Proposed Law Would Help Police Spot Sex Offenders Easier
Republican Assembly Leader Jim Tedisco is proposing a law that would make it easier for police in New York to spot sex offenders.
The bill would allow officers to see if a suspect is a registered sex offender when they run a license plate check.
Right now, the […]

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Free Buffalo Media Advisory–Bass Pro
Free Buffalo was born in opposition to using vast amounts of public funds to subsidize the Bass Pro project.
We have issued a number of studies and reports on this subject. Subsequent events have confirmed much of what we said. For example: there was no deal; Bass Pro wasn’t spending […]

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Democrat & Chronicle: Editorials
Albany - misplaced anger?
Senate leader should do more to fix the upstate economy
(September 4, 2006) — On this Labor Day, too few upstate New Yorkers, particularly those in the Rochester region, have jobs to return to tomorrow.
Going after people who draw attention to upstate’s economic woes, the way that Senate Majority Leader […]

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Costly Promises
The Reckoning Upstate
This is the fourth article in a series examining actions of state and local governments that have left taxpayers with large unpaid bills for public employee pensions. The series focuses on ways in which pension funds have been shortchanged by government officials even as they have sought to enhance benefits for groups […]

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Cost of Pensions Adds to Factory Town’s Troubles
LOCKPORT, N.Y. — For two and a half years, Michael Tucker was mayor of this small city by day and an autoworker by night.
Then in May, he became one of the nearly 50,000 workers at General Motors or its former Delphi parts division to take buyouts, lured by […]

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