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State of the State	Governor Spitzer's 2007 State of the State Address State of the State PDF Download
Economy of New York State	Health Care Costs and Financing http://www.ahrq.gov/research/jan06/0106RA18.htm 2006 Fiscal Reform for New York State Report http://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/budget/fiscalreform.pdf#search=%222006%20New%20York%20State%20Economic%20and%20Revenue%20Review%20%22 The Regional Economy, an analysis by the Federal Reserve of New York http://www.ny.frb.org/research/regional_economy/ August 2006 Empire State Manufacturing Survey http://www.ny.frb.org/research/regional_economy/mfg_survey/8_2006.pdf#search=%222005%20Empire%20State%20Manufacturing%20Survey%20%22 USDA Economics and Statistical System http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/ New York State Data at a Glance, Economic Policy Institute http://www.epinet.org (Search on "New York State") Comptroller's Report on the Financial Condition of NYS 2006 http://www.osc.state.ny.us/finance/finreports/fcr05.pdf#search=%22Comptroller's%20Report%20on%20the%20Financial%20Condition%20of%20NYS%202006%22 New York's Debt; FAQ's http://osc.state.ny.us/press/debtfaq.htm The Political Economy of Upstate New York http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:vKrJuue55NkJ:www.rockinst.org/nysner/data/shaffer_upstate_pol_econ091506.ppt+Upstate+Taxpayers+Pay+Extra+in+Taxes&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=8
Budget	Analysis of the Mayor’s Executive Budget for 2007 New York City Independent Budget Office http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/2425may2006.pdf Mayor Bloomberg Presents $52.2 Billion FY 2007 Preliminary Budget http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2006a%2Fpr033-06.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1 Preliminary Review of of the FY 2005-06 Executive Budget Recommendation http://house.michigan.gov/hfa/PDFs/prelim05.pdf#search=%22Staff%20Analysis%20of%20FY%202005-06%20Executive%20Budget%22 Governor Pataki Introduces 2006-07 Executive Budget http://www.ny.gov/governor/press/06/0117061.html 2006-07 Executive Budget Overview http://publications.budget.state.ny.us/fy0607littlebook/index.html New York State Education Department 2006-2007 Budget Proposal http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=New+York+State+Education+Department+2006-2007+Budget+Proposal 2006-2007 Budget Analysis, Office of the State Comptroller http://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/budget/2006/enactedbudget06_07.pdf#search=%22the%20comptroller's%202006-07%20budget%20analysis%22
Banks & Banking	FDIC NYS Profile - Fall 2006 http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/stateprofile/NewYork/NY/NY.xml.html
Census Data	2007 Schedule of new Estimates http://www.census.gov/popest/topics/ U.S. Census Bureau Data re: New York State http://www.census.gov/datamap/www/36.html Monthly Wholesale Trade http://www.census.gov/mwts/www/mwts.html
Economic Development	Silicon Alley by Steven Malagna http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_silicon_alley.htm New York State Senate NextGen Task Force http://www.senate.state.ny.us/sws/NexGenysisFull.pdf#search=%22New%20York%20State%20Senate%20NextGen%20Task%20Force%22 Transforming the Urban Landscape: Brownfield Redevelopment and the Future of New York (September 2003) http://www.newdemocracyproject.com/publications/brownfields_report/index.cfm International SEMATECH NORTH Signed and Launched $400 million, 300 Millimeter Wafer Initiative Moving Forward on Schedule http://www.gorr.state.ny.us/gorr/01_28_03_sematech.htm GEN*NY*SYS Generating Employment through New York Science, NYS Senate Report http://204.168.97.3/DOCS/biotec00.pdf
Education	CUNY's Virtuous Circle by Nicole Gelinas http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_sndgs06.html Center for Governmental Research Inc.: Early Childhood Education http://www.cgr.org/Articles/?id=148 2003-04 School Aid Budgets http://www.budget.state.ny.us/localities/schoolaid/schoolaid.html Central New York School Boards Association http://www.cnysba.org/ NYC Center Report: Immigrant Parents Lack Equal Access http://www.newschool.edu/milano/nycaffairs/ Teacher Performance Incentives and Student Outcomes, Staff Working Paper, The W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/00-65.pdf
Elections	Election Results http://www.elections.state.ny.us/portal/page?_pageid=35,1,35_8301:35_8333&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
Energy	Attorney General's Action Plan for a Balanced Electric Power Policy in New York State http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/reports/power_policy.pdf
