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Jeremy Moule on March 12th, 2010
County Executive Maggie Brooks will not run for the 29th Congressional District seat.
Brooks announced her decision in a statement this morning.
"The time may come when we take our message of stable taxes, controlled spending, and job creation to the halls of Congress, but today I couldn't be prouder to continue
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Jeremy Moule on March 12th, 2010
A new group has formed to fight efforts to dissolve the Village of Brockport.
Pro-Brockport is a 50-member committee whose members include village Trustees Hal Legg, Kent Blair, and Scott Hunsinger; former mayor, Jo Matela; and former village trustee, Carrie Maziarz.
Brockport residents are being "blindly asked" to dissolve a level
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Jeremy Moule on March 10th, 2010
Former Congress member Randy Kuhl doesn't want the 29th District seat back, according to a statement he sent out this afternoon.
"Over the last week, I have heard from hundreds of my former constituents urging me to run for my old congressional seat," the statement reads. "Their emotional plea to me
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Jeremy Moule on March 10th, 2010
RGRTA head Mark Aesch told 13 WHAM that the agency won't build a bus station if it can't use the Mortimer site. [See a response below from City Council member Elaine Spaull.]
Design work for that site is complete and environmental approvals have been secured, he said. Those steps were completed
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Jeremy Moule on March 9th, 2010
IRAQ TOTALS - 4,380 US servicemen and servicewomen, 318 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen, and approximately 95,593 to 104,291 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to March 8.
American servicemen and servicewomen killed February 23 to 25:
-- Sgt. William C. Spencer, 40, Tacoma,
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Jeremy Moule on March 8th, 2010
City Council should soon get legislation that will authorize the sale of city-owned land around Hemlock and Canadice Lakes to the state.
In a statement released over the weekend, Mayor Bob Duffy said the city and state Department of Environmental Conservation have come to an agreement over the land and that
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Jeremy Moule on March 5th, 2010
On Monday, Eric Massa will resign his position as a member of the House of Representatives.
Massa posted a lengthy statement on his website this afternoon. In part of it, he gives essentially the same reason he gave for abandoning his reelection bid: his health. But he also talks at length
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Jeremy Moule on March 3rd, 2010
In a surprise announcement this afternoon, Upstate New York Congress member Eric Massa said he will not seek re-election.
And shortly afterward, Monroe County Executive said she might run for the seat.
Massa told a media conference call that he is backing out due to health reasons. Politico reported earlier today that
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Jeremy Moule on March 3rd, 2010
A group of US Senators, including New York's Kirsten Gillibrand, has introduced legislation that would repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell.
The repeal bill, introduced today, is called the Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2010. It has a slew of co-sponsors; including Joe Lieberman and Arlen Specter but no Republicans.
The bill would eliminate
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Jeremy Moule on March 3rd, 2010
The 1979 core meltdown at Three Mile Island, outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, so scared Americans that no new nuclear plants have been built since.
It wasn't due to some official prohibition or anything like that. Instead, the plants just got too expensive to build.
"Plants that were under construction, all of a
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Jeremy Moule on March 12th, 2010
City officials have negotiated a $13.7 million deal to sell the Hemlock and Canadice Lakes watershed lands to the state. All that's left is for City Council to approve the authorizing legislation.
Mayor Bob Duffy announced the agreement earlier this week, but released some details late yesterday afternoon. The state DEC
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Jeremy Moule on March 9th, 2010
[4:56 p.m.] In just a few minutes Eric Massa is set to appear on Glenn Beck's Fox News program. Massa's been the subject of a growing scandal involving sexual harassment allegations filed by aides. During his radio program Sunday, he said Democratic leaders used those allegations to push him out
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Jeremy Moule on March 9th, 2010
Eric Massa was the focus of the first half-hour Glenn Beck's show this morning, which offered a prelude to the former Congress member's appearance later today on Beck's Fox News show.
Massa's allegations against Democratic leaders led Beck to reach out to him. Massa claims that Democratic leaders used a sexual
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Jeremy Moule on March 8th, 2010
Eric Massa's going on Glenn Beck's Fox News show tomorrow at 5 p.m.
This comes on the heels of Massa's radio appearance yesterday on Hornell's WKPQ, where he's hosted a weekly radio program since he took office. During yesterday's show, he launched into a diatribe claiming he's being smeared and forced
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Jeremy Moule on March 5th, 2010
The 29th Congressional District is going to stay in the headlines for a while, thanks to the looming possibility of a special election to replace Eric Massa, who's giving up his seat on Monday.
The race's outcome will be seen as a bellwether, an indication of which party will have the
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Jeremy Moule on March 5th, 2010
SUNY Brockport Professor Joe Makarewicz offered me this succinct explanation of the problem with invasive species in the Great Lakes: "Once they're here you can't get rid of them."
Makarewicz was talking to me about invasives in general. But his explanation is something that federal officials, elected representatives, and Great Lakes-area
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Jeremy Moule on March 1st, 2010
The state budget is supposed to be passed in less than a month, and I'm starting to wonder what the budget talks between the legislature and the governor will look like this year.
If legislators are really refusing to negotiate with Governor David Paterson, that throws the whole process out of
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Jeremy Moule on February 26th, 2010
When Governor David Paterson announced this afternoon that he's dropping his election bid, he hit on a lot of the themes that he covered when he announced his candidacy last week.
He mentioned accomplishments like Rockefeller Drug Law reforms and cutting spending to balance difficult budgets. But in the end, he said,
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Jeremy Moule on February 26th, 2010
Whether Governor David Paterson ends his campaign today, he's done.
The New York Daily News' Daily Politics blog reports that Paterson will end his campaign today. Never mind that just a week ago he officially kicked it off.
Paterson has increasingly face pressure not to run. As this week passed, several of
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Jeremy Moule on February 25th, 2010
Democrats are again proposing to shrink the County Legislature.
During a press conference today, some members of the caucus unveiled a proposal to reduce the size of the Lej from 29 members to 15. The move, they said, would save the county $1 million every two-year legislative cycle.
"We are proposing
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