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Good morning! It s chilly with a chance of snow in Albany. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has left the Capitol for New York City, where he ll present sonoma mission inn and spa his agenda at Lehman College in the Bronx. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman remains in Buffalo. Comptroller sonoma mission inn and spa Tom DiNapoli is in Yonkers, sonoma mission inn and spa where he ll release a profile of that fiscally stressed city. At 11, Capital Region legislators will call for more school funding during a capitol press conference. And at 11:15, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer sonoma mission inn and spa will be at St. Peter s Hospital in Albany. Here are this morning s headlines
Apply to be an Empire State Fellow Chris Christie, asked about comparing himself to Cuomo, notes they both have Sicilian mothers Vito Lopez has pneumonia and read the entire report on the state s Common Retirement Fund.
The more interesting question about the competitive school grants is why just a handful of school districts bothered to apply. And not even all of those few met the qualification of the program with their proposals.
the average nationally was a 19.8% increase in wages over the last seven years. For State employees it was 13.6%, WELL below the national average. On top of which were a 20% reduction in state employment, massive increases in health care costs and reductions in retirement benefits. The public employee has been effectively sonoma mission inn and spa raped over the last 3 years in particular. But even when combining the last contract with this one the public employee has taken a proverbial Crying Game-like beating.
This is unfortunately no different sonoma mission inn and spa than children in school who do not follow the instructions from their teacher for an assignment, turn in the assignment on their (students) terms, get a bad grade, and then get their parents to beat on the teacher for being unfair.
@ J Spanard: There are a few reason most school district don t submit applications for the competitive grants. The majority of districts don t have grant writers on staff, so it falls to some other administrator to do all the necessary research to get the application just right to meet the qualifications. As you can see, many didn t succeed. More important, is that much of the funding being offered is for a limited time. For example, they have offered a significant amount of money for school districts willing to increase the school sonoma mission inn and spa day and year. The problem is that those increases will cause substantial re-occurring costs for salaries, utilities, etc. However, the grant will only pay enough to cover basically the first year. No district in their right mind will take on that cost without a promise of long term funding.
Another solution is to tax Wall St transactions, known as a Tobin tax, as advocated not long ago in the TU by Elliot Spitzer. This will curb the commodity speculation that gecannonphd pointed out as a cause of the price rise.
I m sure folks in Chicago and Boston (maybe even Newark) would cheer a Tobin tax in NYS. And do you really think that revenues from such a tax would be used solely on your priorities? You aren t that naive are you?
Regarding not being able to outsource the production of our own energy. Who exactly do you think is the world leader in solar panels? And also who is the leading exporter (by far) of the rare earth materials used to make those stupid giant fans? Hint, it ain t us.
Finally, corporations are already suckling off the misguided tax incentives and other investments in green energy projects. What makes you think that if we were to move entirely away from fossil fuels that there would be no evil corporations profiting under the new paradigm? Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
And what our revenues are used for, is a function of who we have representing us. With Bush the Repubs in control, we had endless war, but we can also spend revenue on clean energy if we have progressives in office.
We can build solar panels sonoma mission inn and spa windmills right here. And the Capital costs are only part of the picture. Clean Energy produced here will mean the installation maintenance that have to be done here, meaning our energy money will stay right here, creating jobs right here.
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