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The slow (but picking up speed) erosion of our freedoms continues in Broome County and New York State. It started some years ago with laws that “save lives” like forcing people to wear seat belts, forcing parents to put their children in “approved” car seats, and forcing motorcyclists to wear helmets. None of these practices [...]

This one “takes the cake” folks. Our do-nothing, supremely narcissistic Senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton, blames President George W. Bush for the mess that is New York’s budget. What? Ole George reached out from Washington and MADE us spend $47 billion on Medicaid–more than any other state in the country? Ole George forced millions of [...]

Sooner or later New York State’s budget will come crashing down. Looks like it might be sooner.
Our illustrious, philandering governor (no, not Spitzer who was dumb enough to pay for sex, but Paterson, who gets his illicit sex for free)… will have a live televised address later today to announce the Empire State is running [...]

Another chapter in Grimm’s (Environmentally Amended) Fairy Tales…
Once upon a time big bad energy companies did something really really bad. They wanted to drill for natural gas where (gasp) natural gas actually existed! Can you imagine raping the ground for something natural? Anyway, these big bad energy companies were of course enabled by and codependent [...]

A lot has happened since I’ve first written about drilling for natural gas around the Greater Binghamton region. For one thing, groups of land owners have banded together and signed contracts worth millions. Yes, millions. Some local farmers who have struggled for years working the farm, paying high taxes and trying to hold on to [...]

According to the Press & Sun-Bulletin (Schumer presses for utility-merger deal), New York’s esteemed senior Senator, Chuckie Schumer (D-New York), wants to help a foreign company take over most of Upstate New York’s energy utilities. Yes, the good Senator has thrown his weight behind the proposed Iberdrola takeover of Energy East, the company that doesn’t [...]

Asphalt, being an oil-based product, has always been pricey. But I didn’t realize the prices had reached $13,636 per parking spot–that is, a space big enough for one vehicle to park in. That’s the price New York State taxpayers just paid for 88 new parking spots at the Greater Binghamton Airport. From today’s Press & [...]