New report on state spending
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- October
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 Ever wonder what the “core mission’’ of state government is? If so, today is your lucky day!
Gov. Paterson’s Budget Division today released a tome lining out just how every state agency spends its money and how it relates to that organization’s prime responsibilities.
“For years, state-government spending has increased at an exponential rate without a fundamental reevaluation of how taxpayer money is being spent,’’ Paterson said. “In our current fiscal crisis, we simply cannot continue this kind of budgetary inertia.’‘Â He said the report will help him and other state leaders where to cut spending next year, when the state is facing a potential deficit of more than $12 billion. Here’s the link:
http://www.budget.state.ny.us/budgetFP/coreMissionBudgeting/coreMissionBudgeting08.html
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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. 
