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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Public Policy Institute releases new report on New York’s bioscience sector

The Public Policy Institute (PPI), the research arm of The Business Council of New York State, today released an in-depth study on the challenges in attracting and retaining private-sector jobs and companies in New York’s lucrative bioscience sector. Based on interviews with 30 indu
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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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Business Council alum appointed Deputy Comptroller for Budget & Policy Analysis

State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced today that he has appointed Robert B. Ward to serve as Deputy Comptroller of Budget & Policy Analysis. Most recently, Ward was the deputy director and director of fiscal studies for the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the
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When it comes to business taxes, location… location… location…

New Study Has the Bottom Line on Tax Costs in All 50 States The Tax Foundation has created a measurement of the bottom-line tax liability a firm would face doing business in each of the fifty states. What that measurement shows is the wide disparity in the way businesses are taxed sta
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Bringing manufacturing back home

The following is an excerpt from an op-ed that was authored by Senator Tom O’Mara and published in the Corning Leader: “Across the Southern Tier, from Binghamton straight on out to Buffalo, many of us can recall this proud tradition of manufacturing. While that pride’s s
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Biopharm press conference in Buffalo (video)

Please click here to view YNN’s coverage of the press conference held at New York State’s Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences in Buffalo.
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The importance of growing NY’s biopharm sector

Henry Davis of the Buffalo News writes: “Considering its size and financial strength, New York State should rank much higher in the competition to encourage the growth of life sciences companies. That’s the conclusion of a report by the Public Policy Institute, the research ar
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Study shows NY is second worst U.S. state in which to do business

Emily Yang writes in The Washington Square News – “The survey, published by the Development Counsellors International marketing firm, revealed that behind California and ahead of Illinois, 46.5 percent of respondents voted New York the second worst state for doing business
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Effort urged to attract biopharm jobs on Long Island

Keiko Morris writes in Newsday – “Bringing more high-paying biopharmaceutical research and manufacturing jobs to Long Island won’t happen without a concerted statewide effort to compete in the sector, research and educational leaders and industry advocates said Wedne
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