Daily Budget News 1/12

NYT: Adding to Recession’s Pain, Thousands to Lose Jobless Benefits

Democrat and Chronicle: Soda tax foes speaking up

AP: Budget woes prompt states to rethink prison policy

Daily Gazette: Few dispute need for drug law reform

Journal News: Think you're ailing? Consider plight of hospitals

Star Gazette: Cost of running state pension funds soars

TU: Money for the taking

Newswatch 50: Paterson: slow down on wind power

News 10: Paterson addresses economic issues at town hall meeting

Watertown Daily Times: Paterson sympathetic but blunt

Crain's: Paterson spares biotech

Newsday: Experts: Paterson's State of the State impact limited

Star Gazette: N.Y. starts center for mental health, drug treatment

Star Gazette: Winner denounces plan to cut wine foundation funding

NYT: 4-Day Workweek Proposed to Ease the State’s Deficit

The Post-Standard: Central New York arts organizations could see less state money in 2009

Democrat and Chronicle (editorial): New Senate majority leader must stay attuned to upstate needs

NY Post (editorial): TIME TO CHOP JOBS