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Environmentalists said yesterday that New York’s program to cleanup contaminated sites is lax and polluted land is still a health danger even after it has been “cleaned.”
New York students’ scores improved in a periodic national assessment of math and reading proficiency.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s administration a forum yesterday to get input from business and community leaders on upstate economic development. Empire State Development Corp. is holding a total of seven sessions in different parts of upstate New York.
Spitzer threatened to sue the Bush administration yesterday for failing to cover crucial care for new immigrants, and for interfering in the state’s plan to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.
A task force led by Lt. Gov. David Patterson released findings yesterday about difficulties New York faces in developing renewable energy technologies.
Some people are questioning whether the background and ties of some nominees for the new state Commission on Public Integrity are appropriate to serve on the ethics panel because of some of the issues members may have to rule on.
A panel studying ways to reduce traffic congestion in busy parts of Manhattan held its first meeting yesterday. Fare and toll hikes, proposed by Mayor Mike Bloomberg, are under consideration.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear some New York cases in the coming term, which begins next week.
Two Rochester-area Special Olympians headed to Shanghai to compete in the 2007 World Summer Games received a special citation from the governor yesterday.
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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. 
