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   <title>The Morning View: Thursday Editorial Roundup</title>
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   <published>2009-07-23T13:54:21Z</published>
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   <summary>Good moring, and welcome to today&apos;s views. Newsday, sporting a new Web design, says the State Senate did at least three things right before it adjourned last week: banned texting while driving, adopted a Babylon-style progam to make greening a...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[Good moring, and welcome to today's views.

Newsday, sporting a new Web design, says the State Senate did at least three things right before it adjourned last week: banned texting while driving, adopted a Babylon-style progam to make greening a home more affordable, and ended shackling of prisoners giving birth. (no link)

The Times wants the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/opinion/23thu1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion">government to do more for CIT</a>, the lender that may be teetering into bankruptcy. The paper supports <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/opinion/23thu2.html?ref=opinion">a new watchdog</a>, with subpoena power, for the state's hundreds of public authorities. A federal report about cellphone use behind the wheel <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/opinion/23thu3.html?ref=opinion">could have saved lives </a>had it been released when it was completed years ago. Columnist Gail Collins says "every inch has been torture" in crafting <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/opinion/23collins.html?ref=opinion">health care reform </a>that can win the support of Congress.

The Wall Street Journal <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574304253669550612.html">turns up the heat </a>on Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, whose vote on health care reform "could well define his political legacy." The Journal claims that the Obama administration is <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574304343697759178.html">trying to intimidate</a> the Congressional Budget Office, which put a steep price tag on health care reform last week. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574302750620244872.html">California is making progress </a>coming out of its budget crisis with a series of deep budget cuts passed this week. Karl Rove in a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574304161389163586.html">guest opinion </a>says ObamaCare is in trouble. (subscription required)

Over at the Journal's sister paper, the Post says <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07232009/postopinion/editorials/letting_the_left_lead_180852.htm">popular support </a>for the presidents health care plan is taking a dive. The paper says a <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07232009/postopinion/editorials/a_rat_from_long_island_180850.htm">home-grown terrorist </a>from Patchogue, Long Island, is among the most troubling developments. And the paper <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07232009/postopinion/editorials/thompsons_latest__er_______audit_180851.htm">picks apart </a>City Comptroller Bill Thompson's audit of schools' performance.

The Daily News wants to know <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/23/2009-07-23_who_backed_the_traitor_new_york_al_qaeda_recruit_must_have_had_help_betraying_am.html">who helped </a>the Patchogue traitor down the path from devout Catholicism to radical Islam. Columnist Errol Louis examines the "nuts" who claim Obama <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/columnists/louis/index.html">should be disqualified </a>from the presidency because they challenge he was born in the U.S.

The Buffalo News says upstate is <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/editorials/story/741857.html">receiving only "leftovers"</a> from the annual State Senate pork fest -- and the paper blames partisan funding.

The Democrat and Chronicle believes <a href="http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090723/OPINION04/907230327/1041/OPINION/Obama+hits+key+points+in+case+for+health+reform">Obama made the case </a>for health care reform in his TV address last night.

The Post-Standard wants Gov. Paterson to <a href="http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2009/07/sound_investment_governor_shou.html">sign a bill </a>that would "sweeten tax credits for developers who improve historic commercial properties in distressed areas," which could help downtown Syracuse among others.

(The Morning View is available every weekday morning, compiling opinion pieces from around New York. If you would like to receive a reminder each day, e-mail anne.michaud@newsday.com with "subscribe" in the subject line.)

<strong>-- Anne Michaud</strong>
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   <title>NYC graduation report concerns Long Island educators</title>
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   <published>2009-07-22T18:19:23Z</published>
   <updated>2009-07-22T19:03:43Z</updated>
   
   <summary>A report out yesterday from City Comptroller Bill Thompson charges that the Bloomberg administration is inflating graduation rates for city schools. Leaving aside for the moment the incendiary politics of this report -- that Thompson is running for mayor, that...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[A <a href="http://www.comptroller.nyc.gov/bureaus/audit/07-21-09_ME09-065A.shtm">report out yesterday </a>from City Comptroller Bill Thompson charges that the Bloomberg administration is inflating graduation rates for city schools.

Leaving aside for the moment the <a href="http://gothamschools.org/2009/07/21/mayoral-hopeful-bill-thompson-says-he-would-fire-joel-klein/">incendiary politics</a> of this report -- that Thompson is running for mayor, that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's bid to renew his control over city schools failed last week -- Long Island educators say they, too, have questions about claims of <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2009/06/23/2009-06-23_mayor_bloomberg_uses_higher_graduation_rates_to_bolster_case_for_mayoral_control.html">steadily improving graduation rates</a> in city schools.

"I'd like to see audits on how the city schools data is compiled," said Ronald Friedman, the recently retired superintendent of Great Neck schools and immediate past president of the Nassau Council of School Superintendents. "When you focus on an issue like [the graduation rate], the numbers should go up. I would certainly like to see corroborating data that I could feel more comfortable with."

Friedman added that he would choose someone other than the city comptroller to make an independent assessment.

Roberta Gerold, superintendent of the Middle Country Central School District, said she has a sense that the "cohort groups" in city schools aren't intact. In other words, students are held back and graduate later than their original class -- or not at all -- but don't show up as dropouts. Students who transfer from the city sometimes seek a higher grade level than their credits would dictate.

"The paperwork coming to us isn't always strong enough to give us confidence," Gerold said. "If I wanted to manipulate data, I would imagine it's pretty easy to miscount a kid from school to school."

Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein have been insisting for years that their efforts are improving city schools, and they say the numbers tell the story. If that's true, maybe they would not decline to open their books to a third-party audit. For now, Thompson's audit is strengthening suspicions that something is amiss.

