Good morning! Happy Earth Day! It will warm up to around 57 from this morning, I promise. Gov. Andrew Cuomo starts his week in Albany, but has no announced public schedule. Here?s our look at the events coming up this week, starting with a speech this morning on public corruption by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. Legislators will convene session this afternoon; Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has called a 1:30 p.m. press conference to call for further divestment from Iran. The City of Boston will observe a moment of silence at 2:50 p.m. Here are this morning?s headlines?
New York is hiring a Rochester-area firm to develop ?succession plans for the state workforce, 18 percent of which is expected to retire within the next five years. (TU)
NYSUT has turned on standardized tests. (TU)
Former Attorney General Dennis Vacco accused New York officials of unevenly enforcing rules regarding Indian tobacco, James Odato writes. (TU)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo privately told members of the Business Council that he won?t push ahead on hydrofracking because he fears legislators will impose a moratorium that he can?t veto, Fred Dicker writes. (NYP)
Recall: state officials promised, in March, that the last health review would be ready in ?a few weeks.? (GNS)
Will Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings seek another term? Jordan Carleo-Evangelist reads the tea leaves. (TU)
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver warned Democrats in that chamber that he?d report them to authorities if he suspect illegal behavior. (DN)
State Sen. Greg Ball is calling on officials to torture the teenage suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. He will be on Fox News at around 7:50 this morning. (Journal News)
A new ad campaign will push members of the state Senate to adopt public campaign financing. Some left-leaning groups in the coalition are worrying about the depth of Cuomo?s commitment to the issue, Ken Lovett reports. (DN)
Tom Precious:?Unlike any governor in recent history, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has institutionalized a new style of policy-making: throw out broad-brush ideas, sprinkle in a few basic details, and wait until the very last minute to propose the legislation for the public and rank-and-file lawmakers to scrutinize. (BN)
?It?s the kind of thing a benevolent dictator would prefer,??good-government advocate Michael Benjamin, a former Democratic assemblyman from the Bronx, told Michael Gormley. ?Yes, we will criticize (a bill), but that?s the process. Government isn?t playing poker. ? This is the kind of thing that leads to backroom dealing.? (AP)
Residents around the Capitol say a residential permit parking system is being abused. (TU)
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will move to unseal the Meyer Report, which details exactly what happened during the Attica prison uprising and subsequent raid in 1971. Cuomo supports the effort, too. (NYT/D&C)
Plans for the Justice Center are on track, state officials claim. (TU)
The number of double-dippers in New York fell from 2,800 to 2,650. (GNS)
The Times Union:?The Republicans are right to argue that public funding of campaigns is no panacea. But their reasoning is specious.?What Mr. Cox and state Senate leader Dean Skelos ignore is that no one, not even the most dreamy-eyed reformers or unyielding radicals, is pushing for public financing in a vacuum. This is about much more than allowing unsavory figures to get their hands on our money.//The use of government funds for campaigns must come with some rigid rules over how that money could be spent. A candidate should have to win private contributions from many individuals before qualifying for public matching funds, in order to ensure that he or she is credible. The limits on the contributions to be matched with public funds would have to be set much lower. And there would need to be a clear beginning and end to New York?s interminable political campaign seasons. (TU)
The Buffalo News:?The shock, such as it was, of new allegations of political corruption in state government hardly had time to register before Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed tougher laws, raising the stakes for those who abuse the trust of voters. It was an appropriate response that deserves careful, prompt review. (BN)
Fred LeBrun:?I don?t believe we have a moment ripe for really reforming the electoral process from top to bottom, what the governor refers to as ?the moment of opportunity? brought on by the latest?scandals.//And that?s because this governor would rather have his finger nails pulled out than give up an iota of control, of power. Look what he?s done with so-called ethics reform with the secretive and entirely inept JCOPE, which has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the governor?s?office.//Election reform, to be real, has to have truly independent and legally empowered?oversight.?(TU)
Alan Chartock: The always competitive Cuomo is in danger of being shown up by Preet Bharara the U.S. attorney (chief prosecutor) for the Southern District.//Bharara has been successfully collaring miscreant New York politicians and may, indeed, be running for something himself.//So much for the success record Andrew Cuomo, sheriff of Albany. //Cuomo, you will remember, promised to clean up Albany. He passed an ethics bill right out of the box that put everyone under the same ethics commission rather than allowing the Legislature to police itself as had been done in the past. ?Unfortunately so far, both the old way and the new way seem to be the same: ?All talk and little do.? (Daily Freeman)
Rex Smith looked at a different face in the immigration debate. (TU)
Casey says we should go easy on Justin Bieber. (TU)
Richard Brodsky describes the necessary conditions for public forgiveness. (TU)
On Sunday, Cuomo chatted with Jon Stewart during a 9/11 Memorial event. (Twitter)
Four men accused of bribing a state assemblyman are now barred from Medicaid. (DN)
Advocates want a more open system of discovery for criminal matters. (TU)
Are Long Island school districts trying to microtarget budget voters? (Newsday)
The Commission on Judicial Conduct processed 1,875 complaints last year. (AP)
Here are some national headlines?
A quick recap: 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is in custody after a 24-hour manhunt that shut down Boston for most of Friday. Investigators say Dzhokhar and his older brother, Tamerlan, planted two bombs at last Monday?s Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring over 150. Tamerlan was killed in a chase after robbing a 7-11, killing an MIT police officer and severely wounding a transit officer. (AP/Politico)
Dzhokhar has a throat injury?that prevents him from speaking. He remains in serious but stable condition. Debate now swirls on whether he?ll face a state or federal trial, and whether prosecutors should seek the death penalty. (CNN/NYT)
Several officials said they expected the Tsarnaev brothers would have committed more attacks, but there is not yet evidence they had support from any outside entity. (Boston Globe)
Investigators and journalists are learning about the brothers, including the elder Tamerlan?s increasing infatuation with Islam. (WSJ)
A fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas killed 10 volunteer firefighters and four residents?and left over 150 people injured. (DMN)
As he weighs a 2016 presidential bid, Maryland Gov. Martin O?Malley says he?s trying not to be a lame duck. (WP)
The Boy Scouts of America is considering a proposal to allow gay scouts, but continue to bar homosexual leaders. (AP)
The Koch brothers are interested in buying Tribune papers. (NYT)
Happy Birthday to?
Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. and former Sen. Craig Johnson (Sunday)
What you missed Friday?
James Freedland is leaving the attorney general?s office ? look at the proposed utility scorecard ? and check out this week?s edition of New York Now.
Et cetera?
The Czech ambassador really did this.
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