Morning briefing
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Now that Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s plan to give drivers’ licenses to illegal immigrants is dead, opponents of the plan want some loose ends tied up—namely they want the governor to recall about 23,000 licenses issued to legal foreign visitors that did not have a temporary visitor label.
The governor’s popularity dipped to a new low as a result of the drivers’ license controversy, a boon to the Republican Party but the field of potential candidates to replace Spitzer is sparse.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo spoke to a packed house in White Plains last night about potential abuse and fraud, student debt and other issues of concern to the public.
Several State University of New York campuses avoided hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential fines from the federal Environmental Protection Agency by fixing problems on their own.
New York State tax officials are alleging that Yankee Derek Jeter claimed on his taxes for several years that he lived in Florida rather than New York City to avoid paying city and state income taxes.
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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. 