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   <title>The Morning View: Wednesday Editorial Roundup</title>
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   <published>2009-07-22T14:01:43Z</published>
   <updated>2009-07-22T14:31:47Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Good morning, all. Here are today&apos;s views. Newsday says that power struggles within the Suffolk County Police Department are causing bad decisions -- in this case, a body left on Brentwood streets for hours. And the federal government should mandate...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[Good morning, all. Here are today's views.

Newsday says that <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpbody2212989854jul21,0,5299207.story">power struggles </a>within the Suffolk County Police Department are causing bad decisions -- in this case, a body left on Brentwood streets for hours. And the federal government should mandate <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpclean2212972253jul21,0,6584635.story">better labeling </a>of household cleaners.

The Senate must close <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/opinion/22wed11.html?_r=1&ref=opinion">two big loopholes </a>in the House's climate change bill, says the Times. The FCC and Justice Department should look at whether competition is being stifled among <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/opinion/22wed11.html?_r=1&ref=opinion">mobile carriers</a>. Republican leadership in the House is distorting the debate over ending a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/opinion/22wed3.html?ref=opinion">failed student loan program</a>. And a reversal on a Bush administration <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/opinion/22wed4.html?ref=opinion">logging policy </a>spells relief for the spotted owl. 

The Wall Street Journal doubts that Fed Chairman Bernanke can, as he claims, withdraw liquidity from shored-up financial institutions in time to <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574302524030510570.html">avoid inflation </a>or another asset bubble. President Obama is touting the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574302511270077996.html">elimination of funding </a>for F-22's as a tight-budgeting triumph, but the Journal says he has a long way to go. And government at the federal and state levels is giving <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574299992289841598.html">for-profit career colleges </a>a hard time, even though they produce good results. (subscription required)

The Post says a <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07222009/postopinion/editorials/thompsons_temptation_180598.htm">critical report on graduation rates </a>from City Comptroller Bill Thompson is "clearly bogus" and motivated by Thompson's campaign for mayor. And the paper says viewers should keep their <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07222009/postopinion/editorials/bams_unhealthy_dollar_dodge_180599.htm">eye on the federal deficit </a>tonight when Obama takes to airwaves to talk about his health care reform.

The Daily News says <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/22/2009-07-22_the_mice_must_roar_betrayed_by_senate_liars_squadron_must_lead_charge_for_mayora.html">the Four Amigos </a>-- who have held the State Senate hostage two or three times this year -- are making fools of themselves and hurting the public's agenda. Columnist Michael Goodwin says Mayor Bloomberg will reap <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/columnists/goodwin/index.html">a political windfall </a>from the Albany chaos.

Buffalo County's laudable plan to give tax-exempt financing to non-profits -- for construction that will <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/editorials/story/740710.html">create jobs </a>-- is being torpedoed by the county legislature.

The Post-Standard says <a href="http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2009/07/sort_of_reform_new_senate_rule.html">new State Senate rules </a>are a start toward reform, but they don't go far enough.

The Press-Republican thinks the <a href="http://www.pressrepublican.com/0201_editorials/local_story_202232241.html">State Senate's outrageous acts </a>have finally aroused an apathetic public.

The Times Herald-Record approves of a move to <a href="http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090722/OPINION/907220322">a four-day work week </a>at Chester town offices, to save energy and money.

(The Morning View is available every weekday morning, compiling opinion pieces from around New York. If you would like to receive a reminder each day, e-mail anne.michaud@newsday.com with "subscribe" in the subject line.)

<strong>-- Anne Michaud</strong>
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   <title>The Morning View: Tuesday Editorial Roundup</title>
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   <published>2009-07-21T14:13:42Z</published>
   <updated>2009-07-21T16:42:48Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Good morning, everyone. Newsday says that to be good at his new job on the MTA&apos;s capital board, Sen. Craig Johnson is going to have to think outside the parochial concerns of his district. And a concealed weapons add-on to...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[Good morning, everyone.

Newsday says that to be good at his new job on the MTA's capital board, Sen. Craig Johnson is going to have to think outside <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpjoh2112985843jul21,0,5605001.story">the parochial concerns of his district</a>. And a <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpgun2112985842jul20,0,6583447.story">concealed weapons</a> add-on to a US Senate bill is "a deadly bit of mischief."

The Times bemoans the trend of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/opinion/21tue1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion">Supreme Court nominees </a>avoiding controversy. The paper agrees that the concealed weapons measure in Congress is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/opinion/21tue2.html?ref=opinion">the latest assault </a>on public safety. And Gov. Paterson should sign a bill that would <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/opinion/21tue4.html?ref=opinion">un-shackle prisoners </a>giving birth. Columnist David Brooks says President Obama is on a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/opinion/21brooks.html?ref=opinion">liberal suicide march</a>, because he is following the agenda of Congressional Democrats instead of leading them toward the center.

The Wall Street Journal is outraged by a measure in the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574298661486528186.html">federal health care bill </a>that would phase out Erisa, which gives companies the option to self-insure and offer the same plan in multiple states. The paper compares the man-to-the-moon space program to <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574300492220801728.html">Ground Zero reconstruction </a>-- both lasted eight years and one was far more successful. Private bondholders are <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574300221028710590.html">bailing out CIT</a>, but the company is also seeking a government loan through the back door. (subscription required)

The Post prints <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07212009/postopinion/editorials/probe_the_clowns_pork_180475.htm">another clown face </a>and derides state senators for calling Mayor Bloomberg names, after they failed to act on school governance. The nation's governors are rightly concerned about the cost of <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07212009/postopinion/editorials/bitter_pill_for_nations_govs_180476.htm">health care reform</a>. And columnists Dick Morris and Eileen McGann pick up on the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07212009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/health_win___disaster_for_dems_180512.htm">partisan suicide </a>theme, saying Democrats are headed for disaster over health care reform.

