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David Elliot: Put a Human Face on Spending Priorities What are we sacrificing, and at what cost?
Yubanet.com Across the country, state legislatures are grappling with billion-dollar deficits. The prevailing narrative among Republicans--and many Democrats--is cut, cut, cut. But in some of the nation's most populous states, a few legislators are pushing
Read More »News flash: Albany does good with approval of state budget
NY Daily News Albany Don't be fooled by the grousing and grumbling about how useless everybody and everything in the state capital is supposed to be. The budget was, indeed, four months late and filled with fiscal
Read More »Congress cannot allow the estate tax to lapse
The Buffalo News Buffalo, NY As the media is mostly focused on the health care fight in Congress, the most powerful forces in our nation are quietly gearing up for their next attempt to raid the
Read More »A fair health plan: Rich must pay fair share of costs
Syracuse Post-Standard Syracuse, NY By Karen Scharff and Bob Cohen Now that the Senate, following the House, is debating health care reform legislation this month, another issue is moving toward center stage: How do we fund health
Read More »Health care reform a moral issue
Press & Sun Bulletin Binghamton, NY What's going on with health care reform and why should we care? Recently the Rev. Philip Keane - author, professor of moral theology and health care ethics consultant - visited
Read More »Gov. Paterson must not cut school funding.
Democrat & Chronicle Rochester, NY As students return to school, we have two opportunities to help them receive a quality education: promoting a strong agenda for our new Commissioner of Education and rejecting cuts to the
Read More »El estado y nuestras escuelas
El Diario La Presna NY New York, NY Ahora que los estudiantes están regresando a la escuela, tenemos dos grandes oportunidades para hacer que todos ellos reciban una educación de calidad: promover una agenda adecuada a
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