By Jim Willis on Oct 31, 2008 in Reviews, Stores | 3 Comments
A new rant, and this time not related to politics! My advice to you, if you live in the Greater Binghamton area: Never, ever, under any circumstance use AT&T Wireless as your cell phone provider. Ever! My family and I have had a miserable experience over the past two years. Yes, I fell for the [...]
By Jim Willis on Oct 29, 2008 in City Council, Government & Politics, Society & Culture | 16 Comments
A Binghamton City Councilman (Sean Massey, pictured right), from the district I moved from when I left Binghamton, is proposing legislation that would re-label abnormal as normal inside the city limits. The headline in today’s Press & Sun-Bulletin says this: City councilman proposed panel on human rights: Commission would fight discrimination. Sounds so wholesome and [...]
By Jim Willis on Oct 27, 2008 in Education, Government & Politics, Taxes & Spending | 0 Comments
Here we go again with the continuing lie from our public schools, this time pedaled by the administration at the Susquehanna Valley School District (SV), that “the state” and other nebulous entities will pay almost all of the proposed $27.3 million price tag to renovate four school buildings. Read about it here: SV residents will [...]
By Jim Willis on Oct 25, 2008 in Elections, Government & Politics, Society & Culture | 0 Comments
My McCain-Palin sign is gone. Did the wind take it? Or was it taken by an Obama socialist? You decide.
Tuesday around these parts it was massively windy. I kept looking out my office window, which overlooks my front yard, to keep an eye on my McCain-Palin sign. It’s one of those plastic deals, kind of [...]
By Jim Willis on Oct 20, 2008 in Elections, Government & Politics, Sen Barack Obama, Sen John McCain | 0 Comments
I feel it necessary to provide the proper context to understand the yellow journalism media we currently have to suffer through these final few weeks of the presidential campaign. Here goes…
By Jim Willis on Oct 19, 2008 in Elections, Government & Politics | 4 Comments
I don’t read local retired Press & Sun-Bulletin associate editor David Rossie’s weekly columns much any more. It’s painful reading someone who has the writing equivalent of Alzheimer’s as the little intelligence he has left evaporates into vapidness. But it’s like an accident–sometimes you can’t look away.
Today’s column in the P&SB is one such column. [...]
By Jim Willis on Oct 16, 2008 in Exec Barbara Fiala, Government & Politics, Mayor Matt Ryan | 0 Comments
A few months ago, the Binghamton-Johnson City Joint Sewage Treatment Plant’s board put forth a budget with a 63 percent increase. Believe me folks, I don’t make this stuff up! New state and federal “mandates” placed on the plant to clean up discharges into the Susquehanna River are being blamed, in part, for the increase. [...]