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New York’s highest court upheld former Comptroller Alan Hevesi decision to invalidate a $46 million state-highway construction contract with a company that allegedly had organized crime ties.
For the second time in 8 months, a court has said former Gov. George Pataki erred when he tried to keep sex offenders locked up even after their criminal sentences. The decision doesn’t set the convicts free; it mandates they be given a hearing to determine if they can be released.
As expected, the Democrat won a special Assembly election in Manhattan.
Gov. Spitzer named some Democrat heavyweights to the SUNY board.
Despite a push from Spitzer, the Senate appears unlikely to go along with a plan to provide paid family leave.
Spot inspections show that 1 in 6 schools surveyed did not properly secure Regents tests and answer keys.
A report questioning the effectiveness of large-scale dredging apparently won’t impact dredging of the upper Hudson River.
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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. 
