On the heels of a 14 percent hike in medical malpractice rates, Gov. Spitzer has directed his insurance superintendent to form a task force to "confront the fundamental drivers" of high medical-malpractice costs. The task force will be he Read More
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New York State has the third worst performing highway system in the nation, according to the latest annual transportation study by the Reason Foundation. Read More
Eliot Spitzer's first legislative session as governor ended last week with gridlock on some of his top priorities. But while they couldn't agree on campaign-finance and public-construction reform, Assembly Democrats and Senate Republicans were firmly united in their willingness to pander to New York's public-employee unions. Read More
Speaker: KATHRYN A. FOSTER MS. JULIA VITULLO-MARTIN: So when we were putting our panel together we figured we could not do a forum like this on Upstate New York without a serious look at Buffalo. And we were there Read More
Speaker: ROBERT J. DUFFY MR. EDMUND J. MCMAHON: We've discussed a whole lot of interesting issues this morning, and one that we've just touched upon, or just lightly, has been the issue, of course, that's very imp Read More
Speaker: RICHARD DEITZ JULIA VITULLO-MARTIN: So our first panelist is Richard Deitz. Richard is an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Buffalo branch. And Richard is going to do for us what banke Read More
Speaker: DANIEL GUNDERSEN MR. EDMUND J. MCMAHON: One of the recessive genes of the Manhattan Institute is that everything is always on time, and I'm happy to report to you again -- it's a dominant gene, actually - Read More
Speaker: PAUL HAGSTROM JULIA VITULLO-MARTIN: When we were first putting this conference together - we came up with a list of subjects that we thought were essential. And at the top of the list, was immigration. An Read More