A good beginning and this follows perfectly with the last two articles.
Reviving New York - The New York Sun
Reviving New York
For three terms or the last 12 years, Governor Pataki’s administrations have produced little more than statewide economic stagnation. Some critics might even say these years produced retrogression.
If spending is one criterion of administrative drift, […]

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This is sickening.
Silver tops leaders with $7 million in `pork’
ALBANY, N.Y. State records show Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver directed almost 7-point-5 (m) million dollars in pork-barrel spending this year to programs back home.
That makes the Manhattan Democrat tops in the Assembly and Senate in dolling out 170 (m) million dollars in the so-called member item […]

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In WNY the majority of our financial problems have their route in Albany, most of the blame clearly lies in their hands yet we continue to vote the same reps back to fix what they broke. Will anything change on day one? Doubtful unless of course there is a change in the leadership and […]

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INSIGHT
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”
—Aesop
“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”
—William Faulkner
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
—Albert […]

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FYI
Budget Information
Erie County 2007 Budget: PROPOSED
* Book A - Operating Funds (61 MB)
* Book B - Special Funds (50.9 MB)
* Message and Summary (43 MB)

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This one sentence just jumps out at me with a scream…. Now not voting the for the sales tax increase is irresponsible.. NO, what is irresponsible is your lack of backbone to look inward and see how the legislature has failed their job and as my former opponent, you have aligned yourself with the irresponsible […]

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INSIGHT
“Upon our material well-being must be built a superstructure of individual and national life in accordance with the laws of the highest morality, or else our prosperity itself will in the long run turn out a curse instead of a blessing. We should be both reverently thankful for what we have received, and earnestly bent […]

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More distressing news about manufacturing in this country. We have become a nation of forgein products and virtually nothing is made here anylonger. So much for the successes of NAFTA, GATT and all those stupid treaties. Yes call me a protectionist, I despise all the products that have flooded this country, as far as I […]

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Archiving these articles..
Grand Island Record -
VIDEO: No toll future?
Sam Hoyt and Rus Thompson talk about a Grand Island without tolls
By Joe Kissel
For islander and veteran conservative challenger Rus Thompson, the Nov. 7 state assembly election is about nothing less than saving New York’s soul.
“Albany is broken,” he said. “Politics in New York state is […]

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Signatures total online and paper are currently 2725 and growing fast.
Petition to Remove Grand Island Tolls Gains Momentum
wbfo NewsRoom
Eileen Buckley
Listen to the audio.
GRAND ISLAND, NY (2006-11-27) Western New Yorkers continue to respond to a petition that calls for an end to Grand Island tolls. A couple of weeks ago we told you about a […]

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