showOdiogoReadNowButton (“134413”, “Budget group applauds governors proposed cuts”, “5204”, 290, 55);

showInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (“134413”, “5204”, 290, 0);

While health-care groups decried Gov. David Paterson’s proposed budget cuts today, the Citizens Budget Commission of New York City had the opposite reaction. The governor laid out ways the state could reduce spending by more than $1 billion, including cuts to Medicaid and local [...]

showOdiogoReadNowButton (“134413”, “Maybe the prison library will have openings”, “5162”, 290, 55);

showInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (“134413”, “5162”, 290, 0);

   A former state employee pleaded guilty today to second-degree grand larceny, a felony, for stealing more than $50,000 worth of artifacts and documents from the state archives, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo reported. The thefts, which took place between Jan. 1, [...]

showOdiogoReadNowButton (“134413”, “Ex-State Police head fumed at Troopergate records release”, “5159”, 290, 55);

showInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (“134413”, “5159”, 290, 0);

   Former Acting State Police Superintendent Preston Felton said he never knew travel records his department gathered on now-former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno would be published in a newspaper. The information was released by now-former Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s [...]

showOdiogoReadNowButton (“134413”, “Spitzer aide was torn between clearing name, loyalty”, “5157”, 290, 55);

showInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (“134413”, “5157”, 290, 0);

   Attorney General Andrew Cuomo tried to convince now-former Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s one-time communications director, Darren Dopp, to speak with Cuomo’s staff about what became known as Troopergate last summer. Documents released today by Albany County District Attorney David Soares show that [...]

showOdiogoReadNowButton (“134413”, “Union: cuts may force SUNY to turn away students”, “5150”, 290, 55);

showInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (“134413”, “5150”, 290, 0);

United University Professions, a union of 35,000 professional and academic faculty, says Gov. David Paterson’s call for more state-budget cuts will take another $96 million away from the State University of New York and “will irrevocably damage the [...]

showOdiogoReadNowButton (“134413”, “A primer on NYs property tax burden”, “5129”, 290, 55);

showInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (“134413”, “5129”, 290, 0);

As Albany leaders continue to grapple with how to reduce New York’s local and state tax burden, Westchester County residents who want more information on the topic will have plenty of opportunities to watch an ongoing series on property taxes by Assembly [...]

showOdiogoReadNowButton (“134413”, “A hunger for information”, “5125”, 290, 55);

showInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (“134413”, “5125”, 290, 0);

   The Empire Center for New York State Policy’s new www.SeeThroughNY.net Web site received more than 40,000 unique “hits” in its first day, which was more traffic than expected and bogged the site down. It turns out a lot of public employees were particularly interested [...]

showOdiogoReadNowButton (“134413”, “New Yorkers lack confidence”, “5108”, 290, 55);

showInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (“134413”, “5108”, 290, 0);

 Although consumer confidence in New York is up slightly, the state lags behind the nation in this area, according to a Siena Research Institute poll released today. The confidence level increased 0.8 points in July while the nation’s confidence rose 4.8 points. But at [...]

showOdiogoReadNowButton (“134413”, “Cuts, hiring freezes on tap to address fiscal crisis”, “5107”, 290, 55);

showInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (“134413”, “5107”, 290, 0);

   In a 10:30 a.m. address, Gov. David Paterson is going to announce that he wants a roughly 7 percent reduction in state agency spending, on top of the 3.35 percent cut already included in the $121.7 billion [...]

showOdiogoReadNowButton (“134413”, “In his own words”, “5103”, 290, 55);

showInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (“134413”, “5103”, 290, 0);

This is a transcript of what Gov. David Paterson said in his five-minute address. It took five minutes to recite the 772 words.My fellow New Yorkers,

Our state now faces increasingly harsh economic times. When I travel across the State I see communities suffering. [...]