Why take on Spitzer? Faso, Suozzi point to Long Island — Newsday.com
ALBANY, N.Y. — Republican John Faso and Democrat Tom Suozzi are 50 percentage points behind front-runner Eliot Spitzer in the race for governor. Both trailed Spitzer by $15 million in the latest fundraising reports. Each was opposed by his party’s top bosses.
So why continue […]

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Mohan Says Corruption On Town Board
Saturday, June 10, 2006 02:52 PM - WBEN Newsroom
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - Amherst Town Supervisor Satish Mohan says power and corruption has led to law breaking by some town board members. He says that the board members have been hiring more town employees, even though it breaks the town […]

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WBEN 930 : Apprenticeship Law Vetoed
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - It was not surprising to area construction leaders when they learned Erie County Executive Joel Giambra vetoed the apprenticeship law Friday afternoon. The law would have required all workers on county projects to complete a state-certified apprenticeship program.
Dan Boody of the Buffalo Building and Construction Trades […]

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Leaders Fight Plans to Make Them Pay for Police Protection
(Erie County, NY, June 9, 2006) - - Town and Village leaders from across Erie County are fighting plans to make them pay for police protection. Grand Island received a payment request from the county for the cost of sheriff’s road patrol services for three […]

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County Presses For “Wal Mart” Health Insurance Law
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - Erie County is going after “big box” retailers who fail to provide heatlh care for their employees.
The Erie County legsislature approved a resolution Thursday, trying to get figures on county costs, specifically stemming from medicaid recipients who work at low paying jobs.
“80 percent of […]

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New York State Legislature Is Fundamentally Rotten
(Editor’s Note: This letter was sent to State Senator Michael Balboni and State Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli and is printed here with the writer’s permission.)
I believe New York State is heading toward a fiscal crisis largely a result of state legislature regarded as the worst in the nation. The upstate […]

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Money raised by school district stolen from safe
NORTH COLLINS, N.Y. Someone has stolen thousands of dollars raised for a cancer charity by a western New York school district.
That’s according to administrators at the North Collins School District, where dozens of students and even the superintendent shaved their heads for the “Goin’ Bald for Bucks” fund-raiser […]

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HOYT AND MAZIARZ ANNOUNCE BILL TO PROTECT LOW-COST POWER
Assemblyman Sam Hoyt (D – 144th Assembly District) and Senator George Maziarz (R – 62nd Senate District) will be joined by members of the Western New York Delegation, Andrew Rudnick, members of Power for Economic Prosperity, representatives of the local labor community, as well as companies […]

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Assembly Speaker Silver’s 30 Years Of Public Service
We are happy to note here that New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s 30 years of public service will be celebrated this week at a gala reception at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan.
The Jewish Press has proudly reported over the years on the achievements of this remarkable […]

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Lawyer: Cell phone law broke dangerous ground — Newsday.com
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The state’s cell phone ban could clear the way for laws against anything that causes accidents, from having a pet in the car to drinking coffee, warned a lawyer fighting to have the ban declared unconstitutional.
“This is a new kind of law,” James Ostrowski […]

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