Albany Awaits The Day When Money Runs Out
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The state budget – or the lack of it – is as unpleasant a subject as the heat wave, and we had hoped that by now both issues would have been resolved.
Unfortunately, the parties in Albany remain far apart. Today we are 98 days behind the legal deadline, which means the new state fiscal year, 2011, is now more than one-quarter over. During the Pataki era (1995-2006) a couple of budgets were not approved until August. But we were promised that when the governorship and both houses of the legislature come under one party (the Democrats), issues would be settled promptly and amicably.
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