The annual spring dance of the crackdown bill has begun in Albany -- the kind of legislation that responds to the crisis or government fiasco of the season. As a result, for example, Sen. Dean Skelos and Assemb. Harvey Weisenberg, among others, are sponsoring fixes to the practice of off-payroll consultants hooking into the pension system of school boards, as covered in Newsday. Expect to hear more about this; here is some of the attention the snowballing issue is attracting elsehwere in the state.
Dan Janison