Paterson wavers on threat of huge school aid cuts
ALBANY - Gov. David A. Paterson on Tuesday wavered on his threat to force lawmakers next week to accept big spending cuts to school aid and colleges or shut down state government.
"I'm trying to get [legislative houses] to make an agreement because I wasn't going to dump billions of dollars in cuts into [emergency spending bills] . . . which I think would be trying to gouge the legislature...
