News

• Calls Grow to Cap Property Taxes Higher
  Assessed Values Push Up Bills, Sparking Outcry as Market Prices Drop (Wall Street Journal) January 5, 2009
• Notes from the sideline: Crisis is an opportunity
  ON NOVEMBER 25TH, Governor David Paterson issued an open letter to school districts across New York state warning that school aid would be cut in next year's budget. Paterson explicitly said the state was going to cut expected increases next year and may be forced to cut aid payments below this year's assistance. State aid to public schools has increased by 48% over the past 5 years and by over 20% in the last 2 years alone. (John Faso / The Independent) December 2, 2008
• LI groups mull how to curb school spending, taxes (JOHN HILDEBRAND / Newsday) November 24, 2008
• Residents, businesses are seeking tax relief. 'It puts me in a hole almost every year' (Dan Miner/Utica Observer Dispatch)
• DiNapoli: N.Y. schools putting away too much (Cara Matthews/Gannett News Service)
• Chamber Holds Annual Awards Banquet (The Post Journal) October 10, 2008
• Poll: NY voters want property tax relief (Newsday) October 8, 2008
• STAR checks start to arrive (By Jill Bryce / Gazette Reporter) October 4, 2008
• NIAGARA COUNTY: Lawmakers looking for tax relief (Mark Scheer / Niagara Gazette) October 05, 2008
• Property tax panel's work continued, despite economy (Cara Matthews/Gannett News Service) October 3, 2008
• Tax relief chairman calls on fellow Democrats to support property tax cap (Thomas J. Prohaska/The Buffalo News, September 29, 2008)
• HELP HOMEOWNERS
  WHY NY NEEDS A PROPERTY-TAX CAP NOW (KENNETH ADAMS/The New York Post Op-Ed, September 29, 2008)
• Hudson Valley counties among highest taxed in the country (Mid Hudson News, September 25, 2008)
• NY'S PROPERTY-TAX TOPPER (By Kate Sheehy / New York Post, September 24, 2008)
• Small businesses need state to cap property taxes (By Mike Elmendorf / Buffalo News, September 12, 2008
• Tom Suozzi, Chair of the Governor's Property Tax Commission's presentation to the Rockland Business Association - Part 1
  Part 2
• Suozzi presses property-tax cap (Hema Easley/The Journal News, September 4, 2008)
• Cap the growth of property taxes, says tax commission chief (Mid Hudson News/September 4, 2008)
• Taxpayers need relief
  State teachers union uses muscle to protect system with poor results (Editorial/The Buffalo News, August 23, 2008)
• SILVER'S OTHER SIN (Editorial, New York Post, August 22, 2008)
• Paterson, legislators: More budget cuts may be needed (James T. Madore/Newsday, August 21, 2008)
• State tax-cap advocate to speak in Binghamton (Press & Sun Bulletin, August 11, 2008) 
• NY Property Tax Cap Coalition says Senate is right on the tax cap, (August 8, 2008)
• Teachers lukewarm on Paterson's property tax plan (James T. Madore/Newsday)
• Assembly members on tax cap plan (News 12 Long Island, August 5, 2008)
• Government Modernization Task Force And The Property Tax Cap (Gr. Syracuse Chamber of Commerce, August 2008)
• Senate GOP vows good news for school districts (Joseph Spector/Gannet News, August 4, 2008)
• Rally Calls on Legislature to Adopt a Tax Cap Now (Rochester Business Alliance, July 30, 2008)
• Suozzi takes up new mission: property tax cap (Joseph Spector/Gannett News Service)
• Suozzi pushes for cap on property tax increases (William Murphy/Newsday)
• Executives plan rally for property tax cap (Thomas Adams, Rochester Business Journal, July 22, 2008)
• New Senate leader takes tour of Glens Falls (Maury Thompson/Glens Falls Post Sta, July 22, 2008)
• Busy Summer for Paterson (Karen DeWitt, WXXI, July 22, 2008)
• Skelos calls Glens Falls a 'model city' (WNYT/Albany, July 21, 2008)
• Albany's 'big 3' fail to reach compromise on property tax cap (Joseph Spector/Gannett News Service, July 21, 2008)
• Senate Backing, Silver Blocking Property Tax Cap (Jacob Gershman/The New York Sun, July 21, 2008)
• Skelos Presses for Tax Cap at First Leaders' Meeting (Danny Hakim/The New York Times, July 21, 2008)
• Paterson, top state lawmakers discuss economic downturn (James T. Madore/Long Island Newsday, July 21, 2008)
• Taxing issue POINT: Cap pressures government, not residents, to perform (John J. Faso, Albany Times Union, July 20, 2008)
• New Senate leader stresses upstate needs (Robert Hadad-Zlokower and George Basler, Press & Sun-Bulletin, July 10, 2008)
• New York residents want property tax relief (Steve Sink, Democrat and Chronicle, July 6, 2008)
• Rockland business group backs property tax cap (The Journal News, July 5, 2008)
• Tax Cap Hot Topic this Summer (Karen DeWitt, WXXI, July 1, 2008)
• Coalition forms in support of school tax cap (James T. Madore, Newsday, July 1, 2008)
• Tax cappers launch competing Web sites (Newsday's blog Viewsday, July 1, 2008
• New York property tax cap hot topic for both parties (Joseph Spector, Democrat and Chronicle, July 1, 2008
• Tax cappers and battling web sites (Times Union Capitol Confidential, June 30, 2008)
• Statement from Governor David A. Paterson welcoming the creating of The New York Property Tax Cap Coalition
• New York Property Tax Cap Coalition Launched New Web site www.taxcapnow.org
• Needed: a defining tax-cap moment (Newsday, June 29, 2008)
• Gov. Paterson is right; state taxpayers need relief now (Op-ed by Catherine Glover, Greater Binghamton Press & Sun - Bulletin, June 24, 2008)
• Tax relief can't wait (Editorial, Poughkeepsie Journal, June 23, 2008)
• Albany: Give taxpayers the 'blunt instrument' they need (Editorial, The Journal News, June 23, 2008)
• Legislators defy public on tax cap (Op-ed by Erika Rosenberg, Albany Times Union, June 20, 2008)
• NY Property Tax Cap? (Story, WTVH-TV CBS5, Syracuse, June 3, 2008)