Governor
Pataki announced a broad plan to strengthen the Upstate New
York economy, including proposals to adopt a "single sales
factor" that would apply corporate income tax to manufacturers
only on their sales in the state, and to eliminate the alternative
minimum tax
A Message from the President of The Business Council of New York State, Inc.
New York is on the right economic track.
Ten years ago, you couldn’t say that. For many years before the middle of the 1990s, New York had been in a downward spiral. We were hemorrhaging jobs. In 1991 alone, New York State lost more than 300,000 jobs
Throughout our history, from pioneering canal days to the height of America's industrial and manufacturing age, New York has been a national leader in embracing new ideas and technologies to expand commerce, build our economy, and provide opportunity for our citizens.
A glaring exception came a decade or more ago when past state leaders failed to comprehend the benefits and opportunities presented by the computer chip revolution that overnight brought sweeping changes to our national and state economies
Senate Majority
Leader Joseph Bruno has proposed an investment of $500 million in public
and private funds to attract life-sciences industries to New York and to
make the state a leader in job creation in biotechnology.
He unveiled
a plan called Generating Employment through New York Science-GEN*NY*SIS-at
a Dec
Today Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and his colleagues in the Senate
Majority proposed
a farsighted investment in the life sciences in New York. We think this is
a great idea.
The proposed programs would pay intellectual, technological, and economic
dividends for generations
ALBANYThe
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has indicated that a large-scale
dredging of the Hudson River is its preferred option for removing PCBs in
sediment at the river's bottom.
We oppose this
plan. We are unconvinced about the effectiveness of dredging and of the need
to do it
ALBANYThe Business Council and various regional chambers of commerce
around the state have scheduled six more ceremonies in the weeks ahead at
which schools around the state will receive the first annual "Pathfinder Awards."
Pathfinder Awards have already been presented at five similar events
New York State will not have
enough energy capacity to meet its demand unless it sites more power plants
soon, an expert from the Public Service Commission (PSC) has told The Business
Council.
"Electric supplies are tight
for 2001, 2002, and beyond unless new generation is built," Howard Tarler,
Chief of Bulk Transmission Systems for the PSC, said Nov
ALBANYThe Business Council and various regional chambers of commerce
around the state have scheduled ceremonies in the weeks ahead at which schools
around the state will receive the first annual "Pathfinder Awards."
The Business Council created the Pathfinder Awards this year to recognize
schools that show the most improvement from one year to the next as measured
by the state's new academic standards
ALBANYRaymond T. Schuler, who created the New York State Department of Transportation, served as its commissioner under three governors, and then founded The Business Council of New York State, Inc., to build an economic renaissance in his native state, died early Friday. Schuler, 71, had fought cancer for eight years