Legislature costs too much, achieves too little

07/16/11 Those who live by the credo 'you get what you pay for' might be surprised by The Sunday Journal News report, 'The Platinum Legislature,' the first in a series by our Albany Bureau. The articles reveal, in great detail, what the state Legislature costs New Yorkers in dollars and cents. The numbers, startling by almost any measure, seem to have an inverse relationship to what actually gets ...

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For Paul it's love love me I do

07/18/11 WEDDINGS. We speak weddings. If not pooped from Yankee Stadium concertizing, Sir Beatle McCartney marries longtime ladyfriend New Yorker Nancy Shevell, come fall. In London...

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Hudson River National Park proposal reintroduced

07/20/11 ALBANY, N.Y. Congressman Maurice Hinchey and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand have reintroduced legislation proposing a national park designation for the Hudson River Valley from Fort Edward in Washington County to southern Westchester County.

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