Top Cuomo aide quits

07/08/11 Shane Dixon Kavanaugh - Steven Cohen, who has been Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top aide since January and worked relentlessly behind the scenes to legalize same-sex marriage, will leave his post in the administration, Mr. Cuomo announced Friday. He will be replaced by Lawrence Schwartz, a senior adviser to the governor and former secretary to Gov. David Paterson. Though Albany insiders have been ...

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Is a Ban on Smoking While Driving on Its Way?

07/12/11 Smoking is already banned in restaurants, bars, and other public places and if a New York City Lawmaker and a powerful cancer fighting organization have their way, it could be banned in vehicles as well. The American Cancer Society wants a law that would fine New Yorkers who smoke and drive with kids under 14 in the car to be proposed a third time.

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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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