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Reported by: Meghan Backus - Thursday, Sep 25, 2008 @03:00pm EST - Imagine pulling into a gas station and having options like you do in a grocery store. You could pick the generic product or the brand-name product. A bill awaiting approval by Governor Paterson would allow gas station owners in New York State to sell unbranded gas which costs less.
Posted by: Rachel Barnhart - Last Update: 9/22 7:42 pm - (Rochester, N.Y.) – Every county in New York has E-911, the life-saving technology that allows dispatchers to pinpoint your location if you call from a cell phone. Yet, cell phone users continue to pay a monthly surcharge that was put in place in 1991 to pay for the system.
by Leah George - photo by Kurt Mueller - Published Sep 22, 2008 - If you own a cell phone, you pay it every month, the $1.20 "911 service fee" on your cell phone bill. Like the name suggests that money was intended to go to 911 centers across the state for technology upgrades, but as the years have passed, the government has gotten a lot more flexible in how it spends your millions.(c)2008 Friends Of Assemblyman David Koon
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