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Jump-Starting Upstate Must Be a Budget Priority
Throughout the budget-negotiation process, I’ve discussed a number of priorities, like the need to help middle-class families, supporting our children’s education, and helping family farmers.
NYFarmNet Reaches Local Farmers
National Ag week was celebrated recently. It’s a week in which we recognize the abundant crops harvested by farmers all over the nation and the
The Sales Answers Have Changed
It is spring as Professor Albert Einstein and his assistant walk across the Princeton University campus. The shy assistant asks the famous physicist if the
Scandals, scandals everywhere. They grind me down. The Washington and Albany news reeks of them. Vanishing emails, outright bribes, and bribes disguised as donations to
Failure to Enact Reforms in Albany is Disappointing
I voted in favor of 17 reform measures on March 9] that would have created more openness and accountability in the [New York] Assembly. The
State’s Email-Deletion Policy Raises Questions
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office announced in 2013 that it would use Microsoft Office 365 — an email and software management system to consolidate
Be Heard: Consensus Seeks Input on Future of Governance in Onondaga County
New York is well known for government. We have lots of it. Central New York is no exception, and that’s why I’m proud that Onondaga
Job One of our Public Figures is to Lie to You
Now, you could get upset over all the whoppers that public figures fling at you. You could proclaim that evil abounds across the fruited plain.
Let Full Legislature Decide on Education
The second biggest budget item in the state budget is education, which is right behind health care. Last year, the state spent $22.3 billion on
Will Rogers said that when Congress makes a law, it’s a joke. And when it makes a joke, it’s a law. These days, when the
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