell 'markedly' (August 16, 2004)
  
  
• Study: Upstate taxpayers pay up to $6 billion a year extra in taxes, mainly to fund high spending on local governments and Medicaid (August 16, 2004)
  
  
• Legislature approves first $100 billion budget; Governor Pataki says he will veto some spending (August 12, 2004)
  
  
• State repeals onerous fee that inflates costs of environmental cleanups (August 12, 2004)
  
  
• Unions' political party endorses Senators who supported minimum-wage vote (August 10, 2004)
  
  
• A new effort to raise workers' comp rates emerges; the new proposal is to increase average rates by 9.5 percent (August 10, 2004)
  
  
• Council defends lawmakers from political punishment imposed after they tried to restrain growth in the nation's heaviest tax burden (August 6, 2004)
  
  
• Council urges state to adopt, efficient, accountable transportation plan (August 5, 2004)
  
  
• Panel discussion on 'Dysfunction Junction' in Albany planned for Council's Annual Meeting (August 5, 2004)

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