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Groups that want to run the state’s thoroughbred-racing tracks made their pitches to a government panel yesterday, and two more will do so today.
While that was going on in Albany, Gov. Eliot Spitzer continued his “Bringing the Budget Home” tour across the state, traveling to Binghamton and Rochester.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has been making the rounds too. He stopped in Albany yesterday to talk about problems with benefits for fallen firefighters and police officers.
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards will be deep in the territory of one of his rivals for the 2008 nomination, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., as he follows a nursing assistant for the day in Mamaroneck, in Hillary’s home county of Westchester. Barack Obama, another presidential hopeful, said he raised at least $700,000 in his fundraising sweep through New York this week.
Will plastic supermarket bags become a thing of the past for New York? A Brooklyn assemblyman hopes so.
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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. 
