The Week Ahead
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 4:44AM The Week Ahead:
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The New York State Legislature is not in session at this time. The Joint Hearing calendar can be found at: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=hear. The Senate calendar can be found at: http://www.nysenate.gov/calendar.
Monday, July 27
Governor David A. Paterson is in Nassau County and NYC today.
11 AM The governor delivers remarks at the Lighthouse Long Island Press Conference at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale.
4 PM The governor will host the NYC Financial Control Board Meeting in the Executive Chamber Press Room, 38th Floor, 633 3rd Avenue, NYC.
10:30 AM CSEA will hold a news conference to discuss an opportunity for reporters and the public to sit in on a Public Employment Relations Board hearing on the Improper Practice charges filed by CSEA against Monroe County at the Rochester Satellite Office, 3495 Winton Place, Building E, Suite 3, in Rochester.
12 PM NYC Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, CUNY and Hospital Officials will greet the first round of nursing students who are part of a new nursing partnership with the University and the Council in the Bellevue Hospital Center Saul Faber Auditorium, 462 First Ave., NYC.
4-6 PM NYS’s Great Lakes Basin Advisory Council will hold a public input session on the “Draft Report on Recommendations for Implementing the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact” at the Great Lakes Center, Teaching Pavilion, Buffalo.
6:30 PM A “Project Sunlight Presentation” by the NYS Attorney General’s office will be held at Sharon Springs Public Library, Main Street, Sharon Springs.
6:30 PM A “Project Sunlight Presentation” co-sponsored by the NYS Attorney General’s office and the Newport Free Library will be held at the Newport Free Library, 7390 South Main Street, Newport.
Tuesday, July 28
10:30 AM NYS Office of General Services will hold a public auction of 2.9 acres of land in the Town of Johnstown at the Fulton County Office Building, Meeting Room # 1, 223 West Main Street, Johnstown.
10:30 AM A “Smart Seniors Seminar” presented by Kristin-Liliana Manzur and co-sponsored by NYC Council Member Kenneth Mitchell will be held at the West Brighton Senior Center, 230 Broadway, Staten Island.
4-6 PM NYS’s Great Lakes Basin Advisory Council will hold a public input session on the “Draft Report on Recommendations for Implementing the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact” at RIT, Building #76 (Carlson Center for Imaging Science), Carlson Auditorium, Rochester.
6 PM A “Home Improvement Contractor Presentation” by Assist. Attorney General in Charge Debra Martin and co-sponsored by Mayor Shawn Hogan at the City Hall, Counsel Chambers, 82 Main Street, Hornell.
Wednesday, July 29
7 PM Investigator Christopher Holland and the state Attorney General’s office present “Are Your Children Safe from Internet Dangers?” at the Phelps Community Center, 8 Banta Street #100, Phelps.
Thursday, July 30
12 PM The state Attorney General’s office and Assembly Member Keith L.T. Wright will hold a Community Forum about health care, consumer fraud and civil and labor rights at Harlem Hospital, 506 Lenox Avenue, New York.
8-10 PM Public and private sectors propel development programs at the Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt AVe, NYC.
Friday, July 31
2:15 PM SUNY Plattsburgh will hold its Hudson Hall Renovation Project ground-breaking ceremony near the Hawkins hall pond.
Saturday, August 1
11 AM-12 PM There will be a deactivation of the New York Army National Guard’s 56th Personal Service Battalion, at the Division of Military and Naval Affairs Headquarters, 330 Old Niskayuna Road, Latham.
From the Blogs:
The Daily Politics:
-Elizabeth Benjamin writes NYC public advocate candidate Bill de Blasio may benefit from all of the extra attention he’s getting from his “petition debacle”… as long as he gets on the ballot.
-Sen. Eric Adams and Sen. Democratic conference leader John Sampson endorse Councilman David Yassky for City comptroller.
PlanetAlbany:
-Bob Conner writes Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is “taking more liberal positions than might have been expected” on health care and her “switching and adopting whatever positions are convenient… plays into the stereotype of unprincipled, pandering politicians.”
Hudson Views:
-Larry Hirsch hopes “the investigation into Senator Espada’s legal issues will be as thorough as that for Miguel Martinez and the others under investigation in the City Council.”
Room Eight:
-Larry Littlefield writes those who control our institutions will “keep grabbing and grabbing until there is nothing left to take, as if they lacked the capacity to do otherwise.”
NY Fiscal Watch:
-E.J. McMahon shares a NYS chart of “actual All Funds disbursements since 1998-99, with projected figures through 2012-13” providing “opening context” for the release of NYS’s 2009-10 financial plan first quarter update later this week.
Runnin’ Scared:
-Wayne Barrett specutlates Al Sharpton was “doing his buddy Charlie (King) a big favor” when he was “denouncing Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney’s use of the n-word.”
Opinion:
-New York Daily News calls on state Court of Appeals to decide in favor Gov. Paterson’s ability to appoint a lieutenant governor.
-Kingston Daily Freeman writes, “In another time and another place — where the Senate conducted itself in orderly and responsible fashion, led by leaders of both parties interested in the state, not power — the absence of a lieutenant governor might not be noteworthy.”
-Albany Times Union writes research shows driving while texting or talking on cell phones “just might be as dangerous as driving while drunk” and laws should change accordingly.
-New York Post calls a state appellate court ruling allowing the Cayuga Indian tribe to claim two stores located on nonreservation land count as a “qualified reservation” for taxing purposes “absurd.”
-Milton Hoffman, a retired senior editor of The Journal News, suggests New York “should look again at the 1995 report of the Temporary State Commission on Constitutional Revision, and its recommendation for action committees” if legislators “fail to clean up the legislative gridlock in New York state.”
-John J. Faso, former Republican leader of the New York State Assembly, thinks “a dramatic change of governance” is needed in New York because “few people will move to or stay in a state with skyrocketing taxes, neglected infrastructure, and a profligate and unresponsive legislature.”
-Raymond W. Kelly, commissioner of the NYC Police Department, blames recent “reforms” in Albany and “a terribly misguided ruling by the state’s highest court” for making police work more difficult.
-James M. Odato, of the Albany Times Union, writes about the state paying $330 million to the federal governtment over Medicaid fraud while having “fiscal woes” and Sen. Pedro Espada’s expanding office space.
-Andrew Malekoff, executive director of the North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center in Roslyn Heights, thinks a mental-health clinic “reform” plan, assuring continued access to care only to children and families with Medicaid fee-for-service insurance coverage, “will leave a significant number of children and adults in the lurch.”
-Fredric U. Dicker writes, “Former MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow, a major Republican fund-raiser and activist, is endorsing Democratic Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for governor, a move certain to send shock waves through GOP circles.”
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Reader Comments (1)
I attended the event with Kristin-Liliana Manzur and found it helpful. Ms. Manzur is approachable and informative. Her personality is unlike most other politicians I have met.