Another week in Albany

The holiday (not Groundhog Day) is over. After a weekend away from hourly check-ins with the news and blogs from Albany, we’re back. Seems like they never left. While we were away, state senators had more quick “extraordinary” sessions, again without debating or acting on any bills. Our reporter Karen DeWitt e-mailed this morning, sketching out her schedule for the next few days (she has vacation scheduled next week…). Who knows what will happen, or not happen before then? As she wrote, “I can’t believe this is still going on, it’s summer, for God’s sake…”
The NY Post’s Fred Dicker had a particularly gloomy take yesterday on the Senate stalemate, from his particularly longtime-insider perspective. Not for the faint of heart, even among political junkies. “I give up,” he wrote.