* How many Senate Finance Committee hearings will Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen be attending next session now that Kathy Sgambati--whose ungraceful departure as deputy HHS commissioner he helped engineer--is a member of the panel?
* Why on earth would the George Pataki-Meridian Communications marriage end up as an amicable separation?
* Not giving Ted Gatsas a plum committee assign merit may backfire on the Senate Dems when they realize the ki