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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Local'
Government As Thief
September 27th, 2007 · Comments Off
Tags: Commentary · East Rochester Ambulance · Local · Original writing · Politics
NY Comptroller
November 6th, 2006 · Comments Off
Well, the race for New York Comproller has shaped up into a contest.
Tags: Commentary · Local · Original writing · Politics
Unsafe Cities and Politics
October 31st, 2006 · Comments Off
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.
Tags: Commentary · Crime and Punishment · Local · Original writing · Politics
Moderately Fast Ferry
July 28th, 2006 · Comments Off
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 [...]
Tags: Americas North Shore · Commentary · Local · Original writing · Politics · Rochester New York
Gates Audit
June 22nd, 2006 · 1 Comment
The audit of the town of Gates puts the current administration is a very poor light.
Tags: American Politics · Analysis · Local · Original writing · Politics
Why New Orleans Still Suffers
June 18th, 2006 · Comments Off
Fingers in the federal pie
Tags: American Politics · Americans · Charity · Disasters · Gulf Reconstruction · Katrina relief · Local · Politics
Race Card Dealt
May 19th, 2006 · Comments Off
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 [...]
Tags: American Politics · Commentary · Disasters · Gulf Reconstruction · Local · Original writing · Politics