The Daily News also <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/21/2009-07-21_shoot_it_down_senate_must_kill_amendment_that_would_dangerously_gut_gun_laws.html">dislikes the concealed weapons </a>measure in Congress -- making it a trifecta this morning for Mayor Bloomberg's PR staff, which is pitching opposition to the bill. Rep. Carolyn Maloney <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/21/2009-07-21_carriedaway_carolyn_maloney_went_over_the_line_in_repeating_a_racial_slur.html">crossed the line </a>with a racial slur she used to criticize Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's record. (Maloney has apologized.) And the News <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/21/2009-07-21_farewell_teacher_man_angelas_ashes_author_frank_mccourts_lasting_legacy.html">pens a farewell </a>to late author Frank McCourt.

The Times Union says the state senate should <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=821931&category=MONEDIT">set a new ethical standard </a>and reject the reappointment of Kay Stafford to the SUNY board of trustees. Her company has a business relationship with the SUNY Research Foundation. And former <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=821932&category=MONEDIT">veep Dick Cheney </a>needs to answer some questions raised by CIA revellations about secret programs.

The Buffalo News likes a pair of bills from the state legislature that open the door to economic development and resource protection in <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/editorials/story/739658.html">towns in Adirondack Park</a>.

The Post-Standard praises <a href="http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2009/07/a_new_day_reforms_will_change.html">state senate reforms</a>.

Rockland County Republicans are blocking a measure to require large chain restaurants to <a href="http://www.lohud.com/article/20090720/OPINION/907200301/1015/OPINION01/Fat-chance">post calorie counts</a>, says the Journal News.

The new <a href="http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20090721/OPINION01/907210306/1004/OPINION">MTA chief nominee </a>must answer questions about where he stands on recent "outlandish" MTA decisions, such as the payroll tax, says the Poughkeepsie Journal.

(The Morning View is available every weekday morning, compiling opinion pieces from around New York. If you would like to receive a reminder each day, e-mail anne.michaud@newsday.com with "subscribe" in the subject line.)

<strong>-- Anne Michaud</strong>
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   <title>Would-be governors duke it out on the op-ed page</title>
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   <published>2009-07-20T15:45:21Z</published>
   <updated>2009-07-20T17:09:59Z</updated>
   
   <summary>It&apos;s no secret that New York&apos;s popular attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, is waiting in the wings in case Gov. David Paterson fails to make the case that he should be the Democrats&apos; nominee to run for governor in 2010. Paterson...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[It's no secret that New York's popular attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, is waiting in the wings in case Gov. David Paterson <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/04/06/2009-04-06_gov_paterson_gets_message_from_top_democ.html">fails to make the case </a>that he should be the Democrats' nominee to run for governor in 2010. Paterson is at pains to get his <a href="http://maristpoll.marist.edu/630-paterson%E2%80%99s-gubernatorial-prospects-inches-closer-to-giulianidead-heat-with-lazio/">poll numbers </a>up before the party pooh-bahs need to make that choice later this year.

Those tensions are playing out <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-pogov1612973062jul15,0,5708586.story">in the courts </a>over Paterson's appointment of MTA legend Richard Ravitch as his lieutenant governor. But they're playing out on op-ed pages too.

First came a wave last week of Cuomo support. The AG has made it clear that he believes the Ravitch appointment is unconstitutional. But it's dangerous, politically, for him to go too far and pick a fight with the governor. So, Cuomo's proxies are speaking up instead.

Former AG Dennis C. Vacco wrote an <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-opvac1612972316jul15,0,4237931.story">opinion for Newsday</a>, saying that he believes the appointment sets a dangerous precedent. Sol Wachtler, former chief judge, told Albany Times Union readers <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=820334&category=OPINION">the same</a>.

Three days or so later, the Paterson team showed up on opinion pages, claiming that the governor's legal basis for appointing Ravitch is sound. Here's <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/149/story/737597.html">Daniel J. Kramer</a>, a partner at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, in the Buffalo News. Former New York City Mayor <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/opinion/18koch.html">Ed Koch</a> in the New York Times. <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=821551&category=OPINION">Richard Briffault</a>, a Columbia Law School professor, in the Times Union. And William Josephson, a former assistant AG, in Newsday. (no link)

Of course, officially, the legal challenge to Ravitch's appointment comes from State Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos and State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada (back on July 9 when he was temporarily sitting with the Republicans). But the Democratic schism is also clear enough. The courts will decide this one, it appears, but not before many column inches are expended.

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   <title>The Morning View: Monday Editorial Roundup</title>
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   <published>2009-07-20T13:35:50Z</published>
   <updated>2009-07-20T14:28:35Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Good morning. Here are some views from today and over the weekend. Newsday endorses Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. And the paper says the State Senate adjourned with too much business unfinished and should return and pass laws, especially...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[Good morning. Here are some views from today and over the weekend.

Newsday <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpsoto2012980230jul17,0,5290010.story">endorses Sonia Sotomayor </a>for the Supreme Court. And the paper says the State Senate adjourned with too much <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpalb2012980231jul17,0,1358936.story">business unfinished </a>and should return and pass laws, especially to help the economy. On Sunday, Newsday sounded the alarm about the escalating burden of <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpgasp1912976661jul17,0,3791879.story">public retirees' health </a>costs.

The Times sorts through proposals <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/opinion/20mon1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion">to pay for national health </a>care reform. The paper warns about the special interests, including the banking industry, that want to kill off President Obama's proposed <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/opinion/20mon2.html?ref=opinion">consumer protection agency</a>. And the editors offer an appreciation of the late <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/opinion/cronk2.html?ref=opinion">Walter Cronkite</a>.

