
 Your hard earned tax dollars are squandered, all in the name of provincialism masking as 'local control'. |
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| 'There's Gold in Them There Hills!' Can Greater Rochester's Over-taxed, Over-governed Residents Follow Maywood, California's Lead? Monday, August 2, 2010 Rochester, NY - Tiny Maywood, California, a working class suburb of Los Angeles, just trimmed its municipal workforce to---zero. Maywood, CA may be the first municipality to sub-contract out all of its services. And you know what? Taxes are down, services to residents have improved, policing is less corrupt and more humane, and other struggling communities around the nation may follow Maywood's lead. Listening Rochester, Brockport, Batavia, Macedon Village, Webster Village, and Pittsford Village? Read More ... Christopher J. Wilmot - 2 opinions posted |

 Drill Sergeant Powell to NYS election law: "Hit the deck and give me fifty!" |
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| Latest Party Petition Problems Inspire Powell Platform July 26, 2010 The battle of the 23rd LD 20th Election District appears to be over. After Willa Powell submitted a slate of four committee members and MCDC did the same, the issue became the subject of competing petition challenges. Those challenges have been resolved, but the experience has convinced Willa Powell that Albany needs real reform, real soon. Read More ... Aaron E. Wicks - 1 opinion posted |

 Tea 'Bagger' Party in snowy Rochester? Probably not, but this kind of racism is here, too. |
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| 'Tea Baggers' Throw a 'Party' for Jim Crow Supporters, KKK Types Monday, July 19, 2010 Rochester, NY - A war of words reminiscent of the Antebellum South, and Reconstruction, has erupted between NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous (sic), and right wing racists like Matt Kibbe, and ex-Tea Party spokesman Mark Williams. Not since the 1950's and '60's (or was it the 1850's and '60's?) have we seen this kind of hatred and vitriol fired at African-Americans, in general; and President Obama, in particular. Read More ... Christopher J. Wilmot - 2 opinions posted |
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