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Archived stories from Tuesday, April 1 through Saturday, May 31, 2008

Paterson orders state recognition of homosexual marriages in NY-- if conducted out of state (AP)... 5/29

Playing the "veteran" card to increase the number of underqualified government workers-- SICK (AP)... 5/29

The mysterious, elusive moose of the Adirondacks (New York Times)... 5/28

Our state just doesn't learn: More favoritism toward the unions that are destroying this state (WGRZ)... 5/28

Here at Fullervision I decided that due to the threat of rain I didn't try to risk taking footage of this year's Memorial Day parade. But I just have one question for the mayor and his speech: What's a "tusami?" Enough said. 5/27

Dissolve the village of Limestone? (WESB)... 5/27

OBITS: Sydney Pollack, 73, film director... Dick Martin, 86, half of the "Rowan and Martin" comedy team of Laugh-In fame.

OBIT: Jimmy Griffin, 78. Former mayor of Buffalo. (WGRZ)... 5/26

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Only in a small town: Cow kills man in Dayton (WGRZ)... 5/16

Something else to ban, volume... I lost count: nooses (AP)... 5/15

First the feds, and now the state wants to do it too: Another $100 handout disguised as a "rebate" (WGRZ)... 5/14

Looks like David Paterson didn't reveal everything (NY Daily News)... 5/14

YouTube videos of people being each other? Your State of New York wants to not only ban the beating, but ban the video (AP)... 5/13

The "What the... huh?" award goes to Merwin Pierce-- drunk, in a tuxedo, and riding around on a riding lawnmower-- and they're charging him with both DWI and unlicensed operation?!? You don't need a license to ride a riding lawnmower! (AP)... 5/12

Something else to ban: certain trucks on rural roads and forcing them to take the thruway... they say it's for the small towns but read between the lines-- it's a money grab (AP)... 5/12

Government colleges to state: Stop growing? Perish the thought! (Buffalo News)... 5/12

They must REALLY not like that place (and I don't blame them, although this is way too much): Arrest made in bomb threat against Cattaraugus-Little Valley School (Buffalo News)... 5/12

Fiscal crisis be damned, the pork keeps rolling in! (Jamestown Post-Journal)... 5/11

The vetoed legislation that just won't die-- and threatens another unfunded mandate to pay for do-nothings (AP)... 5/9

Just as Cattaraugus County is ready to lift their burn ban (WPIG), New York plans on imposing the ban statewide! (AP)... 5/8

Seneca Nation to get away with not paying taxes-- FOR NOW (Sharon Turano)... 5/8

Oh, the humanity! (/sarc) Pioneer students discover that they can take pictures of themselves naked on cell phones (WGRZ)... 5/7

Another something to ban: idling school buses (AP)... 5/6 That sounds all fine and good until you try to start one up in January...

Double dip-- and I don't mean the French Onion (New York Post)... 5/5

BIG BROWN WINS KENTUCKY DERBY, EIGHT BELLES PLACES, BUT IS KILLED IMMEDIATELY AFTER RACE...

Regatta time again (Salamanca Press)... 5/3

Efforts to restore snowmobile money underway (Springville Journal)... 5/2

Either he's in denial or just plain paranoid: Paterson says there's a secret unit of the state police that's out to get him and others (AP)... 5/2 No, it's just Spitzer, the very guy you latched onto.

Ralph Phillips files appeal (WETM)... 5/2

Well, that didn't take long: Amazon.com to sue over state's online tax grab (New York Times)... 5/2

Bold: Although the State of New York would likely NEVER go along with it, the Assembly minority leader has suggested suspending all 60 cents of the state's gas tax for the summer season. (Gary Nease, WPIG)... 4/30 Yes, but how would the Senecas react?

A food festival devoted to... leeks? (Olean Times Herald)... 4/30

More government fraud in Cattaraugus County (Jamestown Post-Journal)... 4/30

SENECA LINKS TO TERRORISM (WBEN)... 4/29

Cattaraugus County Fair announces their feature concert: Blake Shelton (Fair Web site)... 4/28

Invincibility syndrome: Retired cop busted for driving drunk and killing a woman, right here in Cattaraugus County (AP)... 4/28

Abuse of power with a Cattaraugus County twist: Judges refusing to hear cases unless they get a raise (New York Post)... 4/27

Teacher's unions go to war over tax limits (no surprise here) (Michael Gormley, AP)... 4/27

This is REALLY rich: Audubon Society decides to drill for oil to gain revenue (Jamestown Post-Journal)... 4/27

Another reason to use I-86 instead: Thruway Authority raises tolls on I-90 despite opposition from just about everyone (WGRZ)... 4/25

Schumer's "brinkmanship" plan for lowering oil prices (Jamestown Post-Journal)... 4/25 They are just BEGGING for an embargo, aren't they?

