Reform Advocates Want TV Ad Campaign

ALBANY -- A prominent New York state senator urged business leaders Monday to launch a grassroots campaign for workers' compensation reform that underscores the link between inefficiencies of the current system and upstate plant closings. Business groups need to "frame the issue in the 21st century equivalent of the market square," including television ads, the Internet and newspapers, said Sen. Raymond Meier, R-Utica. "The days are gone when you could do it by walking the halls of the Capitol and having polite little discussions with state legislators," Meier told business and insuran...