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Don't look now folks, but Charlie Ramos just scored a major endorsement in his progressive, reform-oriented campaign against Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr. Today El Diario, the spanish-speaking paper of record in New York, endorsed Charlie in his bid for the State Senate. The endorsement focused more on Charlie's community involvement and record of civic engagement while noting that Diaz Sr. simp...
The Albany Project - 7:48 a.m.
Weather is really strange. There are five named storms roaming the Atlantic right now. The biggest, hurricane Earl, is about to scrape the Outer Banks of North Caolina and could even pose a threat to New York City by Friday afternoon. Tropical storm Fiona looks destined to strike Bermuda. Tropical storm Gaston is foaming up the central Atlantic and a...
Simply Left Behind - 6:24 a.m.
NY-20 Rep. Scott Murphy represents the most Republican-by-registration district in New York, and like his NY-20 predecessor now-Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, joined the Blue Dog Coalition. Though Murphy has supported all the major Obama/Democratic initiatives (stimulus bills, HCR, financial regulation, cap-and-trade, etc.), he is more sensitive to the concerns of small business owners and mor...
The Albany Project - Wed 7:05 p.m. - 5 clicks 
Perhaps the two biggest bigwigs in the Bronx Party organization have come down on the right side: Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz endorsed Gustavo Rivera for State Senate today, the latest endorsements for Rivera's surging campaign against scandal-ridden incumbent Senator Pedro Espada. Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. said: "It is time for change i...
The Albany Project - Wed 3:20 p.m. - 6 clicks
Something that has been dreamed about since TR Gallo took office, was the chance to take a ferry to Rhinecliff from Kingston, starting from our very own Rondout Harbor. Well, it looks like that dream has finally been realized. The unveiling of just such a ferry happened only days ago and was featured on YNN this past weekend. It's a small boat that can hold about 40 people owned by Sandy Henn...
Kingston Progressive - Wed 3:04 p.m. - 4 clicks
It appears voters have finally made the connection between the dysfunction in Albany and their own legislator that they keep sending there year after year: Worst Score Ever for State Legislature New York State voters disapprove 75 - 15 percent of the job the State Legislature is doing, matching the 76 - 16 percent disapproval from a June 23 Quinnipiac University poll for the worst overall ne...
The Albany Project - Wed 2:09 p.m. - 6 clicks
Hempstead Proposes Tough New Law to Control Cell Towers, Hire Wireless Communications Expert Making telecommunications giants meet the highest standard of proof in establishing the need for new cell towers as well as ensuring that approved wireless communications equipment is located at sites that minimize negative impacts on local communities are the motivation behind a new proposal by Hemps...
The Community Alliance - Wed 9:26 a.m. - 5 clicks
I just posted on the New York State traffic count map , and then I looked down the road to see a traffic counter. There's not a whole lot to it, but this is how those numbers get created. Waiting for a car. Counting a car. The brains (really memory) of the traffic-counting operation. ...
Living in Dryden - Wed 6:09 a.m. - 4 clicks
Sept 14th is primary day in New York. both major parties have primaries. On the GOP side there is to governors race on the Democratic side - 5 people are vying for the Democratic Line for Attorney General. Last night, there was what passes for a candidate debate - (more like Q&A) . So, who are you [...] Related posts: you .'>NYS Attorney General Cuomo visits you . Who do you want in...
Rochester Turning - Wed 4:47 a.m. - 6 clicks
This year's free performances brought funding challenges for organizers, angry disputes over noise and even a fight about prison labor. But most New Yorkers just enjoyed the show....
Gotham Gazette - Tue 9:03 p.m. - 6 clicks
Today's Journal has a report on Karen Rachetta, Dryden High School's new principal . The EPA forum on hydrofracking that was cancelled in August is now rescheduled for September 13th and 15th in Binghamton . There are more speaker slots available to those who call in Friday. ...
Living in Dryden - Tue 2:41 p.m. - 16 clicks
Tompkins County Legislators will be hosting a meeting Thursday night to discuss the upcoming 2011 budget at the Dryden Community Center Cafe : Dryden Community Meeting on the 2011 County Budget - Thursday, September 2 The latest in a series of community meetings to discuss next year's County budget is coming up Thursday evening, September 2 in Dryden. The meeting will be held at the Dry...
Living in Dryden - Tue 10:00 a.m. - 7 clicks
This morning's Q-Poll is kinda sad. The controversy surrounding a proposed mosque near Ground Zero leaves New York State voters with conflicting opinions about religious freedom and the sensitivities of the families of 9/11 victims, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. By a 54 - 40 percent majority, voters agree "that because of American freedom of religion, Muslims have ...
