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Insights and tidbits from the state Capitol

Morning briefing

May
30

N.Y. Chief Judge Judith Kaye gets some ammo in her fight for a judicial pay raise.

Gov. Spitzer wants panel to build a better SUNY.

Hecklers razzed Guiliani about 9/11 attacks during a campaign swing. And in Monroe County, Congressman Randy Kuhl got an earful from folks upset about his Iraq war votes.

The Legislature gave final passage to a bill to increase penalties for human trafficking.

The Assembly passed a measure that would effectively kill the state’s ticket-scalping law.

A government watchdog group, in a bit of surprise, backs a Republican to fill an open Assembly seat.

Finally, check out this quirky one: the Adirondack Park Agency says a houseboat is legal—unless it is moored.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 at 10:28 am by Yancey Roy.
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Jay GallagherJay 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 MatthewsCara 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.

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