Over the weekend, the Times pointed a finger at Rep. John Murtha, who could be tainted by indictments of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19sun2.html">two big defense companies </a>that have benefited from his largesse. Allowing <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19sun3.html">battered women </a>assylum from countries that tolerate domestic violence is long overdue. And the G-8 still needs to come to agreement to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19sun1.html">reduce greenhouse emissions</a>. Columnist Frank Rich parses the Sotomayor hearings and says some of the questioning <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19rich.html?em">'splains the atrophy </a>of the Republican party.

The American Medical Association is <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124804389935663419.html">selling its support </a>for Obama's health care reform too cheaply, says the Wall Street Journal. The AMA wants a repeal of the hated "sustainable growth rate," a formula that automatically cuts physician payments if entitlement spending rises too steeply. Next year, docs could lose almost 22%. Europe is thumping the U.S. with <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124804400627663427.html">lower taxes and freer trade</a>. And <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124804413309863431.html">"card check" legislation</a>, which would eliminate secret ballots in union elections, is being repackaged to get around opponents. (subscription required)

The Post says Hillary Clinton is <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07202009/postopinion/editorials/hillarys_tough_talk_180263.htm">double-talking </a>on Iran. And the paper <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07202009/postopinion/editorials/save_the_airpower_museum_180262.htm">wants to save </a>Republic Airport's Airpower Museum by rebulding it after an FAA-ordered demolition. The <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07192009/postopinion/editorials/tale_of_t_wo_stimuli_180077.htm">federal stimulus </a>is fueling an economic rebound in China. And Obama's urgency on health care reform is <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07182009/postopinion/editorials/a_rush_to_disaster_179883.htm">a rush to disaster</a>.

The Daily News <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/20/2009-07-20_give_it_up_goldman.html">begrudges Goldman Sachs </a>its success. The paper hopes that the Obama administration finds a way to cut the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/20/2009-07-20_what_the_doctor_ordered.html">cost of health care </a>reform, in light of a new Congressional Budget Office report. And the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/20/2009-07-20_dirty_rotten_scoundrels.html">State Senate has proven </a>that its talk of reform was just talk. 

Crain's warns about the <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/assets/pdf/CN65997712.PDF">looming state budget deficit </a>and says Albany must come to grips with the fact that it spends more than it takes in. (subscription required)

The Times Union has its own list of <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=821539&category=MONEDIT">unfinished Albany business</a>. And there is no reason not to confirm <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=821380&category=OPINION">Judge Sotomayor</a>.

The Buffalo News is <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/editorials/story/738664.html">hopeful </a>about the State Senate's reforms. New <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/editorials/story/738055.html">revellations from the CIA </a>make the News rethink its position against an independent investigation of possibly illegal acts by the Bush administration.

The Post-Standard wants a study of the dropping <a href="http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2009/07/at_what_cost_great_lakes_study.html">Great Lakes water levels</a>, but says a cost estimate for the study must come first.

(The Morning View is available every weekday morning, compiling opinion pieces from around New York. If you would like to receive a reminder each day, e-mail anne.michaud@newsday.com with "subscribe" in the subject line.)

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   <title>The Morning View: Friday Editorial Roundup</title>
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   <published>2009-07-17T13:57:02Z</published>
   <updated>2009-07-17T14:29:38Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Good morning, and welcome to Friday. Newsday says the state legislature is right to freeze medical malpractice rates, but only if there&apos;s a longer-term solution in the offing. And the State Senate did well to pass rules reform, opening the...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[Good morning, and welcome to Friday.

Newsday says the state legislature is right to freeze <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpmed1712976665jul16,0,7116930.story">medical malpractice rates</a>, but only if there's a longer-term solution in the offing. And the State Senate did well to pass <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpalb1712976669jul16,0,235647.story">rules reform</a>, opening the chamber's actions to public view.

In the wake of a new report by inspectors general, the Times calls for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/opinion/17fri1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion">a full investigation </a>of the laws broken by the Bush administration in the name of national security. Support for Robert Groves as director of the Census Bureau <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/opinion/17fri2.html?ref=opinion">should carry over </a>as he tries to rebuild public confidence. The Chechnian president should be removed, following the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/opinion/17fri3.html?ref=opinion">murder of a government critic</a>. Columnist Paul Krugman says Goldman Sachs' success comes by <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/opinion/17krugman.html?ref=opinion">playing the rest of Americans </a>for suckers.

The Wall Street Journal is in full condemnation mode over the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124779717982855785.html">House health care plan </a>that President Obama has endorsed, calling it a raid on private income and business. Good news for <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124779737373155801.html">the capital markets </a>this week: the government let nature take its course at the struggling CIT Group, and Credit Suisse is selling securities without the ratings agencies' involvement. Columnist Peggy Noonan says the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124777884829553723.html">Sotomayor hearings </a>were unsatisfying and gave little insight into how the judge thinks. (subscription required)

The Post, for the second day, lays out the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07172009/postopinion/editorials/sick_reform_179675.htm">damage the national health care </a>plan could do to the economy. The paper denigrates the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07172009/postopinion/editorials/priority_no__1__pork__of_course_179677.htm">State Senate </a>for avoiding a vote on school governance, giving a higher priority to divvying up the pork. 

The Daily News advocates for the umpteenth time for <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/17/2009-07-17_keep_mayoral_control_senate_must_maintain_city_hall_power_over_schools_as_reform.html">mayoral control </a>of city schools. And the paper is heartened that a city councilman has pleaded guilty to <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/17/2009-07-17_stop_the_thieves_city_council_must_end_porkbarrel_member_items.html">accepting kickbacks </a>for porkbarrel spending.

The Times Union says the State Senate <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=820816&category=MONEDIT">didn't go far enough </a>on rules reform.

The Democrat and Chronicle <a href="http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090717/OPINION04/907170315/1041/OPINION/Reforms+are+only+a+start+for+Senate">agrees</a>.

