New York on Wednesday July 01, 2009

NY: Blame panic in G.O.P. for standoff in Albany
By Danny Hakim, The New York Times
Why can't New York's feuding senators act like grown-ups? Nearly a month into the Senate's bitter leadership struggle, there are few signs that the Republican and Democratic voting blocs, deadlocked in a 31-to-31 tie, are close to a deal to get back to work.
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NY: State Senate begins passing bills
By James T. Madore, Newsday
A Republican senator's walk through the back of the Senate chamber Tuesday as 31 Democrats were convening a regular session was used by them to establish a quorum and begin passing bills.
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Financial crisis torments states
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
(Updated 11:29 a.m. EDT, July 1, 2009)

California may begin issuing IOUs this week because of the state’s unresolved budget crisis. But government disruptions were averted at least temporarily in five other states that missed a July 1 deadline for closing billion-dollar budget gaps.
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NY: Glimpsing a G.O.P. passer-by, Senate Democrats grab the gavel
By Nicholas Confessore and Jeremy W. Peters, The New York Times
The latest attempt to break the State Senate's three-week-old stalemate began with a quest for caffeine.
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NY: State's top court will hear appeal against Atlantic Yards
By Charles V. Bagli, The New York Times
New York's highest court has agreed to hear a case challenging the state's use of eminent domain on behalf of the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn.
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NY: Merkin reaches accord with Cuomo on art sale
By Zachary Kouwe, The New York Times
J. Ezra Merkin, the disgraced financier who lost more than $2.4 billion of his clients' money in Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme, agreed on Tuesday to sell his art collection for $310 million in a deal that could pave the way for a settlement with the New York attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo.
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NY: New York Senate Democrats claim quorum, start passing bills
By The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal
ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York Senate Democrats have begun voting on a host of bills and declaring them passed after claiming that a Republican lawmaker walking through the chamber gave them the required quorum.
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NY: Senate goes 0 for 3
By Rick Karlin and Irene Jay Liu, Times Union (Albany)
Just when it seemed as if the three-week-old battle for control of the state Senate was turning into a cold war, Tuesday brought a new escalation -- replete with fresh legal threats, a salvo of dueling affidavits and a senator who might have picked the wrong moment to get a cup of coffee.
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NY: Dems grasp at quorum loophole
By Joseph Spector, The Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester)
Senate Democrats contended they found a way Tuesday to vote on bills: A Republican senator unknowingly gave them a quorum when he walked through the chamber to get a cup of coffee as Democrats were convening their own session.
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NY: NY Senate Dems claim quorum, start passing bills
By Michael Virtanen, The Associated Press, Newsday
Democrats claimed control of the split New York Senate on Tuesday, declaring a quorum after a Republican took a short cut through the chamber because an exterior parlor had been blocked by Democrats for a press conference they never held.
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NY: Board -- Gay Natl. Guard Lt. should be discharged
By The Associated Press, Newsday
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A military administrative board is recommending that a gay New York National Guard officer should be discharged for violating the military's 'don't ask-don't tell' policy against homosexual conduct. Lt. Dan Choi is the first New York National Guard member discharged for violating the military's policy against homosexual conduct.
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NY: Big Apple at core of state's population rise
By Deepti Hajela, The Associated Press, Times Union (Albany)
The Big Apple is still the country's biggest draw. A yearly estimate from the U.S. Census says New York City grew by more than 53,000 residents for the 12-month period ending July 2008, the biggest numerical increase of any city in the country.
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NY: Hospital infection numbers go public
By Cathleen F. Crowley and Kyla Calvert, Times Union (Albany)
Capital Region hospitals reported that 200 patients picked up infections in their hospitals in 2008, according to the state's Hospital-Acquired Infection Report released Tuesday by the state Department of Health.
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NY: Senate Democrats shoot down mayoral control of schools, city sales tax hike
By Kenneth Lovett and Glenn Blain, Daily News (New York)
State senators Tuesday night defied Gov. Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg by failing to extend mayoral control over the schools and rejecting the city's sales tax plan.
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NY: Bd. of Ed. is rising from dead
By Fredric U. Dicker and Brendan Scott, New York Post
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday prepared to reconvene the old city Board of Education after the law that gives him control of the schools expired at 12:01 a.m. today.
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US: Colorado the least obese state
By Lauren Neergaard, The Associated Press, The Denver Post
WASHINGTON—Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.
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WI: Milwaukee edges up in population
By Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
When it comes to demographics, a small number can be a very big deal.
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