Daily Budget News 3/3

Daily News: State Democrats question credibility of MTA business data

PoJo: Senate Democrats want transit authority audit

NYT: Helping the M.T.A., Ravitch Takes a 3rd Turn as Fiscal Savior

Newsday: State: Pension fund likely to lose more than 20%

Daily News: State Controller Thomas DiNapoli maintains he runs an 'open' pension fund

NY Post:TOWNS IN PENSION SQUEEZE

PoJo: School boards discuss stimulus aid

Journal News: Stimulus dims prospects for school efficiencies

Newsday: NY officials: 7 schools will close in NYC, Buffalo

NYT: A Plea to Keep Cameras Rolling in New York

TU: State, federal jobless assistance boosted

Press & Sun-Bulletin: Gas cards to ease cost of job search

Press & Sun-Bulletin: Group wants more funding for community health care

TU: State budget cuts put farmland at risk

Daily News: Mike's got no problem with Weiner earmarks

Daily News (opinion): Uncork wine in grocery stores: Paterson's right to try to end senseless restrictions

NYT (opinion): Health Care in the New York State Budget

Times Herald-Record (editorial): MTA payroll tax hurts business, helps very few

Daily News (editorial): Hype & hysteria: Hospital lobby wrongly blames Gov. Paterson for closures

TU (editorial): Just say yes to drug law reform

Post-Standard (editorial): Costly Penalty: States turn against capital punishment because of its price