ALBANY, June 24 - State lawmakers on Friday passed a plan to intensify oversight of New York's scandal-plagued public authorities, whose multibillion-dollar operations have long operated with little scrutiny. Their move to shine more light on the authorities, which have emerged as a shadow government in the state and have faced allegations of favoritism and corruption, capped the last day of a session dominated by efforts to overhaul the workings of Albany in response to growing outcries about a dysfunctional state government. The plan calls for creating an inspector general's post as well as an outside budget office. The first...