Apparently all suspension bridges are now banned in upstate New York after an environmental impact study killed the Peace Bridge plans [again] (Buffalo News)... 4/24

Fire and propane tank explosion just outside of Little Valley (Jamestown Post-Journal)... 4/23

Another Seneca land grab in Cuba (Olean Times Herald)... 4/23

NOW WE'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE: GOVERNOR PATERSON ORDERS HIRING FREEZE (WJTN)... 4/22

Entrenched (WKBW)... 4/19

Agreement for Salamanca bridge reached... but they won't open bidding until September (Salamanca Press)... 4/18

Area snowmobilers are NOT happy, and for good reason: the state looted their maintenance fund (Olean Times Herald)... 4/18

NOT JUST NO, HELL NO! To the suggestion of Hillary Clinton for Governor (WLEA)... 4/17

Plans for an oil boom in the region (Olean Times Herald)... 4/17

The Route 219 bridge is on its way up! (with pictures) (Olean Times Herald)... 4/16

If you head down to your favorite Mexican restaurant in Allegany, Bradford or Dunkirk and it's closed... the AP explains why. Apparently the authentic Mexican cuisine was a little too authentic. 4/16
UPDATE 4/24: Virtually ALL of the employees were illegal aliens (Olean Times Herald)...
UPDATE 4/25: Another restaurant under investigation? This time in Lakewood (Jamestown Post-Journal)...

CANADA PASSPORT REQUIREMENT PLAN DELAYED (Plattsburgh Press-Republican)... 4/14

65 mph straight line wind damage in Freedom (WGRZ)... 4/14

They're dead serious: New York threatening out of state retailers with "audits" if they refuse to comply with their tax grab (New York Post)... 4/14

Smuggling ring busted in Long Island, with Seneca "help" (Salamanca Press)... 4/13

Gas tank explodes in Chautauqua County (Jamestown Post-Journal)... 4/13

Michael Gormley just doing his thing again: The real money behind this year's budget (AP)... 4/12 I generally hate the AP but Gormley is one of my favorite news writers.

THIS IS WHAT BARACK OBAMA THINKS OF YOU:
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." When later called on it: "Out of touch? Out of touch? I mean, John McCain -- it took him three tries to finally figure out that the home foreclosure crisis was a problem and to come up with a plan for it, and he's saying I'm out of touch?... Senator Clinton voted for a credit card-sponsored bankruptcy bill that made it harder for people to get out of debt after taking money from the financial services companies, and she says I'm out of touch? No, I'm in touch. I know exactly what's going on. ... People are fed up. They're angry and they're frustrated and they're bitter."
I don't dabble in national politics much anymore on this site but this is ridiculous. This arrogant schmidglek has no clue how we think, what we believe in or why we believe in. "Great uniter" my endside.

Pennsylvania gets tough on illegal aliens (WESB)... 4/10

New York State budget passes (AP)... and read the sordid details of all the fees and taxes they're raising if you REALLY want to get your blood boiling. 4/9

Bowling alley to open in Cuba (New York) (Olean Times Herald)... 4/9

Is a Tim Horton's coming to Ellicottville? According to the Ellicottville Villager and WPIG, "The Village Planning Board in Ellicottville expressed no opposition Tuesday to a proposed Tim Horton's Restaurant, but they do want a traffic study before setting a public hearing." 4/9 I guess the bigger question is why Cattaraugus County's little slice of Canada hasn't received a Tim Horton's yet.

Holy crud: Paterson plans to slash next year's budget by 10% because this year's plan is too bloated and we can't rely on the taxpayers anymore (New York Post)... 4/9 Good luck with that. I say that in both a sincere and somewhat sarcastic manner, because we're going to need all the help we can get to get that proposal through.

The back-biting, bickering and infighting continues as the budget process stalls (AP)... 4/7

How did sea lampreys get into the Cattaraugus Creek?? (Springville Journal)... 4/7

Hit and run in Salamanca (WGRZ)... 4/6 Strange... this one's named Maybee too.

Hidden toll hikes: Jacking up the price of E-Z Pass next up on the Thruway Authority's agenda (WYSL)... 4/4

HERE WE GO: A "pressure campaign" from the State Health Department to try to get supermarkets to stop selling cigarettes (AP)... 4/4 and this is the group they want to rely on for revenue? Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!

The woman behind a sham investigation of Spitzer's wrongdoings, his own inspector general, resigns (AP)... 4/4

Budget negotiations continue, and your "Republican" state senate is bringing home the pork! (AP)... 4/4

Route 219 construction resumes (Springville Journal)... 4/4

Another year, another round of Seneca Tax Wars! (Buffalo News)... 4/2

Pennsylvania to lift natural gas drilling ban (WBRR)... 4/2

It's fishing season... 4/2

A punch drunk state senator? Joe Mesi throws his hat into the ring (WBEN)... 4/1

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