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This series consists of news stories and editorials that Moffat and his legislative staff compiled and kept for reference purposes. Almost all were published in New York State newspapers, but a handful were culled from papers published in Baltimore, Chicago, and other cities. Centering upon state fiscal and political issues, they help to shed light upon Moffat's role in state politics and upon public opinion about state taxation, spending, and social policy.

Press releases and drafts of these from Associated Industries of New York, including some printed on the AINY letterhead, some titled "For the Press," some titled "Joint News Release" from AINY, the Empire State Chamber of Commerce, New York State Council of Retail Merchants, New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry, also including some written "statements" and "specials to" newspapers by Raymond T. Schuler, and a few news releases from other sources but on subjects which concerned AINY. Note: The complete text of any speech of Raymond T. Schuler's mentioned in a press release can be found filed chronologically with the speeches in the President's File.

This series contains information on internal audits of the Office's budget, animal research policies, correspondence with research centers and institutes, reports from committees on which the Office played a part and correspondence with academic departments regarding their graduate programs.

This series contains the records of the Capital District Area Joint Board. The Capital District Area Joint Board which was chartered in 1937, became a part of the Hudson Valley Area Joint Board in 1968. This series contains records of the main board, including meeting minutes, bylaws, and constitutions. The series also includes local chapter arbitration documents, meeting minutes, and bylaws. This series also contains records related to the Troy Area Industrial Union Council, CIO, which was associated with the Capital District Area Joint Board.

This series contains the subject file maintained by Frank Moore's office during his service at the New York State Office for Local Government and the Government Affairs Foundation. Arranged alphabetically by subject, it consists of files on a wide variety of topics related to the administration of local government in New York State. Subjects represented extensively include the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, municipal bond issues, Home Rule, and tax reapportionment. The series also contains files on numerous prominent individuals.

Bound volumes of The Monitor (1914-70), pamphlets, leaflets, flyers (1958-66, 1976-78), reprints from The Monitor (1963-65), Legislative Brief (1977-79), Bulletin (1978-79), This Week from the Capital (1978-79), Insight, (1979).

Many of the local items of study the LWVAC took on dealt with the Albany County Government and its departments and are included in this series. The majority of this series is made of material related to the Albany County Charter revision in 1973 and again in 1993. There are Albany County Charter Revision Committee meeting minutes, press releases, and public hearing testimony by members of the LWVAC. The Albany County Legislature was another focus of the LWVAC; the group lobbied for and against certain county issues in the 1970s and 1990s. Also in this series are the guides to Albany County the LWVAC published. Spotlight on Albany County was first published in 1955. The subsequent This is Albany County was published in 1968, 1971, 1980, and 1996.

This series contains records of the committees of the Capital District chapter of ASPA. Many of the records are not the official committee records but rather the retained records of members of the committees. The one apparent exception is the records of the Long Range Planning Committee, which include minutes of committee meetings and which were divided by type into individual folders. Some of the committees are represented by only one folder, but other committees (apparently with more duties or members) have larger files--the Awards Committee, the Membership Committee, and the Training and Professional Development Committee.

Drafts and texts of lectures; notes; reading lists; clippings and background materials.

FRB's lecture notes and writings on various subjects; writings by others; items in Chinese.