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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Spitzer pledges more economic help for Buffalo
Eliot Spitzer showed his populist side for an appreciative union crowd Thursday in West Seneca, alluding to his record of corporate crackdowns as attorney general and pledging more economic help for Buffalo if he wins the race for governor.
Of Buffalo’s fiscal problems, he said that “New York state […]

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Bruno criticizes Faso’s dismal view of upstate economy - Newsday.com
ALBANY, N.Y. — Republican Senate leader Joseph Bruno on Thursday criticized comments by his party’s candidate for governor, John Faso, who has joined his Democrat opponents in painting a dismal view of the upstate economy while blaming Albany.
In a televised forum Wednesday, Faso said upstate cities […]

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WNY residents fed up with state government
Poll finds area residents far more disgusted than other New Yorkers
When a Rochester think tank asked thousands of New Yorkers this spring how they viewed state government, it found an overwhelming number are plain mad at the ways of Albany.
But in Western New York, respondents to the poll are […]

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HOW LOW WILL DEL MONTE GO?
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Last week, state Rep. Francine Del Monte chose to scrape the bottom of the political barrel, attacking her opponent Gary Parenti for accepting a campaign contribution from the founder of Niagara County’s most successful plumbing company, John Gross.
She characterized John as an […]

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Each claims to be a reformer
Spitzer, the unanimous choice of party leaders, says he’ll take on state government with the same zeal and fearlessness he displayed in prosecuting investment fraud.
But Suozzi, who forced the primary by collecting thousands of signatures from registered Democrats around the state, says he’s the only one with executive experience, turning […]

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LAWMAKERS FOR RENT - New York Post Online Edition: Postopinion
Such is the culture of corruption
Queens Democratic Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin has stepped aside as the salaried president of the Central Labor Council, the million-member umbrella group for organized labor in New York City, after being named as the target of a federal bid-rigging probe.
Officials said he’s […]

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