Daily Budget News 4/6

NY1: Delayed State Budget Only Lacks Paterson's Signature

NYT: N.Y. State Passes $131 Billion Budget

TU: Senate ends budget year

Daily News: State Senate passes budget as Albany GOP rails

NY Post: CUOMO RIPS PATERSON'S TAX HIKES

Buffalo News: DiNapoli calls budget a blueprint for fiscal failure

NY Post: PAPA'S LAW FIRM KILLS GOV'S TAX BID

Buffalo News: Health care takes it on the chin in budget

Ithaca Journal: State budget has good, bad news for higher education

NYT: Spoils of Victory in Albany Are More Funds for Pet Projects

NYT: From Albany, Taxes Raised Enough to Hurt

NY Post: POLS IN $TATE OF UTTER CONFUSION ON BUDGET

Buffalo News: No crime too big to take away a public pension

Daily News: Powerball may be coming to New York

NYT: State Law to Cap Public Defenders’ Caseloads, but Only in the City

Epoch Times: Governor Paterson Proposes Legislation To Fight Obesity

AP: States pull back after decades of get-tough laws

TU: Another facet to drug court

WaPo: Cuomo Subpoenas AIG Data

Daily News: Biz raids in Willets Met with disgust

NY Post: COUNCIL IS OFF TO THE RAISES

Newsday: Recession forcing museums to do more with less

Newsday (news analysis): Analysis: NY's Assembly speaker rises with budget

WSJ (opinion): New York's Budget Targets the Golden Eggs

Village Voice (opinion): Barrett: If Murdoch and Zuckerman are Whining, is the State Budget Really So Bad?

NY Post (editorial): QUINN'S CAUTIOUS 'CUTS'

NY Post (editorial): MYSTIFYING SEC'Y DUNCAN

Newsday (editorial): Are public employers paying too much for insurance?

TU (editorial): Spring in N.Y.

Democrat & Chronicle (editorial): Democrats' support for new budget plan was irresponsible

Democrat & Chronicle (editorial): Washington's too trusting of N.Y. on stimulus

Post-Standard (editorial): Dean Skelos, poster boy for petulance

Post-Standard (editorial): 'Free' Pollution? Governor quietly eases pressure on power generators