Homeless construction worker calls for Stephens to debate Ball
BREWSTER — Amid the cheering and flag-waving at the Brewster Fire Department parade, one bedraggled man wielding a sign did his best to shift gears and politicize the festive atmosphere.
“I’m homeless!! Thanks to Willis!!! Willis debate Ball,” read the sign carried Thursday night by Francis Flandreau, referring […]

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City fumbled ferry oversight, leaving taxpayers awash in debt
Assemblymen Brian Kolb and Joseph Errigo
(July 30, 2006) — In 2004, New York state government made a multi-million-dollar investment in a project that was supposed to revolutionize our region.
Unfortunately, the high-speed ferry project never lived up to its promise and spiraled into financial disaster.
As the ferry project […]

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Hillary can’t hide
BILL CLINTON searches for redemption. Hillary Clinton searches for cover.
Is this any way to run a presidential campaign?
The senator from New York, who is an expected presidential candidate in 2008, treated the Democratic Leadership Council in Denver this week to a recycled campaign slogan: ”It’s the American dream, stupid,” Hillary Clinton told the […]

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SPITZER & SUOZZI: ABOVE THE LAW? - New York Post Online Edition: Postopinion
The Democratic gubernatorial debate Tuesday between Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi was a business-as-usual affair: Puffed-up reporters asking shallow questions, eliciting meaningless answers from the candidates.
How Spitzer managed to keep a straight face through it all - he’s […]

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SUFFOLK EYE ON ILLEGALS AP - New York Post Online Edition
Any businesses or groups doing business with Suffolk County would be required to submit an annual affidavit affirming that none of their employees are in the United States illegally under a proposal by the county executive.
The rule, suggested by County Executive Steve Levy, would be […]

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Legislator Cynthia Locklear to host a
Town Hall Style Meeting
With Candidate for N.Y. State Governor Thomas Suozzi
Erie County Legislator Cynthia E. Locklear is hosting a Town Hall style meeting with Tom Suozzi, who is one of the Democratic Candidates for Governor. Locklear will be introducing him to her Constituents on Wednesday August 2nd at […]

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County Control Board Demands Revised Four Year Plan
BUFFALO, NY (2006-07-27) The Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority is giving county officials 30 days to come up with a revised four-year fiscal recovery plan.
Board members say the current plan is not meeting expectations for cutting costs. They say they want to avoid a property tax increase.
Member […]

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Buffalo News - The best job upstate has to offer
By DONN ESMONDE
That seals it.
I’ve often pondered, if reincarnation is real, who or what I’d like to come back as. Rock star? Yankees center fielder? Jennifer Lopez’s divorce lawyer?
Reading reporter Matt Spina’s piece in Sunday’s News made up my mind. If there is a second time […]

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INSIGHT
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.” —Oliver Goldsmith
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.” —Benjamin Disraeli
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led […]

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Perspective
One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip
to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live.
They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.
On their return from their trip, the father […]

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