Many property owners in New York saw smaller tax increases than
in previous years in part because of last year's cap on county Medicaid
costs, state Comptroller Alan Hevesi said in a new report.
The cap, passed last March by lawmakers, makes the state responsible
for any growth in the plan exceeding 3
The state should invest in scholarships to encourage the best and
brightest to become math and science teachers as a key step in reversing
New York's declining number of math, science, and engineering graduates,
Ed Reinfurt, vice president of The Business Council, has told state
lawmakers
State Comptroller Alan Hevesi has proposed 21 fiscal and budget
reforms that he said would help New York produce better and more
timely budgets.
The comptroller said his ideas are designed to help “to improve
how the Legislature, the Executive and the public actually work
together to design and implement the state’s budget
The Business Council is urging its members to understand and address
their compliance obligations under the new state lobbying law that
may affect businesses and employees that are involved in selling
goods and services to state and local governments.
“There is no doubt that the new ‘procurement lobbying
law’ will affect many employers in New York State that sell
goods and services to government in New York, even even for activities
by the employer that don’t constitute conventional lobbying,”
said Ken Pokalsky, the Council’s specialist in state laws
related to lobbying
New York State should radically overhaul its approach to Medicaid
and health-care policy to reduce costs while increasing the number
of New Yorkers who get taxpayer-funded Medicaid coverage, state
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday.
Recent high-tech advances “have made health care much more
expensive for individuals and employers who purchase insurance and
for taxpayers who fund the cost of Medicaid and other public health
programs,” Spitzer, a Democratic candidate for Governor in
2006, said in a luncheon address before the Chamber Alliance of
New York State (CANYS) in Albany
ALBANY—G. Thomas Tranter Jr., president of Corning Enterprises
and director of government affairs for Corning Incorporated, has been
named chairman of the Government Affairs Council of The Business Council
of New York State.
In that volunteer role, he will work with Business Council staff and
government affairs professionals on the Council’s GAC on a range
of policy issues
Arguing that New York’s economy has become too dependent
on taxpayer-financed jobs, a top candidate for the Republican nomination
for Governor this year told the Business Council Board of Directors
that he would make it his top priority to help New York’s
private sector create more jobs
Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General and a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Governor this year, us scheduled to address
leaders of New York State's local and regional chambers of commerce Wednesday,
Jan. 18, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albany. Media coverage is invited
Governor Pataki sent the Legislature a 2006-07 Executive Budget that calls for $3.6 billion in tax cuts, including $786 million in business-tax reductions, while providing new funding for math and science education, and advanced research initiatives.
Most of the new tax cuts would phase in during the state fiscal years starting in 2007 and 2008
ALBANYNew York State's highest-in-the-nation Medicaid spending
now costs an average $2,165 per resident, well over twice the national
average, a new Public Policy Institute analysis shows.
The Institute analyzed Medicaid spending data for New York and the other
49 states as the latest installment in its Just The Facts series
of key economic and statistical indicators for New York