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Jay Gallagher

Jay GallagherJay 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 2 championships, the Yankees 0.

E-mail Jay Gallagher at jgallagh@gannett.com

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NJ edges NY for biggest tax burden

August
7

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   New York has been knocked off its perch as the state with the highest state and local taxes, according to a report released today.

New Jersey taxpayers now bear the heaviest burden – 11.8 cents for every dollar earned, a [...]

Posted by Jay Gallagher on August 7th, 2008 | Post a Comment »

New kind of ‘retail politics’

August
6

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Pollster John Zogby has come up with a new definition of “retail politics:” parsing how people may vote by where they shop.

Barack Obama does the best among Filene’s shoppers, with a 59 percent to 24 percent advantage over John McCain, [...]

Posted by Jay Gallagher on August 6th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

‘Three men in a room’ to reconvene next week

July
18

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 Gov. David Paterson plans to meet privately with legislative leaders next Thursday in New York City to talk about his plan to cap property taxes.

It will be the first time that new Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos will [...]

Posted by Jay Gallagher on July 18th, 2008 | 4 Comments »

State biz-tax revenues tumble

July
17

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Reflecting the weak economy, business-tax collections for the first quarter of the year were $453 million less than anticipated, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said today. Yet overall revenue was up, largely because of reimbursements from [...]

Posted by Jay Gallagher on July 17th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Still open in Albany

July
17

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  One thing hasn’t changed from the Spitzer to the Paterson administrations: the official marching orders for agency public-information officers are to be “helpful” and “transparent.’’

That was the message PR head Risa Heller delivered at a meeting of the agency flacks this week.

Such [...]

Posted by Jay Gallagher on July 17th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Make that check out to…

July
11

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  Mayor Clinton Young and state Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith will be
the big draws Sunday at a fundraiser honoring Devereaux Cannick as the new
chairman of the Mount Vernon Democratic party.
When the invitation was first posted on the party website, [...]

Posted by Jay Gallagher on July 11th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

NY-ers feeling sour about the economy

July
10

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Feeling pessimistic about your economic prospects, and those for the state? If so, you have plenty of company, according to a poll released today.

“It may sound like a broken record, but it’s true,’’ said Douglas Lonnstrom of the Siena [...]

Posted by Jay Gallagher on July 10th, 2008 | Post a Comment »

Assembly may have going-away gift for NYC mayor

July
9

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While some New York City business leaders are already moaning about the impending end (Dec. 31, 2009) of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s eight-year reign at City Hall, he won’t be missed by many Assembly Democrats, who found him [...]

Posted by Jay Gallagher on July 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

New best buddies: Paterson and Skelos

July
1

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The love-fest between new Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Gov. David Paterson apparently survived their first closed-door meeting.    The two leaders, joking about Paterson’s “seniority’’ over Skelos (Paterson became governor March 17, Skelos took over as majority leader June 24) [...]

Posted by Jay Gallagher on July 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Bruno hints he may quit soon

July
1

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   Former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno gave mixed signals today about whether he intends to resign from his seat before his term is up at the end of the year.

“I’m going to exit – the sooner the better,’’ Bruno said [...]

Posted by Jay Gallagher on July 1st, 2008 | 6 Comments »

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