Empire Justice Center will release its latest report: “Turn up the Heat: It’s Time to Raise New York’s Shelter and Fuel Allowances” today at 11 a.m. via email. A statement from Empire Justice Center said that New York state’s public ...

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WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the deadly assault on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday, laying blame on the State Department, the intelligence community — even the late Ambassador Chris Stevens — for failing ...

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ALBANY — A new report on New York’s economy calls the last 10 years a “lost decade” for typical workers, with median wages dropping almost 7 percent for men and about 1 percent for women. The Fiscal Policy Institute said ...

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A new report by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct addresses various pros and cons of judicial license plates. The report, dated May 7, addresses the ethical and public policy implications of license plates that identify the owner of a ...

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The Rochester Business Alliance on Thursday released a report calling upon state leaders and members of the state Workers’ Compensation Board to implement system reforms approved in 2007. “Unfinished Business: Five Years of Worker’s Compensation Reform, Still a Work in ...

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PITTSBURGH — Pennsylvania regulators aren’t inspecting tens of thousands of oil and gas wells even once a year, a new report says. But state officials say they’re inspecting most new wells in the Marcellus Shale region, which is the right ...

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Members of the newly created University at Buffalo Shale Resources and Society Institute released a report Tuesday calling Pennsylvania’s regulation of hydrofracking activity in the Keystone State a success. The authors called the report, titled “Environmental Impacts During Shale Gas ...

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In a report released on Wednesday, the New York Civil Liberties Union accused the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol of going far beyond its mandate of border protection in conducting raids on buses, trains and roads in upstate New York. ...

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A plan to allow the controversial process of high volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to extract natural gas deposits from New York’s Marcellus Shale region moved one step closer to reality this week. The Department of Environmental Conservation ...

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The University of Rochester could not have foreseen or prevented the death of Jeffrey Bordeaux Jr., a student killed in January during a fight at an on-campus fraternity party. That is according to a 36-page report released Wednesday by President Joel Seligman.

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To maintain its position as one of the world’s major centers for international legal matters, New York should establish a permanent center for international arbitration, as well as a council of international law firms to promote and advance New York law, recommends a report released Tuesday ...

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It may be the Internet or public disclosure of past disciplinary cases, but the number of complaints against New York’s judges hit a new record in 2010. The Commission on Judicial Conduct, chaired by Perinton Town Justice Thomas A. Klonick ...

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