The Journal News likes the Obama administration's investment in <a href="http://www.lohud.com/article/20090717/OPINION/907170315/1015/OPINION01/Wise-investment">community colleges</a>.

The Poughkeepsie Journal is discouraged by <a href="http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20090717/OPINION01/907170307/1004/OPINION">yet another impasse </a>at Ground Zero.

The Long Island Business News wants <a href="http://libn.com/blog/2009/07/17/editorial-out-of-poverty/">sewers for Wyandanch </a>development, and bemoans the loss of OSI Pharmaceuticals, which is moving to Westchester.

(The Morning View is available every weekday morning, compiling opinion pieces from around New York. If you would like to receive a reminder each day, e-mail anne.michaud@newsday.com with "subscribe" in the subject line.)

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   <title>The Morning View: Thursday Editorial Roundup</title>
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   <published>2009-07-16T14:02:15Z</published>
   <updated>2009-07-16T14:35:51Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Good morning. Newsday says the State Senate should move quickly to assess the newly nominated MTA chief, because the agency needs stability. And Long Island might want to reconsider that tunnel under the sound, after this week&apos;s mess on the...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[Good morning.

Newsday says the State Senate should <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpmta1612972256jul15,0,7177867.story">move quickly </a>to assess the newly nominated MTA chief, because the agency needs stability. And Long Island might want to reconsider that <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpthr1612972255jul15,0,3498660.story">tunnel under the sound</a>, after this week's mess on the Throg's Neck Bridge, which is backing up traffic into Nassau County.

The Times likes the House Democrats' bill on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/opinion/16thu1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion">health care reform</a>. The paper says a handful of senators should stop pushing for construction of more <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/opinion/16thu2.html?ref=opinion">F-22 fighter jets</a>. Congress should get rid of a measure that expressly allows Section 8 subsidized housing recipients to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/opinion/16thu3.html?ref=opinion">keep guns </a>in their homes. California's budget crisis could shutter state parks, which the Times points out are <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/opinion/16thu4.html?ref=opinion">low-cost recreation </a>at a time when people are struggling. Columnist Roger Cohen says the low-calorie diet may make the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/opinion/16iht-edcohen.html?ref=opinion">monkey live longer</a>, but asks if his life is really better for it.

The Wall Street Journal tells <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124770335901048655.html">Big Pharma </a>that the industry could lose out by pursuing its current strategy of playing along with House Democrats' health care reform, rather than opposing it. Iran is in <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124770378081748771.html">too much turmoil </a>after its phony election to listen to U.S. demands on nuclear weapons; President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton are foolish to negotiate with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And Obama is heading down the same <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124770381931448777.html">blame-the-employer </a>path that Bush trod over immigration reform. (subscription required)

The Post says that, <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07162009/postopinion/editorials/the_worst_show_on_earth_179452.htm">post-stalemate</a>, the State Senate is still getting nothing accomplished. And the paper, predictably, calls Obama's <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07162009/postopinion/editorials/here_comes_obamacare_179451.htm">health care plan </a>"radical."

The Daily News ups the insult ante and calls the State Senate a bunch of <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/16/2009-07-16_liars_and_bullies_state_senate_democrats_become_ever_more_disgraceful.html">liars and bullies</a>. The paper wanted approval of mayoral control of schools yesterday. And the News decries the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/16/2009-07-16_grand_jury_fodder_rotten_pay_deal_for_domestic_abuser_monserrate_demands_investi.html">stipend and chairmanship </a>given Sen. Hiram Monserrate, who still faces criminal charges that he beat up his girlfriend.

The Buffalo News doesn't want federal officials to talk about <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/editorials/story/734873.html">a second stimulus </a>until the results of the first one are clearer.

The Democrat and Chronicle warns <a href="http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090716/OPINION04/907160325/1041/OPINION/Backup+budget+plans+needed">state government </a>against raising taxes to close a looming budget deficit in the second half of the year.

The Post-Standard says Goldman Sachs' <a href="http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2009/07/crisis_what_crisis.html">profits and bonuses </a>should not soar, after taxpayers bailed out the company.

(The Morning View is available every weekday morning, compiling opinion pieces from around New York. If you would like to receive a reminder each day, e-mail anne.michaud@newsday.com with "subscribe" in the subject line.)

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   <title>The Morning View: Wednesday Editorial Roundup</title>
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   <published>2009-07-15T14:07:16Z</published>
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   <summary>Good morning, all. Here are the views from around New York today. Newsday says Congressional questioners are focusing too much on the past with Judge Sotomayor, and should ask her about emerging issues. And the state of play in Albany...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[Good morning, all. Here are the views from around New York today.

Newsday says Congressional questioners are focusing too much on the past with Judge Sotomayor, and should ask her about <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpsoto1512967925jul14,0,693305.story">emerging issues</a>. And the <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpalb1512967930jul14,0,2861675.story">state of play in Albany </a>is again upset by one member, revealing the weakness of the most recent leadership pact.

The Times reminds President Obama that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/opinion/15wed1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion">foreclosures and unemployment </a>need attention too. And there's a lot of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/opinion/15wed2.html?ref=opinion">unfinished business in Albany </a>as well. The paper likes Dr. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/opinion/15wed3.html?ref=opinion">Regina Benjamin </a>for surgeon general.  Columnist Maureen Dowd says the Sotomayor hearings reveal that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/opinion/15dowd.html?ref=opinion">white men are afraid </a>of extinction.

