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Early Addition: Albany Republicans could have to choose between their lucrative side hustles and elected office
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Published Mar 20, 2025
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where people are buying mystery stuff.
Here's what else is happening:
- Dozens of Republican state lawmakers who bring in up to $750,000 a year in outside income are still fighting a state law limiting paid side gigs for legislators. If an appeals court rules against them, will Albany see a mass exodus of Republicans?
- The six-member board considering whether to accept the Trump Organization's bid for control of Wollman Rink will likely take into account the company's 2022 tax fraud conviction.
- New York: Not a city of closet space.
- I-80 in New Jersey got another sinkhole.
- You, too, can learn to detect notes of vanilla in a previously inscrutable glass of wine.
- New Frick is open.
- I could see Belle and Sebastian's "Piazza, New York Catcher" going all the way in this 21st Century New York City Songs Bracket.
- Scientists say "dark energy, the mysterious force powering the expansion of the universe, appears to be weakening."
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