Environment	Legislative Commision on Rural Resources Rural Futures Newsletter - May/June http://www.senate.state.ny.us/SenateReports.nsf/ Keeping New York's Waters Pure Legislative Commision on Rural Resources Spring 2003 http://www.senate.state.ny.us/SenateReports.nsf/ USEPA Air Quality Index (AQI) - AIRNow http://www.epa.gov/airnow/ New York State Green Building Initiative http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/ppu/grnbldg/index.html Partnering for a Better New York http://www.state.ny.us/ltgovdoc/cover.html Sprawl around us ... can we take control? http://www.th-record.com/archive/2001/01/14/bgspraw0.htm Want to learn more about sprawl? http://www.th-record.com/archive/2001/01/15/bgresour.htm EPA & Army Corps reaction to Supreme Court decision on wetlands http://www.aswm.org/fwp/swancc/legal.pdf The Hudson River: A wonderful resource for both nature and people http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/hudson/index.html
Health, Hospitals & HMOs	More Money to Shrink Health Care? by Steven Malanga http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_sndgs03.html The Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century http://www.nyhealthcarecommission.com The Final Report of The Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century http://www.nyhealthcarecommission.com/final_report.htm "Medicaid, Inc." A Report by the Rochester Business Alliance and Rump Group http://www.rochesterbusinessalliance.com/scriptcontent/va_custom/Medicaid/RBA_RumpReportFINAL.pdf Hevesi Raises Concerns about Financing for Health Care Programs, Recommends Moving All HCRA Spending to State Budget in 2005 - October 2004 http://www.osc.state.ny.us/press/releases/oct04/102104.htm The Health Insurance Market In New York State -- Strategies for Affordable Coverage New York State Senate Insurance Committee - February 2004 http://www.senate.state.ny.us/SenateReports.nsf/ Senate Proposes Historic Takeover Of Local Medicaid Costs NYS Senate Majority - December 2003 http://www.senate.state.ny.us/SenateReports.nsf/ Pace Online Health Law Library New York State Health Law http://csmail.law.pace.edu/lawlib/Healthlaw/nys.htm Excellus BlueCross BlueShield releases health policy report on physician supply in Upstate New York http://www.excellusbcbs.com/hpreports.htm Assembly Unveils HMO Reform Initiatives http://assembly.state.ny.us/Press/2000207/ NCQA Accreditation of HMOs in New York State http://www.ncqa.org/Programs/accreditation/accreditation.htm Doctors in Five Counties See Decline in Health Care Quality, report from The Commonwealth Fund http://www.cmwf.org/publist/quarterly/fal00qrt.asp?link=6 Universal Coverage for the Elderly Doctors Working Well, but Many Fear for the Future, report from The Commonwealth Fund http://www.cmwf.org/publist/quarterly/sum00qrt.asp?link=6 At the Brink: How Harvard Pilgrim Got in Trouble A Report from the Center for Studying Health System Change http://www.hschange.com/CONTENT/284/ 44% of Health Care Cost Increase Attributable to Pharmaceutical Spending A Report from the Center for Studying Health System Change http://www.hschange.com/CONTENT/279/ Growing Physician Access Problems Complicate Medicare Payment Debate http://www.hschange.com/CONTENT/466/ Health Insurance Trends Point to an Increase in Uninsured Children in New York and New Jersey a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/curr_iss/ci6-2.html Do HMOs Make A Difference? Comparing Access, Service Use and Satisfaction Between Consumers in HMOs and Non-HMOs, A report from the Center for Studying Health System Change http://www.hschange.org/CONTENT/54/ Child Health Plus enrollment by county http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/chplus/cplus-1.htm 2004 New York Consumer Guide to HMOs http://www.ins.state.ny.us/acrobat/hmofinal.pdf Physician Discipline in NYS: Index to Disciplinary Actions, New York State Dept. of Health http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/opmc/search/index.htm
Insurance Issues	"Medicaid, Inc." A Report by the Rochester Business Alliance and Rump Group http://www.rochesterbusinessalliance.com/scriptcontent/va_custom/Medicaid/RBA_RumpReportFINAL.pdf Superintendent Levin Announces Healthy NY Start Increased Access to Health Care Coverage for New York's Small Businesses and Working Families http://www.ins.state.ny.us/p0012281.htm Directory of Licensed Insurance Companies http://www.ins.state.ny.us/tocol4.htm Most Uninsured Children Are in Families Served by Government Programs, Report from The Urban Institute http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/series_b/b4/anf_b4.html
Labor Statistics	Catalogue of Workforce Preparation Programs by the New York State Assembly Legislative Committee on Skills Development and Career Education http://assembly.state.ny.us/Reports/Workforce/2000/1999catalog.pdf Alternative Measures of State UI Systems, an Upjohn Institute Staff Working Paper 00-62 http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/0062.html Unemployment Compensation and Older Workers, an Upjohn Institute Staff Working Paper 00-61 http://www.upjohninst.org/Publications/wp/0061.html Economic Policy Institute Report: Unemployment and job-creation trends http://www.epinet.org/ Economic Policy Institute Report: Solid year ends with signs of slowing growth http://www.epinet.org/
