Legislature Doesn't Work Well -- Who Knew?

How we live here in Albany:

A university study finds Albany is still dysfunctional after all these years.

The nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law says New York's legislative committees are woefully weak and advance little original legislation. The center finds the committees hold almost no debates and few hearings, but simply approve overwhelmingly the measures allowed by each house's leaders.

The Brennan Center, in a report examining the state Senate and Assembly in 2006 and 2007, says the state's legislative process "remains broken." The center famously tagged New York's Legislature the most dysfunctional state legislative body in the nation in 2004.

Most of us didn't need a university study to confirm this, by the way.