The Agenda: Closing a massive budget gap, sending Sheldon Silver to prison (probably) and saying goodbye to David Buzo

The Agenda: Closing a massive budget gap, sending Sheldon Silver to prison (probably) and saying goodbye to David Buzo

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MORNING LEAD Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced his plan to close a $6 billion dollar deficit. Cuomo’s $178 billion plan reflects an all-time high for state spending. He proposes to close the budget gap with a combination of tax increases, cuts in aid to municipalities and "tweaks" to the medicaid formula. QUICK READ A federal appeals court has partially overturned the 2018 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, once the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, but has allowed much of…

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