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Archived stories from Tuesday, February 5, 2008 through Monday, March 31, 2008

Holiday Valley has a "Sonny Bono" moment (WBEN)... 3/31

New York's budget will not be on time as previously announced (AP)... 3/31
...and on a related note, a money quote regarding the cigarette tax proposals: "I wish they'd hit the drinkers" (AP)... 3/31

Why pay union cleaners when volunteers are willing to do the job for free? Because the unions will sue (WBEN)... 3/30

Details of the budget: Cigarette taxes double, and now they're going to tack that $3 tax on "little cigars," which will cause those items to double in price (AP)... and even more sordid details from the New York Post include taxing out of state vendors... 3/29

Eliot Spitzer's other "other woman?" (WBEN)... 3/29

Stupid: Buffalo police fall for gang initiation hoax... and the media too! Do they realize that the gang in question, the MS-13 (which, by the way, is not a gang but a terrorist organization) is made up mostly of Latin Americans, whose presence in western New York is miniscule, and that there is no evidence whatsoever that the MS-13 was here? 3/27

A worthy cause? New Albion family is part of a campaign to appear on ABC's "Extreme Makeover Home Edition" (Jamestown Post-Journal)... 3/26

CHILD MURDERED IN SALAMANCA (Salamanca Press)... 3/25

The plot thickens: Our new governor has used his campaign funds for suits, hotel stays and paying girlfriends (NY Daily News)... 3/23

Spring is legally here as of 1:48 AM, 3/20 (Old Farmer's Almanac)... and would the TV people quit their stinking whining about how the weather is so "wintry?" Please! It's sunny, and the temperature is in the mid-30s compared to a normal of 40. It's not that bad, people! I was up at 11:00 screaming obscenities to the TV because the meteorologists are so mind-numbingly depressing. No wonder people keep leaving...

14?? That's how many people reportedly voted at the Little Valley village elections, which were uncontested. 3/19

Our illustrious new governor: "I had an affair with someone WHO WAS ON THE STATE PAYROLL" (NY Daily News)... but guess what? Your state GOP is so inept they're going to turn a blind eye! Ridiculous! This is not a personal life. If it were just an affair, it'd be a personal life. But the mistress was on the state payroll. That's corruption. Prosecute it. 3/18

John Faso speaks out on the Spitzer mess, the 2006 governor's campaign and the media (New York Post)... 3/18

BRACKETOLOGISTS, START YOUR ENGINES (the complete bracket)... 3/17

Drive that never fails fails for the third straight year and the Catholics have got into the habit of denial (WJTN)... 3/17

Not once, but twice: Olean, Maple Grove win state titles in basketball (Buffalo News)... 3/16

The Mohawk Indian smuggling trade goes both ways: cigarettes go up, marijuana comes back down (Toronto Sun)... 3/16

Stories like this make me proud: fiscal responsibility and reasonable debt management (Jamestown Post-Journal)... 3/16

Your Cattaraugus County Health Department at work: evicting the Amish! (Jamestown Post-Journal)... 3/14

Catharine Young contradicts herself: She says we must give priority to taxpayers while still propping up our bloated schools and health care systems (Olean Times Herald)... 3/13 (News flash, Senator Young: The two are mutually exclusive.)

Happy 200th birthday, Cattaraugus County! 3/11

BREAKING NEWS: ELIOT SPITZER ADMITS INVOLVEMENT IN PROSTITUTION RING, "CLIENT #9," FUNNELED MONEY ACROSS INTERSTATE BOUNDARIES, SOLICITED PROSTITUTES FOR SIX YEARS... ONE OF THE PROSTITUTES WAS APPARENTLY SOLICITED FROM NIAGARA FALLS... WILL RESIGN EFFECTIVE MARCH 17, DAVID PATERSON WILL TAKE OVER AS GOVERNOR AT THAT TIME. 3/10
Update 3/12: Prosecutors investigating whether or not Spitzer used CAMPAIGN CASH to fund his trysts (AP)... Spitzer wire... 3/14

Here we go again II: Clearly demonstrating their lack of originality, the state is proposing raising taxes on cigarettes again (WJTN)... 3/9

Here we go again: New York liberals move AGAIN to increase the minimum wage PERMANENTLY with an indexing scheme (Gannett)... JUST SAY NO TO INDEXING. 3/7

