I don’t want the Mayor and County Executive teaming up with the Buffalo Niagara Partnership to devise a wish list of remarkably expensive silver-bullet projects to help Buffalo remain essentially the same as it is now, only with shinier buildings. Frankly, I can’t think of three people I’d less like to have plotting the future of Buffalo and Erie County than the Collins-Brown-Rudnick troika.
Instead, what should really be on the wish list is for New York State to lower the... Read Full Story
Erie County Executive Chris Collins’ spokesman Grant Loomis asks a non-rhetorical question:
Why should taxpayers subsidize the capital improvements of other taxpayers?
That question is asked in connection with home improvement tax relief legislation being considered in the county legislature. Ty Pennington would be proud.
Under the proposal, county government would delay taxing expensive additions — those worth $3,000 to $80,000 — that raise the taxable value of single-family and tw... Read Full Story
If you haven’t already seen Chris’ post about the Buffalo Niagara Partnership from earlier today, please do.
What do you do with a half-assed, unaccountable chamber of commerce that bleats endlessly about excessive taxes and government spending on the one hand, but demands $500 million in government handouts for its members’ pet projects?
The Partnership is as stupid as it is feckless. Read Full Story
From HuffPo:
A group called the Chicago Tea Party Patriots publicly heckled a grieving family and suggested that the couple fabricated their tragic story.
At a town hall held by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) on Nov. 14,, Dan and Midge Hough spoke about how they believed the death of their daughter-in-law and her unborn child were caused, in part, by a lack of health insurance. Twenty-four-year old Jennifer was uninsured. According to her in-laws, she was not receiving regular prenatal care and ... Read Full Story
A press release from the Great Lakes Urban Exchange, whose mission is to right the Failboats along the Great Lakes.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — For some, it’s lower taxes. For others, it’s a commitment to a green economy or sustainable city. Many simply need good-paying jobs. Still others want to see a revitalized waterfront.
A coalition of young leaders wants to know what it will take to keep their friends and colleagues in Buffalo. And they want to take that message to the region’s elected offic... Read Full Story
That’s what our alleged legislature in Albany is arguing about. How to cut $3.2 billion from a bloated budget using an out-of-control, petulant adolescent of a legislature. They all hate each other, says Fred Dicker in the New York Post. Who needs Republican opposition when the Democrats run the state, and they hate each others’ guts?
I saw someone write a blog post somewhere about receiving a piece of literature from Assemblyman Mike Jim Hayes, a Williamsville Republican, and... Read Full Story
From the teabag crowd who endorsed local candidates in the last election:
You are a government of the government, by the government, for the government. You have perverted all ideals put forth by your creators.
You are now a combination of Robin Hood, Dracula, Adolph Hitler, Attila the Hun, Marie Antoinette, and Karl Marx.
Gosh, all because the working poor and middle class should have an easier time getting health insurance, and current policyholders are to be treated more fairly.
Give thank... Read Full Story
