The Week That Was: The Beginning of the Budget and Pension Battles

Last week in New York politics could be renamed “The Throwing of the Gauntlet.” Very little was decided, the ground was lain for a number of major battles to come: Between Andrew Cuomo and Mike Bloomberg on the budget, between Bloomberg and the unions on pension reform, and if, a Brooklyn senator has his way, between parents and their kids over the privacy of their bedroom.

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