The government's approach to systemic risk has created <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124762129423442667.html">"haves" and "have nots"</a> in the banking industry, says the Wall Street Journal, as is exemplified by the divergent fortunes of Goldman Sachs and CIT. And the paper says the definition of <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124762164167442721.html">judicial activism </a>has been watered down. Columnist Thomas Frank says the GOP has embraced the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124762164167442721.html">culture of victimhood </a>in Sarah Palin. (subscription)

The disproportionate rise in <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07152009/postopinion/editorials/its_a_jobs_thing_179314.htm">unemployment among blacks </a>is one more reason to keep mayoral control of city schools, says the Post. Newly nominated as <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07152009/postopinion/editorials/solid_guy__impossible_task_179313.htm">MTA chief</a> Jay Walder faces a nearly impossible task of setting the agency on a solid financial path. Columnist Nicole Gelinas <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07152009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/perilous_mta_pick_179286.htm">weighs in </a>on Walder.

The Daily News <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/15/2009-07-15_off_the_rails_again_state_senate_democrats_betray_straphangers_with_big_stall_on.html">likes Walder, too, </a>and says the governor has made a good choice. But the Senate needs to shout down those who would delay his confirmation.

Albany the city -- not the seat of state government -- is managing its landfill <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=819951&category=MONEDIT">from crisis to crisis</a>, says the Times Union. And the paper inches toward calling for <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=819962&category=MONEDIT">a formal investigation </a>of the Bush-era domestic spying programs.

The Buffalo News likes AG Andrew Cuomo's website on using the new <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/editorials/story/733828.html">government consolidation</a> law.

The Post-Standard says the Senate Democrats' wooing of <a href="http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2009/07/politics_or_crime_wooing_of_es.html">Sen. Pedro Espada </a>looks a lot like bribery.

(The Morning View is available every weekday morning, compiling opinion pieces from around New York. If you would like to receive a reminder each day, e-mail anne.michaud@newsday.com with "subscribe" in the subject line.)

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   <title>Albany legislature will be a favorite target in 2010</title>
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   <summary>Republican Rick Lazio&apos;s op-ed in the New York Times today is an early volley in what will likely be a highly anti-Albany campaign for governor next year. Lazio, a former Suffolk County representative to Congress, is considering entering the race....</summary>
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      <![CDATA[Republican Rick Lazio's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/opinion/14lazio.html?_r=1&ref=opinion">op-ed in the New York Times </a>today is an early volley in what will likely be a highly anti-Albany campaign for governor next year.

Lazio, a former Suffolk County representative to Congress, is considering entering the race. He has this to say:

<blockquote>Is it any wonder that nothing gets done in Albany? The New York Assembly and Senate pass different versions of the same bill and can’t agree on what the final legislation should look like. When lawmakers do get together to hash out their differences, they meet behind closed doors. Too often, a good bill appears in one house, and never comes up for debate in the other. 

I have a different idea for New York — a unicameral legislature like Nebraska’s. Without two sides warring with each other and duplicating each other’s work, state government would be more efficient, less expensive (our two-house Legislature costs more than $200 million) and less prone to gridlock. </blockquote>

Other potential gubernatorial candidates want the "reform" mantle as much as Lazio seems to.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo ran on the campaign promise in 2006 that he would be the Eliot Spitzer of state government -- cleaning up Albany the way that Spitzer scoured Wall Street. Of course, so much has happened to the Spitzer brand since then, it's comical to think about Cuomo reviving that line for a gubernatorial race in 2010. But the AG is <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2009/07/cuomo-fundraises-on-government.html">working hard </a>to establish himself as the reform agent, with his government consolidation bill recently signed into law, and his probe of the State Comptroller's office.

Even Gov. David Paterson -- while nominally running New York State -- has taken a number of shots at the legislature in an effort to boost his <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/723152.html?imw=Y">tough-guy image</a>.

What's next? "Fix Albany: The Sequel," from Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi? Or Rudy Giuliani fighting crime, from city streets to the in the halls of the Capitol? The sloganeering possibilities are limitless.

Meanwhile, very little real change is taking place in the legislature. Promises to limit the influence of lobbying groups through campaign-finance reform, to crack down on ethics violations and to stop wasteful spending have resulted in a lot of hot air. That's what's so regrettable about the outlook for the 2010 campaign. It could, once again, become all talk and no deliver. 

<strong>--Anne Michaud</strong>

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   <title>The Morning View: Tuesday Editorial Roundup</title>
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   <published>2009-07-14T14:01:04Z</published>
   <updated>2009-07-14T14:41:20Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Good morning, everyone. Newsday supports a primary race for the US Senate seat to which Kirsten Gillibrand was appointed. And the paper likes a new defensive driving course New Yorkers can take online, to get a 10 percent discount on...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[Good morning, everyone.

Newsday supports <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpprim1412965355jul13,0,6212112.story">a primary race </a>for the US Senate seat to which Kirsten Gillibrand was appointed. And the paper likes a <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpdmv1412965354jul13,0,1668244.story">new defensive driving course </a>New Yorkers can take online, to get a 10 percent discount on car insurance.

The Times thinks <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/opinion/14tue1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion">Judge Sotomayor </a>should answer Congress' questions substantively, even though <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/us/politics/12judge.html?scp=3&sq=sotomayor&st=nyt">news reports </a>suggest that Supreme Court candidates are counseled against doing so. The paper wants President Obama to order a full report on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/opinion/14tue2.html?ref=opinion">a 2001 massacre of Taliban POWs </a>in Afghanistan; the Bush administration discouraged such an investigation. Nominee Jon Jarvis is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/opinion/14tue3.html?ref=opinion">a good choice </a>for the National Parks Service. Columnist David Brooks sheds light on the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/opinion/14brooks.html?ref=opinion">sacrifices</a> Sotomayor made to achieve her professional goals.