The Albany Project - Tue 7:05 a.m. - 7 clicks
Ethics and the economy dominate the hard-fought contest in Upper Manhattan to replace State Sen. Eric Schneiderman....
Gotham Gazette - Mon 9:00 p.m. - 8 clicks
How many cars go by every day? Well, New York State seems to think about 7,383 pass my house each day. It could be worse - the 13/366 overlap has 18126, and Route 13 between there and the Village of Dryden shows 14,253. The Department of Transportation has put together a searchable map of traffic counts . This shows the greater Dryden area: State highway traffic counts ( Click to...
Living in Dryden - Mon 7:29 p.m. - 7 clicks
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Presents #462: "Demand Jobs Now" Joseph Schwartz points to how many are unemployed and how long they have been unemployed as indicators of how bad the economic situation is. The federal government could make things much better with a serious job creation program, but the feds are not likely to act until they feel pressure from people in the str...
Ithaca Action Network - Mon 5:26 p.m. - 6 clicks
Until a fire knocked out the LIRR track switching control system - a contraption of pulleys and levers installed sometime around 1920 - who would have guessed that one of Greater New York's primary transportation systems relied on technology installed at the time Al Capone was selling bootleg liquor? LIRR President Helena Williams made upgrading the switches a priority when she took over in 2007....
The Albany Project - Mon 7:03 a.m. - 10 clicks
On Sunday, September 12th, the Genesee County Democratic Committee is having a fundraising dinner featuring a unique theme: all local food from within 100 miles. The idea is an offshoot of a project begun in New York City with the idea of promoting meals made entirely with local ingredients, creating food that's fresher and that sustains local farming. For our purposes, that includes a locally g...
The Albany Project - Mon 12:48 a.m. - 8 clicks
Incumbent Shirley Huntley faces an opponent almost 50 years her junior in a State Senate race in southeast Queens. And age is hardly the only thing that divides them....
Gotham Gazette - Sun 11:48 p.m. - 10 clicks
It was a pretty quiet week for Dryden in the Journal. Harvestation , though, may be one of the best applications of technology to come out of Dryden in a while : Harvestation.com, a local online bulk buying marketplace which went live in June... The site is an outgrowth of the need for a connection point where local homesteaders, canners and big families can buy local and organic produce...
Living in Dryden - Sat 7:46 p.m. - 11 clicks
As bus loads of people head down to the Glenn Beck rally in D.C. - on the anniversary and at the same place Martin Luther King gave his I have a dream speech - Jon Stewart is on vacation but was kind enough to proactively report on the rally. It’s 10 mins long - the last [...] Related posts: I Love New York: Jon Stewart on Paterson and Rangel Wake-up call: It’s Senator-elect S...
Rochester Turning - Sat 9:23 a.m. - 16 clicks
The endorsement of the New York Times editorial board was a huge boost. And the unhinged negative attacks by Kathleen Rice suggest that he is being taken seriously as a major player. Everyone knows who the supposed front-runners are in this race. But it's pretty clear that this race is up in the air, with no incumbent, and no one with a particularly high profile or name recognitio...
The Albany Project - Fri 3:23 p.m. - 12 clicks
The Varna Volunteer Fire Company has built a new bunkhouse, a building neatly hidden behind their station that lets them provide housing to up to eight fire personnel who will be ready to respond to calls quickly. VVFC bunkhouse ready for work. The VVFC has been talking about a bunker program for longer than I've been running this site. Cayuga Heights and Dryden both have bunker pr...
Living in Dryden - Fri 12:02 p.m. - 8 clicks
US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is holding a fundraiser for her erstwhile opponent in the Democratic primary, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney from Manhattan. You may recall last year that Maloney was making big waves about not getting tapped for the Senate after Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State. She eventually dropped out of the race. From the New [...] Related posts: Massive 2Q haul for ...
Rochester Turning - Thu 2:48 p.m. - 14 clicks
“Anybody that builds a building in New York City changes its skyline – we dont have to run around to every other owner and apologize,” he said. “One guy owns a building, hed like to have it be the only tall building – Im sorry, thats not the real world.” via NYC allows new neighbor for [...]...
Jason Gooljar - Thu 11:41 a.m. - 10 clicks
The Empire State Building will get some competition on the New York skyline now that the City Council has approved another very tall building just a few blocks away. ...
Gotham Gazette - Aug 25 - 13 clicks
A report by Deputy Mayor Goldsmith suggests ways for New York to save millions and also puts a few holes in the image of the Bloomberg administration as a well-oiled machine. ...
