[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] ALBANY — On a recent evening in the state’s capital, three lawmakers were discussing tax exemptions. That prompted Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou to interject: “Let’s talk, too, because I’m on the insurance committee.”The conversation, in the middle of the year’s budget negotiations, was hardly unusual. More unexpected was the location: Ms. Niou’s bed, where the three women were perched, in their shared apartment about two miles west of the State Capitol. State legislators have long shared lodging and ideas during their weekly pilgrimages to Albany, often taking adjoining rooms at local hotels or even buying neighboring apartments in a single co-op.

Source: New York Times March 18, 2019 17:48 UTC