Push To Remove Grand Island Tolls Begins
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Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - The successful campaign to remove commuter tolls on Interstate 190 has spawned an effort to have them taken down on the Grand Island Bridges.
Activist Rus Thompson, who recently ran for state assembly, has launched a second […]

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Found another article. Hoyt just does not have a clue.
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal Online - FIGHTING TOLLS: Man fights for removing fees on Grand Island bridges
By Joseph Kissel / ngedit@gnnewspaper.com
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
GRAND ISLAND — “There will be no more tolls on the Grand Island bridges,” Rus Thompson said at Town Hall on Monday.
“I’m making […]

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There are a few issues to respond to from this article and another that was in the Grand Island Record this weekend.
Real brief,,,, to the question of where will the revenus come from from the loss of the tolls?
Why does the thruway authority have anything to do with the canal system? Save $110 million […]

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I am so glad to see more of the media picking this up, at this posting time there is over 2000 signatures in the online petition and I have over 700 hand written signatures. There is paper petitions out at 15 different places on Grand Island so there is more signatures out there.
The more the […]

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Authorities and legislative leaders are personally driving us so far into debt it will take mu grand children to get us out. When in Gods name will it end?
Once again, we have got to get these authorities under control, how about a Federal Control board takes over Albany and it’s budget process. I know, it […]

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50 Billion in debt from the authorities and they want 6 billion more. Yet they will not be held accountable from us, the taxpaying citizens of this state. We have no control over what they do and how they do it. These beasts must be stopped.
On day one, everything changes… OK Eliot, we will be […]

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no comment….
Day one, item one - Newsday.com
Court ruling on school finance gives Spitzer a golden opportunity to resolve one of NY’s most intractable problems
November 26, 2006
If it’s better to be lucky than good, then it’s best to be lucky and good. Take Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer and his bold pledges to solve the state’s most pressing […]

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Under paid??? How about the best do nothing job you ever had. Most of these guys are lawyers have another job too. Raise my foot. Once you prove to the people of NY that you are capable od doing your job and are not just puppets for others, then come and ask. Right now? I […]

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This is going to get heated again and we will see what this new class of legislators is all about. When I see 200,000 in pork and the creation of more than 300 jobs, I see them going in the absolute wrong direction. Election season is coming for these people.
Locklear Joins Erie County Republicans in […]

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What is the hold up, that is all I want to know. Why can’t the assembly come up with some sort of agreement…? I should say, why can’t Sheldon Silver, the assembly members are really irrevelant, they still don’t have a voice.
Will things change on day one of the Spitzer reign? only time will tell.
Focus […]

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