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Nixon Peabody Chosen for Stadium Lease
Mar. 9 | Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz announced that the law firm of Nixon Peabody LLP has been selected to serve as Erie County’s (the “County”) outside counsel during upcoming negotiations with the Buffalo Bills to renew the lease agreement...
Marinelli Appointed to Board of Health
Feb. 3 | Erie County Legislator Lynn M. Marinelli was appointed to the Erie County Board of Health February 1. A member of the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee, she will serve as a representative of the Erie County Legislature, and her appointment...
Tobe Named Deputy County Executive
Dec. 12 | Erie County Executive-elect Mark C. Poloncarz announced the appointment of Richard M. Tobe to serve as his administration’s Deputy County Executive. Poloncarz stated: “As I have said, my Deputy County Executive’s will focus on job creation and...
Transition Team Accepting Resumes for Positions
Nov. 29 | Erie County Executive-elect Mark C. Poloncarz announced the launch of his transition team’s new website at http://www2.erie.gov/transition. At the website, Erie County residents can find the latest news from the Poloncarz Transition Team, as well as...
Collins’ Three Rs – Resist , Retain, Raise
Nov. 16 | The View from Poloncarz HQ Bob McCarthy talks to local Republicans who seem as disgruntled as they are un-named, and lists off a series of concerns they have about the Erie County Republican Committee’s direction now that it lost the Corwin and...
Wrapping My Head Around Last Week
Nov. 14 | [HTML1] I’ve been thinking about the County Executive’s race all week, and I can’t seem to crystallize my thoughts into a coherent post, so here you go. I’m not quite sure why regional campaigns would leave their messaging and...
Election Night Interviews
Nov. 11 | I’m still catching up on sleep and recovering from Election Night, and I’m still mulling over what I think Tuesday meant for our body politic, and for WNY’s near future. So, in the meantime, here are interviews I conducted early Wednesday...
Looking Forward to Smooth Transition
Nov. 10 | I would like to express my gratitude to Chris Collins for his service on behalf of Erie County residents. This was a very hard-fought campaign and I wish him well in his return to the private sector. A lot has been made of our disagreements over the course...
Post Election Predictions
Nov. 9 | After a short campaign that was more yawn than scream, Mark Poloncarz succeeded last night in breaking an important glass ceiling: first WNYMedia commenter elected County Executive. Congrats, Mark – like the Bills, enjoy the win for 24 hours,...
Collins Cuts to Social Services Hit Home
Nov. 7 | It’s a common misconception among suburban voters that just because they don’t use social services that they aren’t necessary. Think again. DSS is not adequately doing the job they are supposed to do because the “King” himself,...
Siena Poll on the Erie County Executive Race: Dead Heat
Nov. 6 | Things I find interesting from the Siena Poll for the County Executive’s race that was released last night, apart from the fact that the race swung from a statistical dead heat of 49/46 for Collins with a MOE of +/- 3.4%, to a genuine dead heat...
Collins vs. Poloncarz: Final Weekend
Nov. 4 | 1. The Siena Poll will be releasing updated numbers on Saturday. The hot rumor is that it will find Mark Poloncarz ahead of Chris Collins, likely by about 3 points. This would represent a 6-point swing in Poloncarz’s favor in just less than a month....
Chris Collins: Disabled? (Redux)
Nov. 3 | Hopefully, you remember this post from July, which showed Chris Collins’s vehicle parked at a high school in Akron in a spot reserved for handicapped drivers. This was right before the Akron July 4th parade. We have better images now – images...
Cuts + “Savings” = Millions Lost in Reimbursements
Nov. 3 | Drastic job cuts to the Department of Social Services (“Social Services”) in next year’s budget lack substantial savings. “It appears the Collins administration is more concerned with showing cuts on paper than actually providing tangible savings...
Poloncarz on the Libraries
Nov. 3 | Operating a competent and cost-efficient county government shouldn’t be based on one’s personal lifestyle. Although Chris Collins may have no use for libraries, what with their “public service” and their “spreading of knowledge”,...
Poloncarz on Jobs
Nov. 2 | We like to tout how immune we’ve been from the global financial crisis and recession, but I don’t think 50 years’ worth of economic, commercial, industrial, and population decline and treading water are much to be proud of. And while...
County Government: What a Treasure!
Nov. 1 | 1. Did you see the story about Barbara Miller-Williams sending her county legislature staff out to do personal errands for her? Did you see that she didn’t deny it, but instead suggested that those workers were doing it – apparently without...
Lying Liar Chris Collins
Oct. 31 | Going to the voters of Erie County to debate, speak, and listen to them at candidates’ forums? Absolutely not. Go on Obamaphobic proto-fascistic Fox News and lie through your dirty whore mouth? Absolutely. Having watched Chris Collins lie lies...
Regarding a Political Opinion Poll
Oct. 28 | Hey, about those phone calls that voters are receiving purporting to be from the Poloncarz campaign, we’ll have some video up later, but here are a few issues: The Collins campaign has it all figured out. [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/news4buffalo/status/129995007955435522"] 1....
