POWERING UP NEW YORK'S ECONOMY
A survey of New York employers on the importance of energy costs and supplies to our economic future.
The Business Council, New York's largest broad-based business group, is surveying New York State employers, chambers and business associations, and economic development specialists on how energy markets, supplies, and prices affect a company's prosperity and the state's economy
The nation's health-care
system should identify specific quality measures, release them publicly,
and use them to measurably improve quality of care, a leading expert on
health-care quality has told The Council's Health Committee.
Armed with these data, consumers
can play a meaningful role in helping reshape the delivery, quality, and
cost of health care, Bruce Boissonnault, executive director of the Niagara
Health Quality Coalition (NHQC), said at the Health Committee's May 22 meeting
The Assembly majority has
proposed reregulating energy markets in New York State.
At a press conference today,
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver discussed the New York State Transitional
Energy Plan (NYSTEP), an Assembly plan which Speaker Silver said is designed
to provide rate relief, consumer protection, and an energy supply that secures
economic growth during New York's transition to competitive markets
The Business Council will
survey member businesses on issues related to the cost, supply, and economic
importance of energy in New York State.
The survey will be sent to
businesses that are Council members later this month. Responses will be
tablulated in late June, with a release of the results tentatively scheduled
for early July
New York
State has lost ground to some key competitors in the competition for
federal research dollars and in the economic growth these research projects
often generate, U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-New Hartford), chair
of the House Committee on Science, told New York business, government,
and academic leaders May 14
New York State is at a crossroads
in its economic history, and its decisions about state spending this year
will determine its future prosperity, Governor George Pataki told more than
700 business and government leaders at The Business Council's annual dinner
May 14.
The Governor thanked The
Business Council for contributing ideas, information, and advocacy that
he said have helped make New York's recent economic resurgence possible
The New York State Electric
& Gas Corp. (NYSEG) estimates that New York's potential electric supply
shortfall in the years ahead is even larger than previously suggested, saying
this "adds urgency for real solutions."
The New York Independent
System Operator (NYISO), which operates the state's electric grid, recently
called on the state to permit the siting of 8,600 megawatts of new generating
capacity by 2005
ALBANYFive
of New York's leading academic and industrial experts in high-tech research
and development will participate in a May 14 panel discussion on how research
and development investments can generate technological and economic growth
in New York.
The panel discussion
will be part of The Public Policy Institute's annual Economic Issues Forum,
which is scheduled from 3-5 p
The Pataki administration
Wednesday proposed changes to auto insurance in New York designed to fight
fraud and cut auto insurance premiums.
The legislative
and regulatory package includes an executive order from the Governor
naming the Attorney General special prosecutor to coordinate state-level
investigatory and prosecutorial efforts to fight fraud
Senate Majority Leader Joseph
Bruno Wednesday convened a meeting of the Joint Legislative Budget General
Conference Committee and renewed his call for $2.2 billion in new tax cuts.
No Senate or Assembly Democrats
on the conference committee attended the meeting.
The Senate's package won
approval of the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday