No doubt, Mitt Romney is happy with the results of yesterday's republican primary here in New York.

But, the extremely low turnout and the extremely high cost of the election have some officials upset.

$25 million, that was the cost to taxpayers statewide. Only about six per cent of eligible republican voters showed up to vote.  And we have three more elections this year alone

In Rensselaer County the turnout was just over 6% election inspectors had very little to do

The chairman of the Rensselaer County Legislature said yesterday's primary cost taxpayers $40,000,

The cost in Albany county $200,000 and the cost in Schenectady county $45,000 and there is still two more primaries one in June, the other in September.

This is all because state lawmakers could not agree on a single date for congressional and state races taxpayers will suffer

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Charles Schumer has introduced an amendment to protect Door to Door postal delivery to rural communities.

The current bill before the senate would have created apartment style mailboxes farther away from homes. Senator Schumer is pushing for the postal service to enact a moratorium for two years on the closure of anymore rural Post Offices.

As written the postal reform bill would have pushed the USPS to stop delivering mail to individual doors and mail boxes and instead install apartment style group boxes where all of the mail for a given street or neighborhood would be delivered.

The area post offices currently on the block are Coeymans Hollow, North Blenheim, South Bethlehem, North Hoosick, and North Hudson.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The New York Assembly plans to hold a series of hearings on raising the state's minimum wage to $8.50 an hour next year.
    
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assemblyman Keith Wright, who chairs the Labor Committee, have introduced legislation to raise the hourly minimum from $7.25 and index it to inflation.
    
Silver says the hearings are the next step in the process and communities need to speak up.
    
Hearings are scheduled April 23 in Manhattan, April 24 in Syracuse and May 11 in Buffalo.
    
The minimum wage was set in 2007 at $7.15 in New York and two years later raised by 10 cents with the federal minimum wage.
    
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and 15 other states have higher rates.
    
Business opponents say it will increase their costs.