Sentences with phrase «contentious budget season»

Cuomo dismissed the poll results Wednesday as the cost of making policy, saying there was an «opposite side» to every issue, especially during the contentious budget season.

The vote ends a contentious budget season in which Mayor Michael Bloomberg had said that severe cutbacks in city and state funding along with a struggling economy made it necessary for the nation's largest city to dial back core services and lay off more than 4,000 teachers.

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The budget season in Albany was an especially brutal and contentious one this April, and only 22 percent of voters found the spending plan approved to be excellent or good and 23 percent believe it is a «poor» budget.

Queens Democratic Sen. Tony Avella said today he will re-introduce the adjusted tax on those who make more than $ 1 million, reviving a contentious debate from the budget season.