The State University of New York is proposing a 2008-09 budget that would raise tuition 5 percent and begin a three-year process to hire 1,000 new professors.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer told Democratic lawmakers at a meeting yesterday that he supports pay hikes.
The governor’s Budget Division is holding a “town hall” meeting Friday to talk about and solicit ideas for closing the projected $4.3 billion budget gap and spend the state’s money next year.
The Spitzer administration recently ordered charter schools—which are publicly funded private institutions—to start paying union wages on all construction, repair and maintenance projects, prompting a lawsuit from several schools.
The state Health Department is considering policy changes following disclosure that a Long Island anesthesiologist’s misuse of syringes put hundreds of patients at risk for hepatitis and HIV.
State Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins’ husband died of kidney failure Monday. Stewart-Cousins is a first-term Democratic senator from Yonkers.
Although hospitals statewide are being scaled down, the Rochester area may need more beds.
The Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport’s October enplanements are the highest they’ve been in seven years.
A Niagara Falls judge was removed from office in connection with a March 2005 court session, in which he ordered that 46 people be jailed when no one would own up to being the culprit for a ringing cell phone in the courtroom. Cell phone and page use are prohibited in the chamber.
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