The conferences have focused on international ocean affairs with topics ranging from arms control, and monitoring and surveillance in the oceans to management and conservation of marine resources; the feasibility of
common shipping lines or on ocean development tax; and more recently on emerging issues and challenges presented by climate change, coastal cities and ocean related hazards.
By embracing the report of his
Common Core task force, which calls to «revisit» the standards and «right the
ship,» Cuomo is showing he lacks — forgive me — the cojones to hold the
line on higher expectations.