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By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
 New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
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By Jimmy Vielkind, Times Union (Albany)
Republican State Chairman Ed Cox will stand beside Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy today as the Democrat renounces his party and publicly kicks off his campaign for the GOP gubernatorial nomination.
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Party-switcher roils New York race
By Michael Howard Saul, The Wall Street Journal
The entrance of Steve Levy, a Democrat turning Republican, into the New York governor's race threw the contest for the Republican nomination into flux, with some calling the Suffolk County executive the GOP's best hope for victory and others fearing he will splinter the party.
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Lazio goes after new challenger in governor's race
By Jeremy W. Peters and David M. Halbfinger, The New York Times
The campaign for the Republican nomination for governor was blown wide open on Thursday as the party's presumptive frontrunner, Rick A. Lazio, lost key support after a last-minute entry into the race by a conservative Long Island Democrat.
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Paterson claims he was article's source
By Danny Hakim and Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times
In a radio town hall appearance this morning in New York City, Gov. David A. Paterson claimed that he was the one who first told the news media that he had talked to a woman involved in a domestic violence complaint against one of his top aides.
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Tell-all offensive offering defense
By The Associated Press, Times Union (Albany)
Gov. David Paterson said Thursday that he was the first to reveal a conversation he had with a woman at the center of a domestic violence scandal, the second consecutive day the once-silent governor defended his actions.
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A flurry of calls after a Paterson aide's domestic dispute
By Danny Hakim and William K. Rashbaum, The New York Times
The dispute had ended, and his companion had called 911, saying she had been a victim of domestic violence. Sometime before 10 p.m. on Oct. 31, David W. Johnson left the Bronx apartment he shared with the woman and began making a series of phone calls.
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NY's health coverage plunges
By Carl Campanile, New York Post
The number of New York state residents receiving health insurance through private-sector employers has plummeted by 500,000, a new study has found.
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Bid to thwart Medicaid fraud
By Carl Campanile, New York Post
State Senate Republicans yesterday proposed restoring extensive background checks to deter fraud in New York's $52 billion Medicaid program.
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Cuomo probes pension 'spiking'
By Gina Chon, The Wall Street Journal
New York became the latest state to shine a light on the practice of pension "spiking"—big increases in a government worker's salary just before retirement to boost the lifelong pension payout.
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Sweet exit kiss?
By Rick Karlin, Times Union (Albany)
Saratoga County has come under Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's pension microscope, with the state's top lawyer including it on a list of 28 government entities that appear to have unusually high pension costs.
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Despite gains, charter school is told to close
By Trip Gabriel, The New York Times
Accountability is a mantra of the charter school movement. Students sign pledges at some schools to do their homework, and teachers owe their jobs to students' gains on tests. But as New York State moves to shut down an 11-year-old charter school in Albany, whose test scores it acknowledges beat the city's public schools last year, it is apparent that holding schools themselves accountable is not always so easy, or bloodless, as numbers on a page
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Refund-amentally flawed fiscal state
By Fredric U. Dicker and Carl Campanile, New York Post
Amid new warnings that the state's finances are worsening, Gov. Paterson has decided to delay income-tax refunds for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers for at least two more weeks, officials said yesterday.
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State audit finds area ethic codes OK
By Jill Terreri, Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester)
The city of Rochester, Monroe County and the town of Greece do not have provisions in their codes of ethics relating to relatives who work together, but do not appear to have significant weaknesses in their ethics practices. The findings were included in the release of 31 audits of municipalities and their practices around ethics, conducted by the Office of the State Comptroller.
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Protecting public safety while helping parolees
By Brendan J. Lyons, Times Union (Albany)
State parole officials defended their agency's practices during a Senate hearing that focused on whether parolees who repeatedly violate rules such as drug use are left on the streets.
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More hearings sought on Great Lakes levels
By Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A coalition of environmental groups worried about dropping water levels on Lakes Michigan and Huron is asking the U.S. and Canadian governments to expand a planned series of public hearings on the issue.
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U.S. Supreme Court may rule on Asian carp case
By Nathan Hurst, The Detroit News
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court could decide as early as today if it will consider a lawsuit filed by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox seeking immediate closure of the locks near Chicago to keep the invasive Asian carp out of Lake Michigan.
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An alternative to 'alternative' assets
By Gina Chon, The Wall Street Journal
Public pensions are increasingly asking a question that has haunted investors since the financial crisis: When is an alternative investment really more of the same?
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GOP plots strategies to nullify health bill
By Naftali Bendavid, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—Republicans are looking beyond Sunday's expected vote on the Democrats' health-care overhaul to focus on strategies for striking back should it pass, ranging from challenges to the measure by individual states to a national repeal campaign.
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