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POLITICS: What's Maggie up to?
Curious about how County Executive Maggie Brooks will plug a possible $29 million gap? A new budget survey on the county's website offers some insi... Read More
GAY MARRIAGE: Technicality delays county's appeal
The Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, will not review a lower court's decision involving a lesbian marriage. In the case of Martinez v. ... Read More
CHARITY: Donate your clams, get a shell-bell
This is, of course, assuming your stimulus check doesn't go straight into your gas tank or to the cheery checkout guy or gal at Wegmans. The first ... Read More
CIVIC ACTION: 5/7-5/14
This week's calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) The wild ... Read More
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COST OF WAR: The Iraq conflict by the numbers (5/7/08)
TOTALS - 4067 U.S. soldiers, 309 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 83,336 to 90,897 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning... Read More
TRANSPORTATION: Schwinn to win
When it comes to cars and bikes, those kindergarten lessons about sharing sometimes fall a little short.Conflicts between drivers and cyclists are ... Read More
ENVIRONMENT: Manipulating Ontario's water levels
Lake Ontario water levels are not naturally determined. They are carefully planned out, artificially controlled, and are linked to the levels of th... Read More
HEALTH CARE: New Yorkers aren't planning for the end
It wasn't until Terri Schiavo's end-of-life experience made national headlines that many Americans even heard of health-care proxies. Schiavo colla... Read More
GOVERNMENT COSTS: Report suggests some baby steps
A long-awaited report was released in Albany today, dealing with the state's high taxes, the high cost of local government, and what could be done ... Read More
POLITICS: Bye bye Thruway Authority?
Assemblyman Joe Morelle today introduced legislation to study the abolishing of the state Thruway Authority. The proposal would establish a tempora... Read More
DOWNTOWN: Ren Square: some answers, more questions
There was plenty of news in last week's unveiling of the latest vision for Renaissance Square. The project's footprint has shrunk by at least a qua... Read More
EDUCATION: Phantom students hurt grad rates
City school officials are working to boost the district's 39 percent graduation rate. But the outcome of an intensive districtwide effort to help s... Read More
COST OF WAR: The Iraq conflict by the numbers (4/30/08)
TOTALS - 4052 U.S. soldiers, 309 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 83,004 to 90,552 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning... Read More
LITERATURE: Small press imports culture to US readers
Fewer than 3 percent of the 250,000 fiction and nonfiction books published in the US each year are works of translation, even though some have had ... Read More
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