Despite
uncertainties about projected revenue shortfalls and the effects
of the ongoing economic downturn, New York State must continue
to invest in high-tech research and development last year,
Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno said
The
Business Council next March will reprise seminars designed
to help businesses understand property-tax assessments and
how they can be challenged to reduce those taxes.
The
one-day seminars will take place March 5, 6, and 7 in Buffalo,
Waterloo & Saratoga Springs, respectively
ALBANYProjected shortfalls in state tax revenues produced by New
York's recession are already producing calls for higher taxes to boost
state revenues. But that strategy will backfire, and New York's experience
in its last major recession proves it, according to a new report from
The Public Policy Institute
Costs
of health care and health insurance are increasing in double
digits again this year, and that trend is likely to continue,
if not worsen, in the short term, one of the leaders of New
York's health insurance industry has told Business Council
leaders
ALBANYTwo
New York City schools have received the Pathfinder Award from The Business
Council of New York State in honor of improvement in their students' scores
on standardized state tests.
The Pathfinder
Award winners are P.S. I.S. 51 (the Elias Howe School) and P.S. 59 (the Beekman
Hill International School), both of Community School District # 2 in Manhattan
The
Rochester region led the nation in producing patents in the
1990s, according to analysis by the on-line newsletter Demographics
Daily.
A
six-county region that includes Rochester produced 1,233.9
patents per 100,000 residents from 1990-99, well ahead of
Boise, Idaho (1,002
The Rochester
region led the nation in producing patents in the 1990s, according to
analysis by the on-line newsletter Demographics Daily.
A six-county
region that includes Rochester produced 1,233.9 patents per 100,000 residents
from 1990-99, well ahead of Boise, Idaho (1,002
As
Business Council members do "end-of-the-year" reviews of employee
benefits and insurance, they should ask The Business Council
Insurance Fund how The Fund can cut these costs.
"Most
employers review these programs at year-end, so now's the
time for Council members to ask if we can cut their insurance
and benefits costs," said Bob Crandall, director of member
services for The Council
After
The Business Council mounted strong opposition to proposals
to tax Internet-based commerce, Congress voted to reject Internet
taxes and instead extended for two years the current moratorium
on Internet taxation
The
Business Council is seeking status as an "intervenor" in two
more power-plant application cases pending before the state
Siting Board.
The
Council will seek this status in an application by Wawayanda
Energy Center to site a 540-megawatt natural gas-fired plant
in Orange County, and in an application by Astoria Generating
Company to site a 1,842-megawatt natural gas-fired plant in
Queens