Some voters in the 55th State Senate District have received campaign mailers ripping Democratic candidate Ted O’Brien for failing to take ethics training required as a member of the Monroe County Legislature. The mailers are factually wrong. O’Brien did take the training and he’s got the documentation to prove it. But the mailings highlight a […]
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Metro ink – 11-29-06
DEPARTURE The fight to keep one of the airport sculptures in its original location is over. Construction on the new business center where Nancy Jurs’ “Triad” once stood is proceeding, and Jurs says she was notified last month that her sculpture had been removed and stored. The notification came after she sent a letter to […]
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Reader feedback – 10-18-06
US soldier deaths mount; local Republicans flex
their muscle
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Metro Ink – 12.07.05
Duffy starts his move The Duffy administration is starting to take shape — by deletion, more than by addition, at this point. Five senior City Hall administrators have been told that they won’t have a job when the new mayor takes over in January: • Community Development Commissioner Linda Stango; • Economic Development Commissioner Fashun […]
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Reader Feedback 10.26.05
So we have another under-18 victim of a senseless crime, the sixth or seventh for the year (who is counting?)
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Looking for signs of life in the Lej
Last year, the prestigious BrennanCenter for Law and Justice at New YorkUniversity branded the New YorkState legislature the most “dysfunctional” in the United States. The phrase stuck. Even people who’d never read the report hopped on the Albany-bashing bandwagon. The momentum the BrennanCenter generated carried past the splash of the initial press coverage and, improbably, […]
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The Lej roundup: power and possibilities
For the first time in its history, the entire county legislature is up for grabs
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Switch hitter: A lefty gets it right?
Bill Smith still remembers the moment he began to think that one of his Democratic colleagues in the county legislature might make a good Republican. Recalling a casual policy discussion he was having with Chris Wilmot, the Republican majority leader describes Wilmot’s dialogue as “very lucid and a very insightful analysis of what the core […]
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Prescription for partisanship
And there’s no sign that it’ll get prettier anytime soon. The deep rift between Democrats and Republicans in the Monroe County Legislature spilled into the light of open session Wednesday during debate at a Ways and Means committee meeting. Democrats, who are in the minority in the legislature, want the county to consider […]
