Recession finally hits state government
Most of us have had to learn to do with less these past couple years. I’ve personally used the phrase, “not in the budget” about four million times, whether it…
Redefining "lost"
A story published over the weekend really kind of raised my ire. For those of you who may have missed it, Neale Gulley’s piece in the Sunday paper discussed the…
Who's the addict now?
Government likes to use code words so they don’t look quite so much like the bad guys. For example, it seems like every couple weeks we hear about a new…
Dear Governor Paterson: I never liked you
I have my biases just like anyone else. Add to that the fact that I’m somewhat vindictive and not particularly forgiving and, frankly, it makes me the type of person…
Tax refund holding to be expected
I’ll be honest. Sometimes I kind of snap to judgment. After having a while to think about things, though, sometimes that snap judgment turns out to have been wrong. Last…
Paterson should go now …
I’m not a big fan of the federal government telling the states what they may or may not do. I’m a fairly large proponent, in fact, of the nearly-forgotten 10th…
Maziarz is full of it …
Today’s show dealt with everyone’s favorite State Senator, George Maziarz, who was on WLVL’s news this morning lamenting the fact that Governor David Paterson has decided to appoint a new…
David Paterson wants to tax …
I talked about this website this morning on Dialog … and scrolled through several of them, but didn’t come across the one below. One of my favorite listeners, however, came…
Sweet Caroline?
This morning on Reason, I’m going to talk about the soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat of Hillary Clinton and all the hoopla over Caroline Kennedy. Here’s a news story from Channel 2…