$57 Million Lawsuit filed against State of NY & Maid of the Mist

On Friday, November 20, 2009, William M. Windsor filed a lawsuit in Albany New York against the State of New York, the Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation, the New York State Office of the State Comptroller, the Attorney General, the governor, present and...

NY SHRPC: 'Get Flu Shot' OR 'Get Fired'

The State Hospital Review and Planning Council earlier this month adopted a new emergency regulation that requires New York State hospital workers to get the flu shot or get fired, and that it be a requirement for...

Even Billionaires Get Welfare In New York State!

Dinosaur BBQ is a small chain of very good Bar B Q restaurants with locations in Rochester, Syracuse and New York City. The city of Troy, NY has an empty restaurant on their waterfront and when Dinosaur expressed interest in opening a location there, Mayor Harry Tutunjian...

Diabetes II Solution could be Obesity Surgery

In two new studies the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery found that both lapband and gastric bypass surgery can help eliminate diabetes. The effect of this surgery has been known for a while, these studies; however, find that the effects can be long...

NYS lawmakers push for answers after murder of youth counselor

NY State lawmakers continue to push for answers after the recent murder of 24 year old youth counselor Renee Greco. Greco, who was working alone at Avenue House, a group home for troubled youth in Lockport, NY,...

NYSUT demands law to curb bullying in schools

"These are only the heartbreaking headlines that have caught our attention," said NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi. "We know that there are many more students whose stories don't make the headlines." Bullying is...

Tea Party Protest of Albany and NYS Budget Process

About 300 people attended Rus Thompson’s tea party this afternoon to call on Albany to reform itself and let Western New York be Western New York. The structural and substantive deficiencies that plague Albany...

President Obama & NY Attorney General Cuomo Outraged by AIG

""Taxpayers of this company are now supporting AIG, and they deserve at the very least to know how their money is being spent." Andrew Cuomo, New York Attorney General. " When word got out that AIG, the failed...

Wall Street: 20 Billion Dollar Bail-out for AIG

American International Group, Inc. (AIG), the insurer at the center of the troubled Wall Street financial system, is bailed out by New York State Governor Paterson, who directed a one-time lifting of state...

NYS Comptroller Releases City of North Tonawanda School District Audit

Update: 11 September 2008 9:13 pm ESTIn a Press Release dated 10 September 2008, New York State Comptroller DiNapoli's office announces the release of City Of North Tonawanda School District "Internal Controls...

BREAKING NEWS: Inauguration of Patterson as Governor of New York

The following transpired from the webpages of the Office of the Governor of New York and after watching on my Windows Media Player, the New York Network on the 17th of March 2008 at 1:00PM EST The webpages of the Office of the Governor of New York removed Spitzers images and...

North Tonawanda Police Department: "What happened to the evidence?"

UPDATE: 12 September 2008 8:42 am EST It may never be learned what happened to the photographic evidence taken by North Tonawanda Police Department Detectives during the alleged bomb threats occurring in...

Wine goes Hybrid...Any 'Traminette' in Your Cellar?

Even though Al Gore just got the Nobel Prize, he is not the one who invented Traminette. Bruce Reisch of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell University)in Geneva (New York) is the man behind it. Jim Clarke looks at why Winemakers look to hardy hybrids...

NY State rules against gay marriage

"The NY State Court of Appeals ruled that gay marriage is not allowed. The Court of Appeals heard a NYC case in which Judge Doris Ling-Cohan ruled that gay marriage was allowed. The city appealed, and the case...

New York Passing New Domain Name Law

"In a move that flies in the face of established international guidelines, the New York Senate is pushing through a bill that would forbid registering the name of a living person with the purpose of selling the domain to that person." Sad that my tax dollars are being wasted...

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