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January 31, 2012 by Gregory Keeler
By MICHAEL GORMLEY, Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – As some local school districts are nearing agreements with their unions to create tougher evaluations for teachers and principals, an interest group said failure to enact the new evaluations will cost schools $1.7 billion statewide. The New York Campaign for Achievement Now on Tuesday released its… [Read more…]
January 31, 2012 by Gregory Keeler
Karen DeWitt, ALBANY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver continues to push for his bill to increase the state’s minimum wage. In an interview with public radio, the Speaker also expressed reservations about Governor Cuomo’s plan to offer an option of 401 k retirement plans for future state workers. Assembly Speaker Silver has made increasing the state’s… [Read more…]
LAPORTE, Pa. (AP) – Federal regulators who approved a 39-mile natural gas pipeline in northern Pennsylvania say they relied on the pipeline company’s assurances that it would minimize the use of eminent domain. Yet a few days after winning approval for its MARC 1 pipeline in the heart of the giant Marcellus Shale gas field,… [Read more…]
January 30, 2012 by Gregory Keeler
Karen DeWitt, ALBANY The Legislative task force on redistricting held its first meeting since new proposed maps were released. Lawmakers heard numerous accusations that the new lines were “gerrymandered” and say the proposed maps are not set in stone. Karen DeWitt reports from Albany: The task force held the first of a round of several… [Read more…]
January 30, 2012 by Gregory Keeler
Karen DeWitt, ALBANY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver introduced his bill to increase the state’s minimum wage from the present $7.25 an hour to $8.50, saying its “absurd” to think that anyone can make a living on the current amount. From Albany, Karen DeWitt reports: Speaker Silver, saying that no one who works hard and plays… [Read more…]
January 30, 2012 by Gregory Keeler
Crystal Sarakas and Matt Richmond, BINGHAMTON Innovation Trail Matt Richmond speaks with WSKG’s Crystal Sarakas Part of “nine seconds,” WSKG’s series on the dropout crisis. Originally broadcast Tuesday, November 1, 2011. PHOTO: SXC.HU
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) – A heavily traveled road in an Adirondack tourist town is getting a new type of road pavement designed to keep pollutants from flowing into water supplies. Warren County and state transportation officials are working on a $6 million project to install porous asphalt on Beach Road in the village of… [Read more…]
Daniel Robison, BUFFALO A Buffalo-based company is poised to research threats posed by biological weapons and medication-resistant infections on behalf of the federal government. The contract could be worth nearly $70 million dollars. The job of the Department of Health and Human Services is to fill the gaps in the government’s response to possible medical… [Read more…]
January 27, 2012 by Gregory Keeler
By MICHAEL GORMLEY Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday he will veto the new legislative district maps proposed by the state Senate and Assembly majorities. That throws the process into likely negotiations to revise what Cuomo and good-government groups called partisan efforts to solidify the majorities’ power. “The maps are… [Read more…]
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February 1, 2012 by WSKG News
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