Doing more with more
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- November
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With the state’s finances in tatters, the state government is looking to become more efficient, and it is urging local governments to do more with less also.
But at least those analyzing the fiscal problems seem to be thriving.
Six different financial staffs this week presented their opinions on the state’s fiscal prospects for next year: the governor’s, the comptroller’s and minority and majority staffs for both the Assembly and Senate. Their differences were not dramatic.
The practice varies from Washington, where a Congressional Budget Office provides technical support for both house of Congress for lawmakers of both parties.
But in hyper-partisan New York, each party in each house wants their own figures.
“In Albany, there’s no such thing as just numbers. There are Republican numbers, Democratic numbers, Senate numbers and Assembly numbers,’’ one insider said.
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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. 
