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The NYS Budget is NOT the Briefing Book (called “The Story” for years because that’s what it is) BUT the 9+ budget bills, appropriations and enabling language. The devil is in the details and those details are 5+ hours late and counting.

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Recent Blog Posts

Q: When can a College call itself a University?

A: In New York, the answer is different than it is in the rest of the Northeast. We have 52 colleges in name here that meet the nationally-recognized Carnegie Classification of a Master’s College and University by “awarding at least 50 master’s degrees and fewer than 20 research doctorates.” Many of these institutions confer more ...

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Public Libraries: Providing vital access with far less, needing more because much more is being asked.

Much of the focus in the media these days has been directed toward the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare. Signups are occurring online and the system is working well now, but how is the target audience – the historically uninsured population, those that need the relief the most – able to sign up? The ...

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Disaster Relief: Our State cannot afford to shortchange our efforts to recover billions

Superstorm Sandy devastated whole communities within our State, as Hurricanes Irene and Lee had done the year prior. The efforts to account for the losses, enabling us to recover from the damage done and to mitigate against probable future reoccurrences, received important focus from the Governor in his State of the State message yesterday and ...

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