The Wall Street Journal thinks Congress wants to raise taxes on people earning more than $280,000 to finance government health insurance, and this would be <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124753106668435899.html">a bad thing</a>. More than six in 10 who earn that much are small business owners. The Obama administration is <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124753176561835971.html">straining relations </a>with the Swiss by demanding that UBS hand over names of 52,000 US taxpayers with private bank accounts. (subscription)

The Post predicts agreement in the State Senate on <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07142009/postopinion/editorials/nearing_the_finish_line_179169.htm">mayoral control </a>of the city schools, as early as tomorrow. And NYC Council members are <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07142009/postopinion/editorials/quinns_nickel_and_dimers_179167.htm">spending a lot </a>on little things. Columnist Steve Cuozzo has an idea for <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07142009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/ending_the_impasse_179182.htm">retail at Ground Zero </a>that might end the Port Authority-Larry Silverstein impasse.

The Daily News also champions <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/14/2009-07-14_keep_mayoral_control_state_senate_must_renew_school_law_without_meddlesome_amend.html">mayoral control </a>of the schools. Columnist Bill Hammond says that billionaire Tom Golisano's 15 years of <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/columnists/hammond/index.html">meddling in Albany politics </a>has only made things worse.

The Times Union is <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=819572&category=MONEDIT">outraged by raises </a>for State Senate staffers.

The Democrat and Chronicle wants Obama to give <a href="http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090714/OPINION04/907140308/1041/OPINION/Progress+report+on+stimulus+needed">a progress report </a>on the federal stimulus spending.

The Journal News also criticizes <a href="http://www.lohud.com/article/20090714/OPINION/907140313/1015/OPINION01/At-the-trough">legislative staffers' pay raises</a>, which were retroactive to January.

(The Morning View is available every weekday morning, compiling opinion pieces from around New York. If you would like to receive a reminder each day, e-mail anne.michaud@newsday.com with "subscribe" in the subject line.)

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   <title>The Morning View: Monday Editorial Roundup</title>
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   <published>2009-07-13T13:26:16Z</published>
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   <published>2009-07-10T13:58:07Z</published>
   <updated>2009-07-10T14:37:20Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Good morning, all. Newsday says the &quot;slipperiest deal-cutter&quot; won in Albany -- but the stalemate was a waste for the rest of NY. And Long Island should help relocate the American Airpower Museum at Republic Airport, which the FAA wants...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[Good morning, all.

Newsday says the "slipperiest deal-cutter" <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpdems1012956129jul09,0,6356972.story">won in Albany </a>-- but the stalemate was a waste for the rest of NY. And Long Island should help relocate the American Airpower Museum at Republic Airport, which the FAA wants torn down. (no link)

President Obama is getting <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/opinion/10fri1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion">a lesson in how hard </a>it is to bring world leaders together about global warming, at the G-8 summit this week, says the Times. Congress should make sure the Treasury plan to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/opinion/10fri2.html?ref=opinion">regulate derivatives </a>is strict enough. The ousted <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/opinion/10fri3.html?ref=opinion">president of Honduras </a>should be allowed to finish his term, which ends in January. And the paper sides with Obama, who opposes <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/opinion/10fri4.html?ref=opinion">sharing classified information </a>with 40 Capitol Hill lawyers.

The Wall Street Journal says that in the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124718309166920285.html">absence of an agreement </a>on global warming policy by world leaders, they have passed an impossible and unrealistic goal with no strategy about how to get there. It's <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124718500236920481.html">risky doing business in China</a>, with four employees of a mining company detained this week by the government for stealing state secrets. And House Democrats are <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124718513104720457.html">playing politics </a>with national security to protect Speaker Pelosi. (subscription)

With the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07102009/postopinion/editorials/now_comes_the_hard_part_178560.htm">Senate deadlock ended </a>in Albany, the real work of patching a state budget deficit must begin, says the Post. And it's a double-Albany whammy at the Post today, with a second editorial fearing Democrats will now pass <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07102009/postopinion/editorials/from_bad_to_worse_178559.htm">a "left-wing wishlist"</a> teed up by the Assembly.

The Daily News calls <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/10/2009-07-10_zero_from_zeroes_state_senate_stalemate_ends_in_a_despicably_dirty_deal.html">State Senate leaders </a>"a pack of self-important dunces" and proceeds to lay blame where it's due.

The Times Union advises state senators to <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=818559&category=MONEDIT">get back into the real world</a>, bemoaning the stalemate of an anti-gun initiative, after their "monthlong abdication of responsibility." And the paper calls Sen. <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=818560&category=MONEDIT">Pedro Espada shameless</a>.

The Democrat and Chronicle says <a href="http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090710/OPINION04/907100328/1041/OPINION/Senate%20Democrats%20have%20much%20to%20prove?GID=i+lwQnmUuHWzkfsgu2Tvwk1sfqakwoIetw5jFTKxX2A%3D">Senate Democrats now have a lot to prove</a>, in particular that they can enact reforms that treat Republicans fairly.

The Post-Standard believes the <a href="http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2009/07/solution_or_monkey_wrench.html">Richard Ravitch appointment </a>as lieutenant governor may be more monkey wrench than solution.

The Journal News calls the State Senate Democratic conference <a href="http://www.lohud.com/article/20090710/OPINION/907100326/1015/OPINION01/A-fragile-coalition">a fragile coalition.</a>

(The Morning View is available every weekday morning, compiling opinion pieces from around New York. If you would like to receive a reminder each day, e-mail anne.michaud@newsday.com with "subscribe" in the subject line.)

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   <title>The Morning View: Thursday Editorial Roundup</title>
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   <published>2009-07-09T14:08:38Z</published>
   <updated>2009-07-09T14:30:42Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Good morning, everyone. Here are the views today. Newsday believes the naming of Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor will have mixed results, and may prove a divisive political move for Gov. Paterson. And the increase in Long Island gun ownership...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[Good morning, everyone. Here are the views today.

