Morning briefing
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- September
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At its third meeting on Troopergate, the Senate Investigations Committee voted to issue subpoenas to state officials who refuse to attend willingly. First in line could be Acting State Police Superintendent Preston Felton, who declined an invitation to the meeting yesterday. Felton said in a letter that he was waiting for the Ethics Commission (now the Commission on Public Integrity) to complete its probe of Troopergate. The scandal involved aides to Gov. Eliot Spitzer gathering and releasing details of Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno’s use of state aircraft.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday that he was launching an investigation of social networking Web site Facebook, saying undercover investigators posing as children were solicited by sexual predators.
The state Thruway Authority may have to raise tolls 20 percent over four years because higher-than-expected gas prices have slowed traffic growth.
In Putnam County, at least 200 people protested the county executive’s proposed 40-percent budget increase. State Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Patterson, hosted the protest.
Monroe County finds itself in familiar fiscal trouble and has to close an annual budget gap of about $50 million.
Nassau County is considering a law to bar anyone under 18 from buying cough medicines, which are often abused by youngsters.
The president of Iran stirred controversy at Columbia University last night, where he said the Holocaust should be treated as theory, not fact, and that there are no homosexuals in his country.
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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. 
