Hinchey: Block That Deal Feb 5, 2010
Maurice Hinchey (N.Y.) was firing off a letter to the Attorney General and FCC chairman calling on them to block the deal entirely. According to sent to Attorney General Eric Holder and Facc chairman Julius Genachowski, they said that the deal would be more consolidation, less choice, and higher cable bills, the last a point hammered on in the Senate hearing. (Multichannel News)
NY regulators release gas drilling rules (3) Jan 20, 2010
NY regulators release gas drilling rules - Somerset - Daily American. The new rules, released for public review Wednesday, apply to the New York portion of the Marcellus Shale region a largely untapped gas reserve that also runs through parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Valley deserves national status Jan 13, 2010
Maurice Hinchey: a formal study of creating a national park for the Hudson River Valley. We can look with pride at the large turnout of people at Hudson River waterfront events, museum shows and public lectures, as Paul Grondahl noted in his Jan. 2 Times Union article about the quadricentennial. (Albany Times Union)
Johnson: Big Risky Banks Will Spark Next Crisis Jan 13, 2010
Legislation sponsored by Senators John McCain and Maria Cantwell, and a companion one authored by Representative Maurice Hinchey, would restore some of the key provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act, passed in the Great Depression and repealed in 1999, which separated commercial and investment banking completely. Newsmax. (Newsmax)
