New York State Assemblyman Sam Hoyt has been caught by the online news site PoliticsNY.net. He stands accused of having affairs with two different interns while serving in the State Assembly. Later reports from old media seem to show that they were adults, though still state employees.

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The East Rochester Volunteer Ambulance Corps has been in existence since 1938. We were incorporated as a New York membership corporation in 1949.
Up until about four or five years ago, the Corps had a contract with the Village of East Rochester to provide EMS and ambulance services to the Village. The Village discontinued the yearly [...]

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Well, the race for New York Comproller has shaped up into a contest.

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After I posted the original post about the Unsafe Cities Report, I began to wonder about the decades that the Democrats had controlled the mayor’s office in so many of the cities.

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Some years ago, a bright idea occurred to the city fathers of Rochester, New York. Why not find a way to increase tourism and commerce, and revitalize the lake front at the same time?
An angel spoke to Mayor Johnson, who was not a baboon at the time, in a dream. “Lo, I shall send you [...]

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The audit of the town of Gates puts the current administration is a very poor light.

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Fingers in the federal pie

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Mayor Nagin, the inept and failed mayor of New Orleans is playing all the cards he has, and it’s just one, the race card. You see, Katrina wouldn’t have been a disaster if it had been South Beach.
The mayoral election doesn’t seem to have gotten in to the failures surrounding Katrina, but Nagin’s opponent, Mitch [...]

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Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Abolitionist and Rochester icon Frederick Douglass once called the Republican Party “the party of freedom and progress.”
But these days, you usually don’t hear African Americans in Rochester espousing the same sentiment. Like most cities, Rochester is predominantly Democratic territory with a growing minority population. Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than a 3-to-1 [...]

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Shay, over at Dean’s World, draws a comparison between the efforts to allow Iraqis to vote overseas with the paucity of efforts to allow displaced New Orleans residents to vote for Mayor on April 22.
I understand her concerns. Iraqi law provided for the overseas voting. I’m not sure that there is any legal basis for [...]

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