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The people won in Albany with passage of consolidation bill

Taxpayers, rise. You had a big victory last night in Albany. The State Senate approved legislation, already passed by the Assembly, that streamlines the process for eliminating those layers of local governments, barnacled with patronage, that may no longer be worth the cost. This effort to reduce the size of government started in 1935 but was finally driven home by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo....

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