Free Republic

ALBANY, April 4 — New York State is getting its first fish pathologist. A million dollars is going to jump-start the effort to provide cellphone service along a major highway in the Adirondacks where a Brooklyn man died, unable to get a signal. And the state’s dairy farmers will get $30 million to help them recover from a bad year. There are eight million stories buried in Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s first state budget, which was passed last weekend as the governor squared off with Republicans in the State Senate over education aid to suburban districts and with the health care...