UP-STATE OF CONFUSION ALBANY, ALBANY, ALBANY!

“America’s Funniest Statehouse,” Ellis Henican Column, amNew York, June 12, 2009
“These Albany people,” I was marveling Thursday, “they come straight from Central Casting.”
Randy Credico, who’s been working for years in the capital on drug-law reform, begged to differ.
“A couple of them,” he said, “come straight from Central Booking.”
But this being Albany, there’s a third opinion [...]

ALBANY ETHICS VACATION ALL EXPENSES PAID

“ETHICS TAKE A VACATION,” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, 6-5-09
Ethics delayed in Albany!
Honesty in government forced to wait!
Holy kickback, who would have expected
something like this?
Only someone who’d never driven within 100
miles of New York’s cozy state capital, where
legislators and lobbyists never, ever forget who’s
who. (Hint: The lobbyists pick up the tabs. The
legislators show their appreciation.)
If secret [...]