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Bad Ideas, Worse Behavior: Spitzer’s B...

Posted by Matt in Campaign 2010, Economy, Featured Articles, Federal Government, Media, NY State Government, corruption on 04 8th, 2010 | Comments Off

There’s good news for anyone worried that sanctimonious disgrace Eliot Spitzer learned lessons and improved himself since he joined the Emperors Club: he hasn’t changed at all. Yep, he’s still as contemptible as ever. I hate to even give attention to someone who most people hoped would enjoy...

New York Will Repay You, Someday...

Posted by Anthony Bialy in Campaign 2010, Economy, NY State Government on 02 22nd, 2010 | 1 Comment

You’d think they’d be grateful. But the beneficiaries of our involuntary kindness are too busy punishing us for it. New York State is planning on propping itself with tax refunds in lieu of promptly returning the overpayments to their proper owners. A governor who amusingly thinks he could...

Off-the-Rails Spending...

Posted by Anthony Bialy in Buffalo, Campaign 2010, Commentary, Economy, Federal Government, Media, News, U.S. Senate on 02 2nd, 2010 | 2 Comments

We need government-funded trains to facilitate travel across the country. On top of that, their construction will spur financial recovery. That’s because it’s 1936. Regrettably, when it comes to fixing and administering the economy, we’re still coping with a Depression mentality; further,...

Posted by Anthony Bialy in Buffalo, Campaign 2010, Commentary, Economy, Media, News, corruption on 01 11th, 2010 | 2 Comments

City Hall can’t run the economy properly. City Hall can barely run City Hall. Buffalo has not quite been dragged into financial utopia by its government; that’s especially seen in the folly of redistributing our money among companies of the bureaucracy’s choosing. But at least one...

Posted by Anthony Bialy in Buffalo, Campaign 2008, Campaign 2010, Commentary, Economy, Erie County, Federal Government, House of Representatives, News, U.S. Senate, White House on 12 28th, 2009 | Comments Off

It’s nice to agree with your congressperson every so often. Concurring with one’s representative makes one feel, well, represented. That’s true even if accord happens for some as rarely as seemingly every area of the country except Buffalo gets walloped with Christmas-week snow. Anything...

Dinner Should be on the Hall...

Posted by Anthony Bialy in Buffalo, Commentary, Economy, Media, News on 12 15th, 2009 | 2 Comments

The City of Buffalo would like you to dine out. Please. But kindly only do so at sanctioned eateries that the local government has blessed with cash. The Buffalo News recently highlighted the specific flaws of a loan program that removes “free” from markets: City Hall lending to business...

Makeovers Don’t Last...

Posted by Anthony Bialy in Buffalo, Commentary, Economy, Entertainment, Media, News on 11 17th, 2009 | 6 Comments

I’d rather track scarcely talented American Idol contestants, get caught up on Glee’s let’s-relive-high-school plotlines, or endure a fan’s lecture about how Earth-shatteringly wonderful 30 Rock is before hearing another hyped word about Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Many...

Posted by Anthony Bialy in Buffalo, Commentary, Economy, Federal Government, News on 10 7th, 2009 | Comments Off

Money? Good. Fighting cancer? Good. But money intended to aid the cancer fight could be spent ineffectually despite the astoundingly noble goal. The Buffalo News carried a recent story about a federal grant that’s by default more useful than every other project that has been or will be funded...

Posted by Anthony Bialy in Architecture, Buffalo, Commentary, Economy, News on 10 1st, 2009 | Comments Off

Can somebody buy the damn Statler Towers already? The perpetual struggle to find an owner for the iconic yet largely unoccupied hotel, which has been seemingly dragging since just after Millard Fillmore lived on the spot, isn’t ending soon even though some guys may have bought it. Or perhaps not: The...

Posted by Anthony Bialy in Buffalo, Commentary, Economy, Erie County, Media, NY State Government, News on 09 30th, 2009 | 3 Comments

It used to be that companies were “incubators for skills.” But why bother getting on-the-job training when the government will cover the cost of getting you up to speed? For one, The Buffalo News adores the idea of making everyone pay to school a few workers, as evidenced by the Mark...

Posted by Anthony Bialy in Commentary, Economy, NY State Government on 09 29th, 2009 | Comments Off

>It figures: David Paterson starts to get it as soon as he’s politically toast. New Yorkers don’t appreciate President Obama basically encouraging the governor to spend more time with his family. But the same story notes that this doesn’t mean they like the state’s leader: >Just 17 percent...

Posted by Matt in Buffalo, Economy, Featured Articles, Rochester on 07 18th, 2009 | Comments Off

A ranking of the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the United States, puts Buffalo, NY and Rochester, NY nearly at the bottom for job postings per capita. In case you can’t tell from the graphic, the city with the biggest dot, by far, is Washington, DC. It is nice to know that while Americans...

Posted by Matt in NY State Government on 03 15th, 2009 | 1 Comment

It is nice to know while those of us in the private sector struggle through this economic slowdown, New York state employees are riding in cars and using gas that we, the taxpayers, are paying for. And we are paying big. Some even get chauffeurs. While the rest of us tighten our belts, state employees...