Last Thursday, Gov. Eliot Spitzer revealed two new initiatives designed to improve the state’s ability to alert the public in case of emergency and to respond to natural and man-made disasters. NY-ALERT will provide National Weather Service bulletins, advisories on road closures and other emergency information to select groups via email, fax, text message and dial-out voice messages. The program’s website (www.nyalert.gov) allows Average Joes to receive the alerts so you can feel like your life is worth saving, too. NY-DELIVERS will form new partnerships between state agencies and private sector representatives to support current emergency response programs. Both plans are expected to be operating within 60 days. The announcement coincided with Sen. Charles Schumer’s renewed appeal for more anti-terror funding to be allocated to the city. Authorities thwarted a four-man terrorist attack against JFK airport just one day later, prompting Spitzer to say, “We have to expand our awareness that there is a new kind of terror that is homegrown, indigenous, less sophisticated, but harder to track down.”