Soda tax

The tax would prevent 2.4 million cases of diabetes, 95,000 coronary heart events, 8,000 strokes and 26,000 premature deaths, while saving $17 billion in health expenditures and generating $13 billion annually.

A researcher breaks down how the food industry plies doctors away from sound science, with "$5,000 to go speak to this meeting or that meeting.They'll fly you on business class tickets to exotic places."

Last year, former Gov. David Paterson pushed a plan to levy

Courtesy Times Union Former state health commissioner Richard Daines was found

The latest PSA warning New Yorkers about the side-effects of excessive

Despite previous reports of its demise, is the soda tax really

Governor Paterson's proposal to levy a penny-per-ounce tax on sugary soft

Every week since Albany failed to meet its April 1st budget

After applying jumper cables yesterday to his perpetually pop-blocked plan to

Remember Governor Paterson's defeated plan to raise a billion dollars by

Martin Dilan In an attempt to close the budget gap, lawmakers

A proposed tax on sugary beverages is still being pushed by