Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D., former Lt. Governor, constitutional scholar, and patient advocate and Founder of Defend Your Health Care will detail the 2010 healthcare legislation and its impact on medical care. Dr. McCaughey will focus on the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and how it will affect patients, medical professionals, businesses and communities. The need for tort reform and cost cutting health insurance reforms will also be addressed.
Date: Wednesday, October 5
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Harlem Road Community Center Auditorium 4255 Harlem Road Amherst, New York
For more information, please contact Lisa at lthrun@afphq.org.
Americans for Prosperity, Upstate New York Lawmakers: Stop New Yorks Participation in RGGI Cap & Trade Scheme Before Its Too Late
RGGI, Burdensome Regulations Jeopardize Thousands of Jobs at AES Somerset, Other Area Coal Plants
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DATELINE: SOMERSET, NY Americans for Prosperity joined forces today with several upstate New York elected leaders to sound the alarm bell over the job-killing Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Cap & Trade scheme and other destructive green regulations that are threatening the viability of the areas electricity-producing coal plants and risking thousands of jobs in the region.
Americans for Prosperity and state and local elected officials will hold a joint press conference next Tuesday, August 16th in the Town of Somerset to draw attention to the threat posed to seventeen power plants in the Upstate New York Region.
The event is scheduled to take place at 3:30 p.m. at the Somerset Town Hall, 8700 Haight Road, with state Senator George Maziarz, Assemblyman Steve Hawley, Somerset Councilman Daniel Engert, and AFP NJ Director Steve Lonegan to highlight the destructive impact the RGGI Cap & Trade scheme and other burdensome taxes on ratepayers are having on upstate New York.
The press conference will draw attention specifically to the threat posed to AES Somerset Generation Plant and the regions sixteen other coal plants. Last year, AES Somerset was forced to suspend operations due to economic pressures brought about by the RGGI Cap & Trade program and other regulatory mandates.
Private, parochial, and charter schools from around the Western New York area, gathered at the Walden Galleria in Cheektowaga, NY to showcase their curriculum and programs in celebration of Milton Friedman for Freedom Legacy Day on July 29, 2011.
Parents and the public learned more about the school choice movement as one way of improving our educational system.
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