USATODAY.com - Gore isn’t quite as green as he’s led the world to believe
Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a “carbon-neutral lifestyle.” To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. “Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb,” warns the website for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. “We have just […]

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PoughkeepsieJournal.com - N.Y. Republicans look at Medicaid problems
Billions are wasted each year through mismanagement, waste and outright fraud in the Medicaid system. The challenge is how to prevent the fraud and waste, and go after people and companies who abuse the system.
That was the message of a panel of Republican assemblymen and software makers who […]

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Senate failing to fix state campaign finance
We share your frustration with the failure of Albany to enact meaningful campaign finance reform (”Only in New York,” Aug. 1 editorial). The Brennan Center’s finding that state’s campaign finance law is a disgrace is consistent with every independent analysis of the system. We disagree; the state Assembly is […]

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This comparisson is just to good not to bring over here to show all of you. Thank you to Cindy Locklear for doing this very informative post..
Inside Out » Side By Side Comparison on Upstate Issues
Side By Side Comparison on Upstate Issues
On the issues:
Issue: Wicks Law (requires multiple contracts for most public […]

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Crap-Tacular Spitzer Commercial
Written by BuffaloWatchdog
Buffalo, NY - As the days creep closer and closer to the Democratic primary between Eliot Spitzer and Tom Suozzi, I can’t help becoming more and more disenfranchised with Eliot Spitzer and the Democratic Party in NYS. This latest run of commercials from Spitzer has officially […]

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Free New York Blog
We already know that the average U.S. worker is taxed higher than a medieval serf, and New Yorkers are plundered far more than the average modern worker.
The centralization of power in Washington and Albany has resulted in the greatest amount of plunder, as is evident in the shameful spending practices of legislatures […]

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INSIGHT
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” —Marcus Aurelius
“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” —Albert Einstein
“All big things in […]

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Full text of Press Conference is available here..

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The Cost of Health Insurance in NYS
by Scott Miller
Senator Seward and esteemed members of the Insurance Committee, thank you for providing this forum to discuss the various forces that are driving up the cost of health insurance. My name is Scott Miller and I am the owner and president of Miller Printing & Litho in […]

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New York’s property taxes are too high.
New York’s property taxes are too high. Albany and localities are both to blame
by Robert B. Ward,
Almost everyone knows by now that New York’s taxes are too high. Where, exactly?
One major problem, certainly, is our heavy property-tax burden. The latest Census figures show property taxes in New York […]

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