Is this year's state budget crisis more of the same?
Photo credit: Kevin P. Coughlin | Stony Brook University students protest proposed education budget cuts. The demonstration Wednesday was timed for a visit from SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher who was attending a conference on how the state can attract more research and research money. (March 3, 2010)
LIers protest against Paterson's proposed budget cuts
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ALBANY - Teachers fired. Hospitals shuttered. Parks closed. Services for the poor and elderly decimated.
For 40 years, interest groups have raised such dire prospects when governors proposed spending cuts to close big budget deficits. And usually it worked, as lawmakers fearful of offending voters rejected or reduced any cuts, often by rolling the costs into the future.
Will this year...
