Tag: State Senate

This week’s column in the US&J, Tonawanda News and Medina Journal-Register talks about the “loons” who blame the president for everything, particularly highlighting gas prices. Here’s a couple news articles…

This story in the New York Daily News says that Dean Skelos, who leads the Senate Republicans in New York claims the moral high ground for a plan to add…

As I listened to the debate and subsequent vote over the marriage equality act in the New York state Senate on Thursday, I couldn’t help but beam with pride as…

Some people have no respect for the sanctity of marriage. They view marriage as something to horde and keep for themselves. To them, it’s a political football to be kicked…

I have long supported the efforts of Kevin Gaughan, the political activist hell-bent on streamlining Western New York governments. Gaughan can legitimately claim being at least partly responsible for the…

It would seem to me that if something’s right, it’s always right. Doesn’t matter what day it is or what year it is. Slavery was wrong. It was always wrong.…

For anyone who wondered whether New York State’s legislative bodies were completely worthless, we got our answer. And it’s a resounding yes. That answer came in the form of a…

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…

As I write this, the state Assembly and Senate have been called back to Albany for a special session to try to trim $1 Billion from the state budget ……

If it weren’t for the fact that Fred Dicker wrote this story, I’d find it nearly impossible to believe. According to Dicker’s story in the NY Post: State Senate Minority…