Newsday believes the naming of Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor will have mixed results, and may prove <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpgov0912953205jul08,0,6976665.story">a divisive political move </a>for Gov. Paterson. And the increase in <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpguns0912952464jul08,0,4372513.story">Long Island gun ownership </a>is worrisome. 

The Times cheers the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/opinion/09thur1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion">Ravitch decision</a>. Home care <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/opinion/09thur2.html?ref=opinion">aides deserve </a>fairer pay. And President Obama, who damaged the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/opinion/09thur3.html?ref=opinion">federal campaign finance </a>system, now has an obligation to repair it.

The Wall Street Journal believes Obama is trying to sell <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124709618142215031.html">a public health care option </a>as a "compromise," and in the process is hiding his fervid support for the plan. The president's Auto Task Force is <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124709643083215069.html">trying to shield GM </a>from creditor lawsuits; normally, the Obama administration is a champion of tort lawyers. And Journal scourge Eliot Spitzer, former NYS attorney general, is the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124709677873215085.html">cause of all of AIG's woes</a>, as was proven again yesterday when ousted CEO Hank Greenberg won a lawsuit. (subscription)

The Post understands Gov. Paterson's frustration over the Senate stalemate, but thinks the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07092009/postopinion/editorials/patersons_ravitch_option_178332.htm">Ravitch appointment </a>is probably unconstitutional. Guest columnist E.J. McMahon says the corrupt "placement fees" used to buy access to the state pension fund are small beans compared with other <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07092009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/defuse_the_pension_bomb_178292.htm">looming pension problems</a>.

The Daily News calls the<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/09/2009-07-09_paterson_was_brilliant_in_naming_richard_ravitch_lieutenant_governor.html"> Ravitch appointment </a>"bold and masterful." Columnist Bill Hammond thinks Ravitch has taken on <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/columnists/hammond/index.html">a thankless task</a>.

The Times Union thinks the Ravitch appointment was <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=818122&category=MONEDIT">a desperate move,</a> but shows that the governor is acting in the best interest of NY'ers.

(The Morning View is available every weekday morning, compiling opinion pieces from around New York. If you would like to receive a reminder each day, e-mail anne.michaud@newsday.com with "subscribe" in the subject line.)

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   <published>2009-07-08T14:02:01Z</published>
   <updated>2009-07-08T19:25:06Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Good morning. Here are the views today. Newsday bemoans the loss of OSI Pharmaceuticals, which gave Long Island a claim in the biotech world. The company is departing Melville for a friendlier business climate in Westchester County. And the paper...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[Good morning. Here are the views today.

Newsday bemoans the loss of OSI Pharmaceuticals, which gave Long Island a claim in the biotech world. The <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vposi0812948558jul07,0,5595820.story">company is departing </a>Melville for a friendlier business climate in Westchester County. And the paper cheers the advancement of two measures to <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpdist0812948559jul08,0,5098010.story">lower property taxes</a>.

The Times doesn't expect much of the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/opinion/08wed1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion">upcoming G-8 summit</a>, but hopes for climate change initiatives and help for the poorest countries. China needs to give its <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/opinion/08wed2.html?ref=opinion">minority groups </a>more autonomy. Some of the most <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/opinion/08wed3.html?ref=opinion">promising stem-cell </a>research could be denied public funding. Columnist Maureen Dowd takes on departing Alaska Gov. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/opinion/08dowd.html?ref=opinion">Sarah Palin</a>.

The Wall Street <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124701402471809161.html">Journal is skeptical </a>of President Obama's deal with Russia to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with a new agreement -- New START -- by year's end. The Journal says reducing arms could make the U.S. and our allies less safe. And the paper criticizes the late <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124701408081309143.html">Robert McNamara's "liberal allies,</a>" including the Times, for deriding him about the Vietnam War.

The Post thinks the federal <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07082009/postopinion/editorials/plan_b__more_turtle_tunnels_178134.htm">stimulus is not working</a>. Vice President Joe Biden has got his <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07082009/postopinion/editorials/cleaning_up_after_joe_178133.htm">foot in his mouth</a> about Israel. And <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07082009/postopinion/editorials/cleaning_up_after_joe_178133.htm">Rep. Charlie Rangel reaps editorial praise </a>for questioning why President Obama would clear the field for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. Guest columnist Nicole Gelinas says the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07082009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/save_the_subways_178097.htm">MTA's costs</a> are out of control.

The Daily News says Manhattan <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/08/2009-07-08_manhattan_da_candidate_snyder_plays_politics_with_etan_patz_case.html">DA candidates are grandstanding </a>over a 30-year-old case to win political points. And the paper praises the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/08/2009-07-08_a_popes_new_world_order_benedict_proposes_stunningly_radical_approach_to_global_.html">Pope's encyclical </a>on economic justice. Columnist Michael Goodwin says <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/columnists/goodwin/index.html">Albany pols </a>need a psychiatrist.

The Times Union is somewhat optimistic about the U.S.-Russia <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=817711&category=MONEDIT">nuclear weapons </a>talks.

The Buffalo News praises a decision that will lead to <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/editorials/story/727142.html">better treatment of prisoners </a>in Erie County jails.

The Democrat and Chronicle dissects the overwhelming <a href="http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090708/OPINION04/907080323/1041/OPINION/Jackson+s+death+and+self+examination">interest in Michael Jackson</a>.

Guest columnist Michael Heath tells Post-Standard readers that we should <a href="http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090708/OPINION04/907080323/1041/OPINION/Jackson+s+death+and+self+examination">stop romanticizing </a>adultery, specifically citing South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.

(The Morning View is available every weekday morning, compiling opinion pieces from around New York. If you would like to receive a reminder each day, e-mail anne.michaud@newsday.com with "subscribe" in the subject line.)

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