Gotham Gazette - Aug 24 - 4 clicks
According to MidHudsonNews, Dutchess County Legislator Angela Flesland (R-Poughkeepsie) is continuing her effort to have a local law passed that would prohibit underage people from using sun tanning booths. I would have to agree with Angela. The rate of skin cancer is on a dramatic rise in America and artificial exposure (at such an early age) may play a significant part. What c...
Kingston Progressive - Aug 24 - 5 clicks
Just to build on Ladkiddo’s post - check out Sam Seder. Now he is an acquired taste but I’ve been following these snips from his on line series - that’s Bullsht. Listen to him make sense. Oh btw the “Mosque” @ ground zero? Well it isn’t quite at ground zero is it. Then there is this [...] Related posts: The non-issue which has become an issue: a mosque ...
Rochester Turning - Aug 24 - 7 clicks
Listening to NPR last week I was tuned into a discussion about how the mosque within the relative vicinity of “Ground Zero” had become a rallying cry from the right, fueling their righteous indignation against those of us on the left who believe the constitution is more than just a piece of paper with which [...] Related posts: That’s Bullsht - Manhattan Mosque The Doctor...
Rochester Turning - Aug 24 - 6 clicks
Knowing I will get grief for this, I’m putting my head out there, on the platter for those on both sides to take a shot at, but this must be addressed… Andrew Cuomo is not opposed to hydrofracking in the Marcellus Shale. Seems the crowned prince was visiting Ithaca last week and ran into (shudder!) constituents [...] Related posts: If Water is the New Oil then Hydrofracking is Cou...
Rochester Turning - Aug 23 - 9 clicks
Republicans have a rare opportunity to pick up an Assembly seat in the city as five candidates compete in northeast Queens....
Gotham Gazette - Aug 23 - 9 clicks
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Presents #461: "We Need a Jobs Program" Bill Barclay of the Chicago Political Economy Group compares the current recession with the Great Depression. Some very effective measures both to regulate banks and to create jobs were taken at that time. Even in the face of structural changes in the economy, we can learn a lot from the 1930s. Recorded ...
Ithaca Action Network - Aug 23 - 2 clicks
“I live here, Sarah Palin doesn’t”(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN) NEW YORK — August 22, 2010. Sunday was another rainy day in New York City, as two sides of the Ground Zero mosque issue squared off in dueling protests — two sides who are responding to a catastrophe with two mutually exclusive answers: hatred and [...]...
Next Left Notes - Aug 23 - 4 clicks
Below is the New York Daily News endorsement for our next Attorney General: Five Democrats are competing in a primary election campaign to become the party's standard-bearer for New York State attorney general. Eric Dinallo is the choice in the field. Dinallo offers a blend of first-rate legal, executive and regulatory experience that is unique among the contenders and equips him be...
Kingston Progressive - Aug 23 - 6 clicks
As officials and residents grapple with bias-related violence on Staten Island, civil rights columnist Andy Humm takes the ferry to investigate the possible causes of the increase....
Gotham Gazette - Aug 22 - 7 clicks
Glad To See PARCnassau Still Pounding Away At County's Neglect Of Our Parks Yes, our friends at PARCnassau, a Nassau County (Long Island) park advocacy group, is now blogging. Visit (and bookmark) the blog at http://parcnassau.blogspot.com/ . Kudos to Bruce Piel, PARCnassau Chairman, not only for his foray into blogdom, but moreover, on keeping the heat on county government to protect and...
The Community Alliance - Aug 20
Hurricane Recovery Act Proposed By Candidate for NYS Assembly If only New York had a "How Are We Going To Pay For It Act!" Perhaps former NYC Mayor Ed Koch could enlist a few of his newly-converted "reformers" ( SEE NYuprising.org ) to come up with some novel ideas. Meanwhile, it looks like more of the same in terms of promises of deductions, tax breaks, and the old political ...
The Community Alliance - Aug 20 - 3 clicks
Gov. Hugh Carey saved New York from financial ruin in the 1970s. We take a look back via the new book: "The Man Who Saved New York." ...
Gotham Gazette - Aug 18
The 2010 Adoptee Rights march in Louisville meets the press(Photo: Dory Martin / ARC) [ Editor's Note: I was adopted in October of 1958. In May of this year I found my birth mother. I went to see her in July. It was one of the most remarkable experiences of my life. I not only [...]...
Next Left Notes - Aug 18 - 5 clicks
“McMahon Stop Pandering To Islamophobia”(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — August 16, 2010. What do angry labor leaders, frustrated health care recipients, disgusted anti-war activists, stunned “Jewish money” donors and now — protesters decrying an “Islamophobic Witchhunt” — have in common? Mike McMahon. Activist Elaine Brower str...
