Times Union: Support for bioscience urged

Business Council Report Says Increased Money, Resources Needed Brian Nearing of the Times Union reports on The Business Council’s Public Policy Institute’s bioscience report released yesterday. He wrote: “The report, prepared by the council’s Public Policy Inst
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Heather Briccetti discusses the state’s biotech sector on Capital Tonight

Heather Briccetti, president & CEO of The Business Council, appeared on Capital Tonight with Liz Benjamin to discuss the Public Policy Institute’s report on the state’s bioscience sector. PPI is the research and educational arm of The Business Council.
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The Business Council of New York State’s Public Policy Institute to unveil Bioscience report

The Public Policy Institute (PPI), the research arm of The Business Council of New York State, will be releasing an in-depth study on the challenges in attracting and retaining private-sector jobs and companies in New York’s lucrative bioscience sector. Business Council presiden
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Governor Cuomo lauds President Obama at UAlbany NanoCollege

Jimmy Vielkind of the Times Union reports on Governor Cuomo’s introduction of President Obama at UAlbany yesterday. Vielkind includes other details, including how the two men compare in height. He writes: “The two men embraced on the tarmac and rode in the same limousine f
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Transcript: President Obama’s remarks at UAlbany

We’re getting these remarks through the Times Union’s Casey Seiler who notes in his blog that the transcript includes President Obama’s “bless you” to a sneezer down front near the start of his speech. Heather Briccetti was among those invited to the even
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New Siena poll shows dip in consumer confidence in New York

Plans to Buy Cars and Homes Up Strongly; 2/3rds Worry about Gas and Food I’ll get right to Dr. Doug Lonnstrom, professor of statistics and finance at Siena College and SRI Founding Director, who sums up the poll quite nicely: “Overall consumer confidence dipped in April across
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The Business Council on NYPA’s approval of the first round of Recharge New York allocations

NYPA approved allocations to 422 businesses, including 122 small businesses, with total allocations of 522 Mega Watts (MW) of low cost hydropower and NYPA purchased power. Other applications are still under review, and NYPA has an open application process for additional participants.
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Heather Briccetti in Newsday: Solar too costly for big investment

Heather Briccetti’s letter to the editor regarding solar energy mandates appears in today’s Newsday.  Here it is: Regarding “New York still in the shade on solar” [Opinion, March 28], I believe that New York is on a path to solar. Our state is not in the shade
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AOL to sell 800 patents to Microsoft for $1B

AOL says it will Determine the Best Way to Distribute a “significant portion” of the Sale’s Proceeds to its Shareholders This comes to us from the Associated Press: AOL said Monday that it has agreed to sell 800 of its patents and their related applications to Microsoft and
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NY ranks as No. 1 global business center

New York ranks first as a global business center in a worldwide survey of cities, the fourth such recognition of its influence in the past five months.

London, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong trail New York on the Global Cities Index, released Monday by Bloomberg Rankings. Bei
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