New York on Monday June 29, 2009

NY: Democratic lock seen on 2013 Albany Senate
By Sam Roberts, The New York Times
Albany gridlock got you down? Well, worry no longer, the end is in sight — the State Senate should be back in business by 2013. An analysis of population shifts since this decade began suggests that Democrats are poised to gain as many as six seats when legislative districts are reapportioned after the 2010 census.
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NY: Paterson in plea to Dems
By Brendan Scott, New York Post
Gov. Paterson made an unusual personal visit to a closed-door gathering of Senate Democrats last night in a dramatic effort to break the stalemate that has paralyzed Albany for the last three weeks.
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Tracking the recession: Budget deadline looms
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
Unlike the federal government, states have to balance their budgets. But several states still have not completed spending plans for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
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NY: Gay marriage lost in shuffle of divided Senate
By Jeremy W. Peters, The New York Times
When Gov. David A. Paterson accepted an invitation to be a grand marshal in New York City's gay pride parade this year, he had high expectations that he would march down Fifth Avenue as the first governor in state history to have signed a law allowing gay couples to marry.
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NY: Albany festers, and voters don't clean house
By Danny Hakim, The New York Times
Senator John J. Bonacic has been a New York state legislator for nearly 20 years. For him, competition is not a problem. Mr. Bonacic, a Republican from the Hudson Valley, received 66,736 votes and faced no opposition as he cruised to a sixth Senate term last year.
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NY: Albany standoff hits governor
By Suzanne Sataline, The Wall Street Journal
Through three weeks of stalemate in the New York State Senate, Gov. David Paterson has pleaded with and threatened senators to force them to return to work -- so far to no avail. In the face of his apparent ineffectiveness, the senators' antics are starting to hurt him as much as the legislature.
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NY: State Senate fails to break gridlock
By Tom Precious, The Buffalo News
Negotiations collapsed again Sunday night, prolonging the three-week partisan leadership battle that has ground the 62-member State Senate to a halt with just 48 hours to go before a number of important laws will expire without the chamber's action.
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NY: Pols keep squabbling as clock ticks down on mayoral control
By Meredith Kolodner, Glenn Blain and Erin Einhorn , Daily News (New York)
The mayor, the governor, two borough presidents and union leaders all warned yesterday that "chaos" is coming to the public schools if the deadlocked state Senate doesn't extend mayoral control of city schools.
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NY: NY Senate power talks resume
By Michael Gormley, The Associated Press, Newsday
A three-week dispute over control of New York's Senate is getting more frantic behind the scenes, leading to a change in negotiators for the Democratic conference and new efforts to split the Republican-dominated coalition.
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NY: Paterson -- Albany mess could mean LI property tax boost David Paterson
By Patrick Whittle and James T. Madore, Newsday
Gov. David A. Paterson Sunday called on state senators to put an end to political chaos in Albany, warning in a trip to Long Island that property taxes could rise and services cut without a quick resolution.
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NY: State to pay up to $10,000 for eggs used in research
By Henry L. Davis, The Buffalo News
As far as medical researchers know, no state ever has allowed taxpayer funds to pay women for donating their eggs for embryonic stem cell research.
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NY: Paterson ratchets up efforts to get Senate to break stalemate
By Jeremy W. Peters and Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times
As Republicans and Democrats in the State Senate failed again on Friday to reach an agreement to divide power, Gov. David A. Paterson continued to test the limits of his constitutional authority to compel both sides to compromise.
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NY: 40 yrs. after Stonewall, Gay Pride Parade calls for wed rights
By Kenneth Porpora, Michael Roberts and Samuel Goldsmith, Daily News (New York)
A festive sea of revelers marked the 40th anniversary of the era-changing Stonewall uprising during Sunday's Gay Pride Parade even as they looked ahead toward another struggle - the fight for gay marriage.
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NY: Gov aide meets with top GOP mudslinger
By Fredric U. Dicker, Columnist, New York Post
Gov. Paterson's top political adviser has met secretly with longtime Republican dirty trickster Roger Stone, who took credit for helping sink the governor's predecessor, Eliot Spitzer, The Post has learned.
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NY: Espada puts lawyer-lobbyist at center of talks on Senate power struggle
By Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times
For the last week, two teams of lawyers and aides, one representing Senate Democrats and one representing the Republicans, have been meeting in the Capitol to negotiate over how the two sides might share power.
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NY: State official under Pataki pleads guilty
By The Associated Press, The New York Times
Antonia C. Novello, the former United States surgeon general, pleaded guilty on Friday to a felony charge as part of a plea deal, admitting that she forced state employees to handle personal chores when she was the health commissioner of New York State.
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NY: Governor David Paterson poised to benefit from chaos in state Senate
By Staff Writers, Daily News (New York)
The state Senate fiasco might just be the best thing that's happened to Gov. Paterson since Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal.
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US: National sex offender registry delayed a year
By The Associated Press, Argus Leader (Sioux Falls)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has given states and American Indian tribes another year to feed a national Internet database set up to protect children by showing where possible predators live and work.
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