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Dear Fellow New Yorker,
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the Governor established the Moreland Commission to investigate utility companies’ storm preparation and response efforts. Today, the Governor heard preliminary recommendations from the Commission for reform. The Commission noted that the six utilities in New York and the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) operate as natural monopolies in their service areas with no risk of losing all or part of the territory because of weak government oversight. To address this, the Commission made a series of recommendations to strengthen state oversight of utilities to ensure future accountability. These include the authorization of the Public Service Commission (PSC) to impose stricter penalties for utility companies; regular review and approval of emergency storm plans; auditing of utilities’ management, operations, and rate increase requests; and more trained staff at the PSC. In their investigation of LIPA’s preparation and response efforts, the Commission found that a dysfunctional management structure led to an operational and communications breakdown. Additionally, LIPA’s failure to implement years of past state recommendations led to its inability to communicate correct outage information and restoration estimates to its customers following the storm. In response to these findings of structural failures, the Commission recommended the privatization of LIPA under the commission's proposed strengthened state oversight. Click here to view the presentation and learn more about the Commission’s findings and recommendations. The Moreland Commission will continue to look at LIPA and other utilities operating in New York State and issue a final report with additional recommendations in the coming months. The new New York is one that works for you and your family. Sincerely, The Office of the Governor |
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> Stop scratching on holidays
Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
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