One Way To Spend A Salary
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- March
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From AP:
A state lawmaker is donating his salary to nonprofit groups in his Albany-area district for the third straight year.
Assemblyman Bob Reilly, a Democrat from the Albany suburb of Colonie, announced Thursday he was donating this year’s entire after-tax salary of $73,000 to groups in northern Albany and southern Saratoga Counties.
Since becoming an assemblyman in 2005, Reilly’s salary donations have totaled more than $218,000.
The 68-year-old Reilly, who retired from the state Education Department, says he donates his salary so people will think better of their government.
As an assemblyman, he makes a base salary of nearly $80,000.
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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. 
