Health Commish On Obesity Tax
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- December
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New York Health Commissioner Richard Daines, a physician, released a YouTube video about the benefits of taxing soda and other sugary drinks, which is a proposal by Gov. David Paterson as part of his budget.
The idea is unpopular with New Yorkers, yet Daines—aided by a blob of six pounds of fat in the five-minute video—tries to show how Americans and New Yorkers, especially kids, continue to drink too much soda, leading to obesity.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
