Archives
ranging from Monday, August 1 through Friday, September 30, 2011.
Cuomo
vetoes sale of sparklers and Roman candles (
WBEN)...
9/27
Third fall foliage report of the season is included in
the
weather
forecast... 9/22
Second fall foliage report of the season
Colors are starting to show themselves a little more this
week. The colors that are showing up are varying widely from dull
browns out on Fair Oak Street to a few hints of brilliant orange
on the south hill. I took a ride to Salamanca but it was too hazy
for me to notice any significant color changes. Around the state,
the colors have been relatively slow to change; the Catskills and
Adirondacks are still listed as "just changing" while the core is
nearing midpoint. The rest of the state has shown no change. (
Official
state report) 9/15
Republican primary day in the town
Polls open 12 noon to 9 pm at the Little Valley fire hall. All
four seats up for primary are for town offices: supervisor, town
board (2), and clerk. Two distinct slates are running for the
Republican nomination.
Citizen's Committee (Blue Slate):
Supervisor: Tim Zimbardi, Clerk: Mary Nagurney, Town board: Paul
Stetz and Mark Aldrich
Red Slate:
Supervisor: Pete Wrona, Clerk: Susan Koch (incumbent), Town
board: David Shinners (incumbent) and Phil Gross
Winners will go on to the general election, where the Democrats
have nominated Sharon Fellows for supervisor and incumbent Jim
Frentz for town board, in November. 9/13
UPDATE 9/14 with results:
Supervisor:
Wrona (RS)
92, Zimbardi (CC) 74
Clerk:
Koch (RS-Inc.)
124, Nagurney (CC) 46
Town board (2):
Shinners
(RS-Inc.) 110, Gross (RS) 101, Stetz (CC) 63, Aldrich
(CC) 59
First fall foliage report of the season released
The state of New York has issued its first fall foliage report of
the 2011 season. As is typical of the state's first report, they
only have a small tag of the Adirondacks as having changed more
than 10 percent. My eyes tend to disagree; it appears that most of
the trees, especially the north-facing ones, have reached the 10
percent mark, with a variety of yellows and oranges beginning to
show in Little Valley. (Official state report) 9/8
MDA Telethon, sans Jerry Lewis, draws suspicious total
In six hours, the Muscular Dystrophy Association's revamped
telethon claimed a total of $61,491,393, which somehow is more
than the entire draw of the 20-hour telethon in 2010. Per hour,
MDA would have more than tripled its pledges compared to previous
years. However, I have reason to be suspicious of the MDA's
claims, not only because it was demoted to smaller stations
because of the prime time move and because of their mishandling of
the departure of founder and host Jerry Lewis. Note that the
record draw for the MDA's twenty-hour telethon, in 2008, is
$65,031,393. The last four digits of that total are exactly the
same as the purported draw in 2011. Now, keep in mind: back in the
1800s, numbers runners used to use money totals (such as the U.S.
Treasury balance or the payouts of horse races) as the sources for
their drawings, due to their randomness. The chances of the last
four numbers exactly matching are one in ten thousand. Also note
that thte 2009 telethon drew $60,481,231. Of the first five
digits, the ten-millions, hundred-thousands, and thousands digits
are exactly the same, while the millions and ten-thousands digits
are one digit off. It seems to me that they chopped off the first
four digits of 2009, the last four digits of 2008, and upped a
couple of digits to make the total look bigger. Still, there was
talk of the MDA trying to reach $120,000,000 this year, nearly
double the record, even with the loss of Lewis, the shorter
telethon and worse clearances-- that was never going to happen. Is
it possible they got that much money? Sure; after all, any
publicity is good publicity as the phrase goes, and the MDA got a
lot of it, even if it was universally negative. 9/5
Latest
weather forecast... 9/3
ONE MONTH EARLY COMPARED TO LAST YEAR, BUT HERE IT IS, FOR ALL
YOU CANADIANS AND CANADAPHILES: Thanksgiving
Fullervision Style 2011!
Seneca President Rob Porter: Demanding a $150 business license
for any business on their territory, even non-Seneca ones
(but will they allow them to sell tax-free cigarettes? Fat chance)
(
Salamanca
Press)... UPDATE: Clarification-- apparently the conditions
of Seneca leases make most non-Indians exempt (
SP)
8/31
The comptroller is raising your taxes again (
Gannett)...
8/24
EARTHQUAKE HITS EAST COAST... ONLY THE MILDEST OF TREMORS FELT
IN LITTLE VALLEY... 8/23
***BREAK***
Weather update: A decent Saturday, but a dreary start to
next week is in store (
weather
forecast)... 8/13
Could the race monopoly end soon?
Cuomo actively considering allowing non-Indian gaming (
AP)...
8/11
Another reason why upstate is
better than downstate: Volunteerism rates in NYC are
among the lowest in the country, while upstate cities are above
average (
Gannett)...
8/9
FV8: Fullervision Enterprises celebrates its 8th birthday today.
8/7
BANKSTERS DECLARE WAR: STANDARD & POOR'S DOWNGRADES AMERICA...
8/5
IT'S FAIR WEEK!