The Business Council is focusing on several key energy-related
issues in the weeks before the legislative is scheduled to end June
21.
“The cost of power in New York State is a significant competitive
issue, and our high costs, growing demand, and slowing growth in
capacity are worsening this competitive problem,” said Ken
Pokalsky, director of environmental and economic development programs
The Business Council is urging U.S. Senators Hilary Clinton and
Charles Schumer (D-NY) to support the U.S. - Dominican Republic
- Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) as a way to enhance
trade opportunities and create jobs.
“Enhanced trade export opportunities are crucial to the continued
growth of business in New York and to the jobs that these opportunities
create,” wrote Business Council President Daniel B
A bill that would impose strict new regulations on how one industrial
sector in New York tells customers about products “represents
government regulatory overkill of the highest order,” The
Business Council has told legislators.
The Business Council is opposing the bill (A
Rising health care costs will only be reined in when innovation
and market choice are unleashed in the health care system, agreed
two industry experts at a forum on consumer-driven health plans
in Albany May 26.
The forum, sponsored by the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center,
featured speakers Regina Herzlinger, a professor at the Harvard
School of Business, and Scott Gottlieb, a resident fellow at the
American Enterprise Institute, a public policy think tank
New York State can pull itself out of "dire" economic
straights by building an environment more friendly and supportive
to small businesses, according to a new report by Assemblyman
Joseph D. Morelle (D-Rochester).
Assemblyman Morelle said the goal of his report was to lay out
steps necessary to create an entrepreneurial environment in New
York
ALBANY—The Business Council’s Board of Directors voted Tuesday
May 24 to formally oppose a proposed constitutional amendment that would
“reform” New York State’s budget process.
The proposed amendment would eliminate the strong-executive budget process
created by former Governors Al Smith and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and
recently affirmed by the state’s Court of Appeals
U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton were the featured
speakers at the Chamber Alliance of New York State’s (CANYS)
sixth annual New York Day in Washington, May 11-12 in the nation’s
capital. More than 100 small business people and chamber members
CANYS participated in the two-day event
Echoing strong arguments advanced by The Business Council and others,
a federal appeals court has declared that New York State's controversial,
union-friendly "labor neutrality" law is pre-empted by
the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and a long line of case
law based on it
The Business Council is firmly opposing a bill that would undermine
high education standards and introduce subjectivity to school assessments,
a memo of opposition filed by the Business Council said.
The bill, S.3192/Saland A.6286/Brodsky, would create “portfolio
performance-based assessments
New York State’s workers’ compensation program needs
immediate reform to curb high costs and help employers, Business
Council President and CEO Daniel B. Walsh told Governor Pataki in
a May 13 letter.
“The state's business community needs real reforms to workers'
comp and they need them fast,” Walsh wrote