AP Analysis: Albany session coasts to a close
By Michael Gormley
Associated Press
ALBANY — New York's 2012 legislative session coasted to a stop Thursday and voters will hear a lot about it during this fall's legislative elections. Voters will hear how orderly it was and how it avoided long nights of tense, closed-door negotiations and messy floor debates of past years.
Legislators will point to the two-year session noting several accomplishments, many of them fitting the Albany term of "half a loaf" for falling short of the hype. But several were truly landmarks, including the legalizing same-sex marriage, capping the growth in property taxes, and the formation this year of a new agency to protect the disabled in state care.