At NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which early in the year was threatened with 30 percent budget cuts by Republicans who resent its reports on climate change, Gavin Schmidt occupies the seventh - floor corner office once occupied by the legendary James Hansen, the scientist who first laid out the facts for Congress in 1988 and grew so impassioned he got himself arrested protesting coal mines. (esquire.com)
If it is the impact of 20 percent budget cuts on everyday families, that's Cuomo's turf. (nystateofpolitics.com)
The latest to tee off on Gov. David Paterson is Broome Community College President Kevin Drumm, who sent an e-mail message to the campus community in which he railed against a 2 percent budget cut coming from Albany that will hurt institutions of higher learning like his. (nystateofpolitics.com)