I think this control board has been very generous with the county executive, reminds me of the Buffalo control board when they sent the cities budget back to the mayor over and over. When the mayor finally gave one that was acceptable it passed.
The city is getting back on track financially, the county is […]

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You’ve got to be kidding… We finally have a court that agrees that the way Judicial candidates were picked before is wrong and unconstitutional, now Spitzer wants to give the governor power to hand pick them….?
I don’t care if it’s a Republican or a Democrat that is governor, this is just plain wrong. It’s bad […]

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Governor’s Debate Review
by Julianne Thompson
Contributing writer
Come November, New York State will have a new governor, and Tuesday night’s debate at Depew High School offered two high quality candidates in Republican John Faso and Democrat primary challenger Tom Suozzi. Elliot Spitzer was conspiculously absent. Both men were wholly in agreement that the State Legislature is […]

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I went to the debate tonight and to be honest, I wish these two were the leading candidates. At least in November we would have a decent choice for governor.
Once again Spitzer blew off Western New York, once again he showed us he is above the rest of us, he sickens me. He is just […]

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Faso unveils Medicaid reform plan
If elected, Faso said his reform package would be based on core principles — among them, cracking down on fraudulent claims and improving efficiency.
Republican candidate for governor John Faso says he has a Medicaid reform plan that would save New York state taxpayers billions of dollars.
Faso said, “With these guidelines, Scott […]

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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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