A limited ’statewide’ competition
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Senate Republicans this week touted what they called a “statewide’’ competition for school children to come up with ideas on how to encourage recycling and solid-waste reduction,with stories and displays.
More than 1300 students were at the Capitol this week to see displays and view the awards ceremony.
“These outstanding young people have shown a remarkable awareness and concern fore the environmental challenges facing our state and I know the entire community takes pride in their accomplishment, ‘’Sen. Steve Saland, R-Poughkeepsie, said of some award-winners from his district.
However, the contest wasn’t really “statewide.’’ Only children from Republican-controlled Senate districts could apply – only slightly more than half the state, since the GOP holds 30 seats and the Democrats 30.
“They can hold their own event,’’ Kris Thompson, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, said about the Democratic lawmakers when asked about the limited nature of the competition.
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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. 
