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There was hope yesterday that Gov. Eliot Spitzer, legislative leaders and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg would reach a deal about permitting the city to charge extra for vehicles traveling into Manhattan business districts during work hours. Nothing was announced yesterday, but negotiations continue today.
The state is going to be seeking refunds from businesses that accepted tax breaks in exchange for promising to create jobs, but didn’t do so.
The state has started mailing information about how homeowners can apply for property-tax rebates this year.
New York is making $1 million in economic-development funds available to communities within the 6 million-acre Adirondack Park.
As part of an ongoing investigation into possible mishandling of state pension fund investments, state and Albany County investigators are investigating the demotion of a top deputy during disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi’s term.
First responders at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks may get improved workers’ compensation benefits. The Senate this week overrode Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s veto of legislation to do that, and the Assembly could do the same when it returns later this year.
Prison towns in counties that that count prison inmates (who don’t vote) as constituents unfairly boost their political clout, a study released yesterday found.
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, a Democratic candidate for president, said she would reverse the Bush administration’s “global gag order” against federal funding for clinics that provide advice on contraception and abortion on her first day in office.
A songwriter in Katonah, Westchester County, has written a piece protesting Martha Stewart’s trademark application for a line of furniture and home-decor products named after the tony hamlet where she has an estate.
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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. 
