State budget again hostage to politics
Albany awaits a delayed budget as Senate leader Sen. Joseph Bruno accuses the Assembly of unrealistic revenue estimates and a lack of good faith bargaining. He warns of a potential world record late budget, with last year’s delay tying the record on July 13.
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State Senate
Joseph Bruno
Democratic Assembly
Bruno
New York
H. Carl McCall
Oy Assembly Democrats
Pataki
Senate
Steven Greenberg
McCall
Assembly
Assembly Democrats
Greenberg
George Pataki
Howe Moueh
Assembly Republicans
Senate Republicans
Thruway Authority to raise POW MIA flag at rest stops
The New York Thruway Authority will fly the prisoner of war and missing in action flag at 21 rest stops. An event is planned with Governor George Pataki and veterans group officials at a rest stop to ceremonially raise the flag.
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Albany
State Thruway Authority
George Pataki
Thruway Authority
Alexander Gromack
D-Rockland
Thruway
Gromack
Stony Brook grants scholarships to sextuplets family
The parents of Queens sextuplets receive four year scholarships covering eight children at SUNY Stony Brook totaling about 81 thousand dollars. President Shirley Strum Kenny commented that the campus should feel part of the community effort to raise a child.
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New York
Queens
State University of New York At
Stony Brook
Beverly
Rocco Bonielio
Daily News
A .Nd
Thati
Shirley Strum Kenny
Kenny
Disappearance of Patrick McNeill Jr. Ends with Floating Body
Port Chester police report Patrick McNeill Jr., a Fordham University student, vanished February 16 from a Manhattan bar. His body was found at 10:35 a.m. Monday off 69th Street Pier in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn by an Army Corps of Engineers vessel crew. Identification came from fingerprints and medical records, with an autopsy planned. toxicology results will take weeks to clarify cause of death. A large volunteer search and widespread fliers had been organized in the city and Westchester prior to the discovery.
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Fordham University
Patrick McNeill Jr
Brooklyn
Army Corps of Engineers
69Th Street
Bay Ridge
Port Chester
Joseph Krzeminski
McNeill
Manhattan
City
Westchester County
Teenager shot by officers after machete threat in Manhattan
Police Commissioner Safir says a teenager was shot in the back by Officer Anthony Pellegrini after allegedly threatening officers with a machete during a disorderly incident in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Morgenthau vows a full investigation with other details pending.
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Howard Safir
Safir
Manhattan
Robert Morgenthau
Kevin Cedeno
Anthony Pellegrini
Cedeno
Washington Heights
Pellegrini
Mike Garcia
Aight
Clinton names Thurman AIDS policy adviser
President Clinton named Sandra Thurman a policy adviser on AIDS, the third person tapped as an AIDS czar. Thurman led ATIC Atlanta, growing the nonprofit to become the South’s largest AIDS group with about 1,000 volunteers.
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Thurman
Atlanta
Sandra Thurman
Atic Atlanta
South
Roosevelt Room
Bills aim to jail IRS snooping on taxpayer files
Congress moves to criminalize IRS employees accessing taxpayer records, proposing prison and fines. The push follows a federal appeals ruling in a case involving Richard Czubinski, a Ku Klux Klan member, who prosecutors said used an IRS terminal to review records of suspected FBI informants.
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IRS
House
Senate
TRS
Margaret Milner Richardson
Richard W. Czubinski
Czubinski
Ku Klux Klan
United States and Canada set nine year Great Lakes cleanup targets
United States and Canada agreed on milestones to cut persistent toxic substances in the Great Lakes within nine years. Senior officials signed a formal pact detailing voluntary reductions already in place for mercury and high level PCBs in electronics and a 75 percent cut in dioxins and furans from industry such as incinerators.
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United States
Canada
Great Lakes
Linton
Jean Chretien
U.S
Devices reveal concerns over concealed weapon detectors
Police groups welcome new tech to spot concealed weapons while civil libertarians and gun advocates warn it could invade privacy. Instruments may reveal items from guns and explosives to body fat, raising intrusion questions. ACLU attorney Mark Kappelhoff questions intrusiveness. NRA worries about use in 31 concealed-carry states. Officials representing beat officers argue machines boost security.
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Mark Kappelhoff
American Civil Liberties Union
National Rifle Association
Beat
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