Miscellaneous	Child Pornography, Prostitution And Predators: Has The Internet Placed Our Children At Risk? http://www.senate.state.ny.us/SenateReports.nsf/ Emergency Preparedness Interim Report http://www.senate.state.ny.us/SenateReports.nsf/ Report from the New York State Senate Majority Task Force on Invasion of Privacy http://www.senate.state.ny.us/SenateReports.nsf/
Legal Issues
Lobbyists	Lobbyists and Corporations Registered to Lobby in New York State http://www.nylobby.state.ny.us/lobby_data.html
Local Government	Gotham's Telltale Reading Tests by Sol Stern http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_sndgs01.html Eliot Spitzer's CFE Problem by Sol Stern http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_sndgs07.html" NYS Office of the Comptroller October 19, 2004 Memo to Local Government Officials - Accounting for Pension Payments Indigent Legal Services Fund Projected Distribution for Counties Accounting Release - Reporting of Tobacco Asset Securitization Corporations Accounting Release - Homeland Security Aid Accounting Release - New York State Rail Infrastructure Investment Act of 2002 Fall 2004 Issue of the "Local Government Connection" 2004 Annual Report on Local Governments Changes in Vehicle & Traffic Fine Revenues Accounting Release - Modification of NYS Retirement Systems' Annual Payment Date and Reserve Provision for Pension Contributions Smart Growth in New York State: A Discussion Paper 2003 Legislative Review Audits of Local Governments Listing of NY Counties with Constituent Cities, Towns and Villages Directory of Local Government Services and Economic Development Contacts Catalog of State and Federal Programs Aiding New York's Local Governments by the New York State Assembly Legistative Commission on State-Local Relations http://assembly.state.ny.us/Reports/Local/1999/statefed.pdf Competitive Regionalism: Beyond Individual Competition, a Research Report of the Economic Development Administration, U.S. Dept. of Commerce http://www.doc.gov/eda/pdf/mccarthy.pdf
Social Services	Recommendations on the Reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program by the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy http://www.scaany.org/tanfreauth_rec.pdf The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government Report: Changes in State Spending on Social Services Since the Implementation of Welfare Reform http://www.rockinst.org/publications/fiscal_studies/FiscalEffects.PDF AFDC Time Trends Fiscal Years 1987-96 http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/opre/timetren/index.htm Child Support Collections, Administration for Children and Families, US Dept. of Health & Human Services http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/stats/97coll.htm State spending under the child care block grant, US Dept. of Health & Human Services http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/press/1998/cc97fund.htm TANF 4th Quarter, FY 1998, State Maintenance of Effort (MOE) Analysis Through 4th Qtr. FY 1998, Administration for Children and Families, US Dept. of Health & Human Services http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ofs/data/archives/q4tnfd.htm Are America's Families Better Off Today Than in 1997?, Report from The Urban Institute http://newfederalism.urban.org/nsaf/snapshots_index.html Homelessness: Programs and the People They Serve http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/homelessness.pdf
Transportation Issues	New York State Assembly report on New York City Transit Needs: A Report on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 2000-04 Capital Budget Program http://assembly.state.ny.us/Reports/200002nyctransit.pdf New York State High Priority Projects, The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, TEA-21, http://www.dot.state.ny.us/progs/tea21/hppnav.html
Voting Technology	Voting and Democracy: The Challenges Ahead - by Don Hazen http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16508 A Voting and Democracy Primer - by Don Hazen http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16472 Beyond voting machines: HAVA and real election reform - by Miles Rapoport http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16490 Computer voting is open to easy fraud, experts say - by John Schwartz http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/technology/24VOTE.html The theft of your vote is just a chip away - by Thom Hartmann http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16474 The voting rights struggle of our time - by Kim Alexander http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16476 Jim Crow revived in cyberspace - by Greg Palast and Martin Luther King III http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15890 Ballots can keep bullets from flying - by John Moyers and Elizabeth Ready http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/7605