Whose rights? In “Taking the FIF” (August 14), Jack Bradigan Spula presents statistics that, like all statistics, leave unanswered questions. For example: “The NYCLU report shows that drug activity accounts for 55 percent of FIFs; no other ‘context’ accounts for more than 10 percent.” And [quoting SUNY Brockport professor Eileen O’Brien]: “‘Drug use data consistently […]
County budget
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Reader Feedback 8.28.02
The county budget, the Jazz Festival, Democrats in disarray,
moms in playland
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Have you had enough?
Either the stress of the job has gotten to him, or the man is just plain mean. This community, once simply sliding slowly downhill, is now about to implode.
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Reader feedback 8.21.02
It’s what we want; Where’s the outcry?; Is the money there?; Dems in disarray; Shut out; Moms in playland
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County social service cuts: too much, too fast?
The county giveth and the county taketh away. Furthermore, it can do so without warning or regard to the wider implications of its actions. That’s the hard lesson the heads of local social service agencies say they have learned in the wake of County Executive Jack Doyle’s decision to cut county funding for their […]
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War of the words
County Executive Jack Doyle has been getting an earful from people unhappy with his proposed social service cuts. And in an interview with WXXI radio broadcast on August 14, Doyle responded with a mouthful of criticism. Regarding social service agencies with which the county contracts to provide services, Doyle told WXXI: “Most of their […]
