By Kieran K. Meadows
What a difference a year makes.
Jobseekers may not feel better, but if you ask economists, things are not nearly as bad as they thought they might be.
“Looking forward and looking backward, we’re better off than most people would have imagined at this point,” said Barbara Byrne Denham, an economist for Eastern Consolidated, [...]
Entries from December 2009
December 7, 2009
Citing signs of stabilization, economists hopeful about next year
December 6, 2009
The governor’s power to grant clemency
Under the New York State Constitution, the governor has the power to grant clemency to prisoners “upon such conditions and with such limitation, as he may think proper” (excluding for crimes of treason or impeachment). Most states in the U.S. give the extraordinary power of clemency to governors (or at least in some hybrid arrangement [...]
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