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• Cuomo Woman's Equality Act plan includes human trafficking agenda

  human trafficking, passed last week by the state Legislature as part of his Women's Equality Act, comes as New York lags behind other states in attacking the problem.Experts say thousands of people are trafficked every year in New York -- as sex slaves or 6/18/13 Read more »

• O'Reilly: New York Republicans need to go on offense

  the tally, one thing is certain: From January to July, the Republicans are playing defense. Maybe that's just reality in a state like New York, where Democrats so dramatically outnumber Republicans. With an increasingly liberal Democratic governor and an Assembly 6/18/13 Read more »

• Editorial: Help local governments by fixing labor arbitration system

  never letting a good crisis go to waste. With the terrible trajectory of so many of New York's cities and counties and the state's 39-year-old binding arbitration law expiring June 30, the governor has both. Cuomo mustn't let either go to waste.With the end 6/18/13 Read more »

• NY lawmakers push Amtrak for bike baggage cars

  County and Brad Hoylman of Manhattan said Monday such a move would get more visitors and tourism dollars into New York state.They discussed their plan at Amtrak's Albany-Rensselaer station.The lawmakers are asking Amtrak to add baggage cars that could carry   Read more »

• Editorial: Creative solution to fund disability services

  lawmakers and service providers are applying a healthy dose of decency and common sense to protect developmentally disabled people in New York. That's one of few positive developments in Albany these days, where it appears other big ideas may come up short.Gov.   Read more »

Around the web

• UN honours radio programmes that address global issues

  of Public Information (DPI) and New York Festivals. Phillip Martin of Boston public radio station WGBH travelled across the United States and Asia to produce the three-part series. The second-place, silver DPI award went to "The Oliver Twist of Kabul - The 56 m ago from New Kerala Read more »

• Deloitte fined for “violations of the law”

  one-year suspension from soliciting new consulting work from hundreds of financial institutions and will pay $10m to New York as the state begins an unparalleled crackdown on independent consulting firms. New York’s Department of Financial Services cited Deloitte’s 4:53 AM from Tax Research Read more »

• Unleash state’s district attorneys to attack corruption

  backs, hampered by ineffective and outdated laws that create hurdles not seen in federal court. To strengthen New York’s weak state corruption and procedure laws, Gov. Cuomo has proposed the Public Trust Act. It’s a much-needed first step to give local prosecutors 4:15 AM from New York Daily News Read more »

• Mrs. Kennedy calling

  New York farmworkers gained new life as supporters made painful concessions in hope of winning a breakthrough in Albany. The state’s 100,000 field hands are exempt from provisions guaranteeing a day off per week, overtime after an eight-hour day or a 40-hour 4:05 AM from New York Daily News Read more »

• Lodha Casa Rio Gold Among The Indiaâ��s Top Residential Apartment

  are the second largest residential housing builder by revenue wise. Lodha Builders have their headquartered in Mumbai, state of Maharashtra and that’s why they mainly target the Mumbai area for their new or soft launch. They have been in residential as well 4:00 AM from Silicon India Read more »