Mayor Bloomberg today presented a Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 Executive Budget and an updated four-year financial plan. May 6, 2011 (Photo Credit: Edward Reed)
Bin Laden: Hillary erased from some photos. [Tim Perone]
Budget NYC: Unlikely to get teacher seniority changes through Assembly, mayor moves ahead with plans for 4,100 layoffs. [Fernanda Santos and Sharon Otterman]
Budget NYC: Council eyes Bloomberg’s reserve fund. [David Seifman]
Audit NYC: Comptroller Liu probes why some co-op assessments rose 147 percent. [David Seifman]
NY26: Debate Thursday, at 9 a.m.; streaming live online. [Democrat and Chronicle]
NY26: Boehner to visit today. [Raymond Hernandez]
2012: Republican donors just waiting. [Jim Rutenberg and Jeff Zeleny]
2013: Has Bill Thompson waited too long? [Celeste Katz]
Train Security: Schumer proposes “no ride” list. [Lore Croghan]
Albany Ethics: Editors support Cuomo’s push for reforms. [NY Daily News]
Same-Sex Marriage: Lt. Gov delivering opening remarks at rally in Albany at 1 p.m.; 1,200 advocates expected. [Poughkeepsie Journal]
Same-Sex Marriage: Newark judge suspended deportation of one couple; signal from Obama administration? [Julia Preston]
State Senate: Democrat Shirley Huntley reportedly under federal probe; unnamed Democrat rejects assertions from Bill Samuels, who alleges Cuomo didn’t help Democrats enough in 2000. [Fred Dicker]
Union Wages: Requiring them at construction sites that get public financing is gaining traction. Vito Lopez says bill he sponsors represents “moderation” of earlier position [Eliot Brown]
Executive Races: Erie County comptroller, Mark Poloncarz, says he’ll run for county exec. [Joseph Popiolkowski]
Property Tax Cap: Debate across the state. [Rick Karlin]
Cemetery Funds: Assemblyman Brennan wants to protect about $6 million unused funds in little-known account. [Carl Camanile]
Fake Birth Certificates: Buffalo City Hall employee admitted to FBI she faked documents. [Aaron Besecker and James Heaney]
Cuomo’s Neighborhood: Plays it low-key in Mt. Kisco; current girlfriend Sandra Lee and ex-wife Kerry Kennedy dined together. [Erica Orden and Jacob Gershman]
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The Senate Democ”RATS” are in a state on panic over the Fred Dicker piece today.
They know the shoe is going to drop and wipe them out.
Before there was the “Oracle at Delphi” there was Count Vampire J. Machiavelli
VJ Machiavelli
The Legislative Budget is Too Damn High