Governor Pataki has included plenty of social service cuts in his proposed budget, but an increase to an education program has Democrats just as miffed.
They haven’t announced any specific plans yet, but a wide-ranging group meeting upstate has found more common ground on brownfields than most thought possible.
If Senator Al D’Amato loses the election in September, the new chair of the banking committee will be Phil Gramm, no friend of the Community Reinvestment Act.
Giving students the right to choose their high school is a goal shared by education reformers around the country. New York is already there. But without guidance or real information,…
The Senate banking committee just okayed a massive overhaul of the country’s financial services laws, and comminity advocates are worried it will scuttle existing fair lending rules.