What to Tiki, Damon and Grannis have in common?
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Pete Grannis isn’t exactly on the same page about environmental issues as power-plant operators. He acknowledged that at the start of a speech to the Independent Power Producers in Saratoga Springs earlier this week. “There are some people who think that the DEC commissioner speaking to power prooducers is like Tiki Barber doing the toast at Tom Coughlin’s retirement party,’’ he said, referring to the former New York Giants football star who has been critical of Coughlin, the coach, “or Johnny Damon addressing the Boston Chamber of Commerce’ ’- a reference to the former Red Sox star who signed with the Yankees last year.
Not true, he said, since both sides want clean, reliable, safe energy for the state.
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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. 