JOE BRUNO'S LAST STAND: "Help me, John McCain. You're our only hope" (Albany Times-Union)... 3/6

2007 was a good year for big game hunting (WLEA)... 3/5

Hey, guess what the Assembly wants to do? Increase welfare benefits! (AP)... 3/5

Payoff scandal in the state Assembly (AP)... 3/1

Clinton's jobs promise and why she didn't meet it: Blame Bush (Dunkirk Observer)... 2/29

I must say, this is one of the few times I have been very disappointed in Randy Kuhl-- calling for a massive increase in handouts to government workers (WLEA)... 2/29

Brilliant advertising slogan (courtesy of WESB)... 2/28

OBIT: William F. Buckley, 82. Conservative icon, author and pundit, founder of National Review. 2/27

Part of the reason I'm not a Republican: They're absolutely LOUSY campaigners! How do they lose a state senate seat that's tilted 2-1 in their favor?? (AP)... 2/27

And these people call themselves Republicans?! The State Senate has declared that they think there's more money for them to play with in the state budget (AP)... 2/26

Mark your calendars for March 18 for the village elections, two unopposed village board seats (Olean Times Herald)... 2/26

State comptroller busts state aid formula: cities get preferential treatment over suburbs, rural villages of comparable size (Jamestown Post-Journal)... 2/25

Bureaucracy in action: The DEC proposes regulating bait (from the horse's mouth)... 2/23

Kaboom: Proposals for economic development in Salamanca include an "upscale truck stop" near the casino in Salamanca and a shopping mall in the middle of town. (Gary Nease, WPIG)... 2/22

Illegals in Salamanca? According to a complaint, yes (WESB)... 2/20

New York State officials butting in where they don't belong again (AP)... 2/19

Heads up: Eliot Spitzer to be in Olean tomorrow, 2/20 (Olean Times-Herald)... 2/19

Omen??? Lindsay Lohan imitates Marilyn Monroe's last photo shoot (Warning: frontal nudity, NSFW) (via Drudge)... 2/19
Words of note: What's next? One of two things: 1) she seduces Barack Obama, or 2) she drops dead.

Dumb idea: threatening cops with hand grenades, as this Seneca man did in Steamburg (Salamanca Press)... 2/18

It's that time of year again... maple syrup time! (Olean Times Herald)... 2/17

Peak oil? What peak oil? They're still drawing oil out of Allegany County, over 100 years later (Wellsville Daily Reporter)... 2/17

Oh, this is just wonderful: now babysitters are unionizing! (And-- it gets better-- in some parts of the state, they're joining the teacher's unions.) All because Spitzer signed an "executive order" saying they could. (AP)... 2/15

According to Gary Nease of WPIG, "County lawmakers took the first step toward granting Empire Zone tax breaks to a cigarette manufacturer in Kill Buck." (If I were to guess... they're probably Senecas. They don't pay their taxes anyway. Something strange going on...) 2/14

Spitzer steps in it again, volume... I lost count: Plan to charge a $15 tax on mandatory auto insurance faces bipartisan opposition in legislature (Associated Press)... 2/13

Cutbacks at the Seneca Allegany Casino (Salamanca Press)... (but I thought letting the Seneca Mafia build a casino was going to solve the region's employment and money woes!) 2/13

Holy mackerel... 23 accidents in 3 hours? I knew the winter weather was bad... but not that bad! (WESB)... 2/11

Oy vey... not another 3 more years! Can we just kill this pipe dream of a 219 project already? As long as regulations and red tape continue to hamper development we'll continue to devolve into poverty. From WPIG's Gary Nease: The DOT now wants another "environmental impact study" that'll put off the entire project for three more years. I'm furious. This is the crap that is the problem in New York-- everybody wants a study or research or license everything and people have to jump through hoops just to get things done... grr... I am this close to throwing my hat into the ring for state senate in '08 if things don't clean up. 2/8
UPDATE: Olean Times Herald reports they're trying to spin this as a good thing...

OBIT: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, ~91. Spiritual leader and purveyor of "transcendental meditation." 2/5

Watching the Super Tuesday primaries with care... looks like Clinton wins NY for the Dems and McCain wins NY for the GOP, but that's just a guess and I'm not encouraging either way.

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