Next Left Notes - Aug 18 - 3 clicks
(Photo: Bud Korotzer / NLN) NEW YORK — August 10, 2010. MoveOn is worried. Apparently so were a hundred or so of their closest friends. (Photo: Bud Korotzer / NLN) The progressive Democrats held a rally a “Rally for Democracy” in which “New York City residents gathering to support fundamental changes to recapture our government [...]...
Next Left Notes - Aug 18 - 6 clicks
(Photo: Ed Hedemann / WRL) NEW YORK — August 7, 2010 — Tompkins Square Park. It was an unusually pleasant summer day for an especially unpleasant subject — 65 years since the United States unapologetically — to this day — unleashed nuclear weapons on the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, unilaterally beginning the nuclear arms [...]...
Next Left Notes - Aug 18 - 3 clicks
(Photo: Bud Korotzer / NLN) NEW YORK — “Stop in the name of health! Don’t cut my Medicare. After I voted for you. After I voted for you.” 100 people from the Granny Peace Brigade and their many supporters sang like the Supremes (Stop in the Name of Love) and did a group dance in [...]...
Next Left Notes - Aug 18 - 4 clicks
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Presents #460: "Chicago Women's Liberation Union" Peg Strobel tells Young Democratic Socialists about this socialist feminist organization in Chicago in the 1970s that educated, organized protests and sports teams, and provided services and cultural events and goods. Their approach to organizing has many lessons for activists today. Recorde...
Ithaca Action Network - Aug 16 - 2 clicks
President Obama signed a hefty border security bill last week. Allocating $600 million to invest along the southern border with Mexico. Ironically, our own Senator Chuck Schumer supplied the lone voice vote of YES in the US Senate which allowed the bill to reach the president. According to news reports from the AP: the new law will pay for the hiring of 1,000 more Border Patrol agents t...
Kingston Progressive - Aug 14 - 3 clicks
Saturday, August 14th, NY Attorney General candidate Eric Dinallo made a few stops in Kingston. A few dozen people came out to meet him and ask questions of the man who served as the "undersheriff" of Wall Street while Eliot Spitzer was making significant strides to clean up the corruption in our financial industry. Eric put violent criminals behind bars as a prosecutor in Robe rt Morge...
Kingston Progressive - Aug 13 - 3 clicks
A “Peace Procession” was part of the 2010 Hiroshima / Nagasaki observance(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — August 8, 2010. Hiroshima still haunts: marking the 65th anniversary of the Hiroshima / Nagasaki bombings the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Church of Staten Island and Peace Action of Staten Island commemorated the [...]...
Next Left Notes - Aug 11
A reminder of the quality brought to Nassau County by Ed Mangano.. " Of all the appointments made by Nassau County Executive E dward Mangano since taking office in January, one in particular is drawing questions: a $90,000-a-year minority affairs job that went to a man convicted of participating in a scam to sell patient information from Nassau University Medical Center . " Pr...
Nassau GOP Watch - Aug 11
Bias attack victim Richard Vieira looks on as Matt Titone and Gerard Mawn address the crowd(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — August 7, 2010. On Saturday evening a diverse group of Staten Islanders united against hate crimes, held a candlelight vigil outside Borough Hall — before marching to White Castle where Assembly [...]...
Next Left Notes - Aug 10
(Photo: Bud Korotzer / NLN) NEW YORK — On August 5, 400 people (with another 50 were on a waiting list) paid anywhere from $25 up to board a boat at the East 23 Street Marco Polo Marina for a sunset cruise of New York harbor. All had two things in common: an understanding of [...]...
Next Left Notes - Aug 10
Raymond Keating in the NY Post let loose a volley of shots against Mangano that should have him and his supporters worried about a primary in a couple of years.. "Are New York Republicans any better than Democrats? It's not looking that way in Nassau County. After six months of GOP control in Nassau, things are largely business as usual. Rather than face the fiscal music, new County Executive ...
Nassau GOP Watch - Aug 9
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Presents #459: "Ice Cream Socialists" Socialists gather at the US Social Forum in Detroit for ice cream and talk. Frances Fox Piven tells about the need for militant action to make change happen in government. Elizabeth Bunn explains that while organized labor is losing ground in the US private sector, it is still there in the public sector; i...
Ithaca Action Network - Aug 9
And the taxpayer funded mailing of lies continued with this great entry as an "accomplishment" for Mangano " Day 39 - February 8th: Announced the County's purchase of Grossman's Farm, a five-acre family farm located on Hempstead Avenue in Malverne." Maybe Mangano announced the finalized purchase but it was County Executive Tom Suozzi who sought to buy it and started the process th...
Nassau GOP Watch - Aug 9
