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Entries Tagged as 'Local'

Government As Thief

September 27th, 2007 · Comments Off

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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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.

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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.

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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 [...]

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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.

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Tags: American Politics · Analysis · Local · Original writing · Politics

Why New Orleans Still Suffers

June 18th, 2006 · Comments Off

Fingers in the federal pie

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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 [...]

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Tags: American Politics · Commentary · Disasters · Gulf Reconstruction · Local · Original writing · Politics