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2007 News Story Archive
“Spitzer Sides With DiNapoli Over Cuomo On Pension Fund”
[PDF]Elizabeth Benjamin, Daily News Blog, December 12, 2007.
“New Coalition Will Study Universal Health Care”
[PDF]Staff Reporter of the Sun, The New York Sun, December 11, 2007.
“Few congregations seek U.S. grants”
[PDF]Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, December 7, 2007.
“What to do about rising property taxes?”
[PDF]Robert Ward, WAMC Public Radio, December 6, 2007.
“Berger Commission’s Cost”
[PDF]Ted Phillips & Dakin Campbell, The Bond Buyer, December 6, 2007.
“Web site lets New Yorkers track government”
[PDF]Melissa Mansfield, Newsday, December 6, 2007.
“Facing Tough Times, Spitzer Prepares for Budget Battle”
[PDF]Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times, December 4, 2007.
“Approved state contracts will have transparency, state controller vows”
[PDF]Joe Mahoney, Daily News, November 29, 2007.
“DiNapoli to propose budget process changes”
[PDF]James T. Madore, Newsday, November 29, 2007.
“DiNapoli to propose budget reform: In speech at Rockefeller Institute, comptroller will call for restricting debt, reducing authorities’ powers”
[PDF]James M. Odato, The Times Union, November 29, 2007.
“State Comptroller Calls for Reform”
[PDF]Karen DeWitt, WXXI Public Radio, Rochester, NY, November 29, 2007.
“SUNY plans require huge state investment”
[PDF]Cara Matthews, The Ithaca Journal, November 29, 2007.
“After a Rough Start, Spitzer Rethinks His Ways”
[PDF]Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times, November 27, 2007.
“Bush Bears Fruit: New discoveries pave the way for ethical stem-cell research, thanks to the president’s policies”
[PDF]Wesley J. Smith, National Review Online, November 20, 2007.
“No cheap remedy in universal care: Albany forum told that new programs in Massachusetts, Maine carry expensive costs”
[PDF]Cathleen F. Crowley, The Times Union, November 15, 2007.
“Mississippi governor talks Katrina on his reelection bid”
[PDF]Richard Fausset, The Los Angeles Times, November 5, 2007.
“States’ coffers are feeling a pinch: Housing bust and falling sales-tax revenues remind some officials of the period before 2001 recession”
[PDF]Daniel B. Wood, The Christian Science Monitor, October 23, 2007.
“Washington, D.C. spends $10,829 per pupil: study”
[PDF]Joan Gralla, Reuters News Service, October 22, 2007.
“Budget director: Higher ed. key to upstate economy”
[PDF]Kyle Miller, The Legislative Gazette, October 22, 2007.
“State’s small size equals high taxes”
[PDF]Anthony J. DiBella, The Providence Journal, October 16, 2007.
“Report: Help of nonprofits running dry”
[PDF]Joe Gyan, Jr., The Advocate, October 16, 2007.
“PAR Report On Not For Profits”
[PDF]Bayou Buzz, October 15, 2007.
“Assembly GOP exploring possibility of recall: A measure allowing the removal of a sitting governor would likely require a change in the constitution”
[PDF]Rick Karlin, The Times Union, October 13, 2007.
“State budgets tenuous heading into ‘08”
[PDF]Pamela M. Prah, Stateline.org, October 10, 2007.
“Hevesi in middle of comptroller probe — again”
[PDF]Michael Gormley, Newsday, October 7, 2007.
“Sharing for good of the taxpayers: Governor’s push, local examples of cost-saving moves warrant closer study by all governments”
[PDF]The Star-Gazette, (Elmira/Corning, NY), September 27, 2007.
“Tax Report: State tax revenue growth perks up, a new survey says”
[PDF]Tom Herman, The Wall Street Journal, September 26, 2007.
“PAR: Bureaucracy slowing recovery”
[PDF]New Orleans City Business, September 24, 2007.
“Louisiana Has Been Treated Unfairly After Katrina and Rita”
[PDF]The Daily Advertiser, (Lafayette, LA), September 22, 2007.
“La. given less than its share, report says”
[PDF]David Hammer, The Times-Picayune, September 20, 2007.
“Report blasts feds for slow recovery”
[PDF]Joe Gyan, Jr., The Advocate, September 19, 2007.
“Report: Bureaucracy slowing post-K recovery”
[PDF]New Orleans City Business, September 18, 2007.
“Louisiana Has Been Treated Unfairly After Katrina and Rita: Kopplin”
[PDF]Bayou Buzz, September 18, 2007.
“Federal Funding For Embryo Research Unlikely To Rise After Bush”
[PDF]BioEdge: Bioethics News for Health and Legal Professionals and the Media, August 22, 2007.
“Comptroller warns counties of overreliance on sales tax”
[PDF]Ariel Zangla, The Daily Freeman, August 19, 2007.
“‘Time bomb’ health costs: State’s estimated 30-year bill adds up to nearly $20 billion”
[PDF]Sean Reilly, The Press-Register, Mobile, AL, August 15, 2007.
“States set agenda on domestic issues”
[PDF]Richard P. Nathan, Times Union, August 5, 2007.
“Community colleges: key players in New York's economy”
[PDF]Robert B. Ward, Business Council Connect, July-August 2007.
“Block an Investigation? Bar Would Be High, Experts Say”
[PDF]Sam Roberts, The New York Times, July 26, 2007.
“Other end of the tax bargain: Empire Zone companies that failed to create work with levy breaks may be penalized”
[PDF]Eric Anderson, Times Union, July 18, 2007.
“In other matters: grapes, apes and ladybugs... : State legislators deal with a world of weighty issues, and a number of offbeat ones in measures dubbed ‘silly bills,’”
[PDF]Rick Karlin, Times Union, June 18, 2007.
“Just call him an advocate”
[PDF]James M. Odato, Times Union, July 16, 2007.
“State Senate to meet in special session”
[PDF]James T. Madore, Newsday, July 16, 2007.
“Partisanship vs. the Children”
[PDF]Michael Gerson, The Washington Post, July 11, 2007.
“There’s little sympathy in Santa Ana for the bus drivers”
[PDF]Jennifer Delson, Los Angeles Times, July 10, 2007.
“Federal Budget Situation for Charities Improves, Study Finds”
[PDF]Elizabeth Schwinn, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 2, 2007.
“Analysis: Courts only slightly less open to church-state suits after Hein case”
[PDF]Robert Marus, Associated Baptist Press News, June 28, 2007.
“A Prez From N.Y.?: Historical Reasons for Hope”
[PDF]Robert B. Ward, New York Post, June 22, 2007.
“Flush States”
[PDF]The Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2007.
“Study Examines Financial Reliance of Nonprofit Health Care Organizations on Medicaid”
[PDF]AScribe Newswire, June 6, 2007.
“Tax Report: State Tax Collections Start to Taper Off: Revenue Slowdown Since Peak Dims Hopes for Tax Cuts”
[PDF]Tom Herman, The Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2007.
“Housing Slump Pinches States in Pocketbook”
[PDF]Abby Goodnough, The New York Times, April 8, 2007.
“Liberals embrace new federalism”
[PDF]Times Union, January 28, 2007.
“Leaps of Faith”
[PDF]Paul Singer and Brian Friel, The National Journal, January 6, 2007.
