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Medicaid is Bankrupting Broome County and All of New York State
Each year when Broome County Executive Barbara Fiala releases the proposed budget my blood pressure goes through the roof. Not because of Barb or her proposals per se, but because the real story is so well hidden in the numbers. I believe politicians do their [...]

Editorial Note: Yes, it has been some time since I’ve written anything on this blog. Purposely. For one thing, it’s time consuming! I don’t want to dash off comments and commentary that’s not well thought-out. I also don’t want to write things that are angry in tone–I’ve been somewhat grumpy since November 2008.
It has always [...]

This brief excerpt from a Cheers & Jeers column running in the Feb. 7 Press & Sun-Bulletin:
Cheers that two new dental clinics served more local Medicaid patients last year than had been seen in the past – 17 percent more, which translates to more than 13,700 mouths – but grimaces that most of Broome County’s [...]

New York State is facing a serious budget shortfall. This was forecast in July, before the yo-yoing of the stock market, the crash of Goldman Sachs, the problems of insurance giant AIG, and the so-called “bailout” (read government nationalization) of our country’s biggest financial institutions. Back in July, our newly minted governor, David Paterson, warned [...]

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 [...]

The closer we get to election year, the more Binghamton Mayor Matt Ryan (Democrat, Citizen Action flunky, socialist) sounds like a conservative Republican. But don’t let his rhetoric fool you.
Today’s Press & Sun-Bulletin runs a story with the headline, Ryan freezes city hiring. The story reports the hammer has come down: No new hiring for [...]

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 [...]