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September 1, 2010
NYSAC
NYSAC’s Long-Term Care Insurance Benefit Primer
In New York State, each county is struggling with Medicaid expenditures and questioning how they can fulfill their obligations to their residents, provide appropriate long-term care services, yet lower budgetary requirements.
STATEWIDE
Tribes win cigarette tax delay
Just as state tax agents were preparing to act on the Legislature's and Gov. David Paterson 's decision to collect taxes from Native American cigarette merchants, a federal court judge in Buffalo on Tuesday gave a reprieve to at least two Indian nations.
NYC
Governor signs domestic worker rights bill
New York Gov. David Paterson has signed into law the nation's first extensive domestic workers' rights measure, saying it corrects historic injustices.
HUDSON VALLEY
Ulster County official says $32 million in trash payments weren't properly monitored
Ulster County has in the past 10 years paid out $32 million in fees to the county's Resource Recovery Agency without paying adequate attention to how it was spent, according to Comptroller Elliott Auerbach.
Steinhaus vetoes early retirement incentive program
Dutchess County Executive William Steinhaus vetoed the early retirement incentive program approved recently by the county legislature.
Mid-Hudson farms get ready for early apple harvest
This year's local apple crop is ripening from 10 days to two weeks early. That means the mid-Hudson harvest is already well on its way and homegrown apples are available in many retail locations.
CAPITAL REGION
Saratoga P.L.A.N. gets land gift, plans public trails
The county’s not-for-profit land trust, Saratoga Preserving Land and Nature (P.L.A.N.) has accepted a gift of a 614-acre property in the town of Providence that it plans to use for public trails and nature recreation.
NORTH COUNTRY
County looking to cut $5m from next year's budget
St. Lawrence County officials plan to cut more than $5 million in spending next year and reduce current-year spending by more than $1 million to help close an expected multimillion-dollar budget deficit in 2011.
SOUTHERN TIER
A done deal: EPA fracking forum coming to Binghamton
Broome County and City of Binghamton officials announced Tuesday an agreement to bring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's final public meeting on its multi-million-dollar hydraulic fracturing study to The Forum on Sept. 13 and 15.
Official: Retirements hit Delaware budget hard
The Delaware County Board of Supervisors Budget Oversight Committee has begun work on the county's 2011 budget, but it is still too early to have any hard numbers available, budget Director Bob Homovich said Monday.
MOHAWK VALLEY
Village of Herkimer OKs counteroffer on county jail
Having previously rejected an offer from the Herkimer County Legislature to help pay for wastewater treatment plant upgrades in exchange for sewer service for a proposed jail, the village Board of Trustees Monday night reached agreement on a counteroffer.
WESTERN NEW YORK
Power Authority profits to stay in WNY
Legislation signed Tuesday by Gov. David Paterson will ensure between $25 million and $40 million in New York Power Authority profits will be reinvested into Western New York.
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