We are pleased that the Business Council recognizes that investing in education initiatives is fundamental to the economic well-being of New York state.

The Senate still needs to explain why it's insisting, unlike every other state in the nation, that the Medicaid inspector general would have a five-year term.

They're all directly associated with his positions as a member and speaker of the Assembly.

The speaker has been pushing for the elimination of the sales tax on clothing for years and is disappointed in the governor's proposal. It's a tax increase on working families. For the day-to-day life of working families, the elimination would be much more to their benefit.

I want big business to pay their share. We could create revenue to go back into our education fund. If we took back that lost revenue, we wouldn't have any more poor teachers.

We got our education on the job because we didn't know this business. We had started out growing trees and doing landscaping, so I thought it wouldn't be too hard to do flowers. We didn't find out how hard it was until we were doing it, but we got a lot of help from other nurseries around here.