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PM Roundup: Friday, February 17
Feb. 17 | A local law to ban cyber-bullying was approved by the Erie County Legislature on Thursday. The unanimous vote would make online harassment a misdemeanor offense with a sentence of up to a year in jail. The office of County Executive Mark Poloncarz says...
Semi-Fake Local News (Updated)
Feb. 17 | Design part of the "Buffa-Load" line at The Tommunist Gift Shop! Time for a local news roundup, that’s almost completely true! UNDER THE BUS? A preliminary vote by the NFTA favors a 25 cent fare increase, raising the fare from $1.75 to $2.00,...
The Unfortunate Death Of Six Sigma In Erie County
Jan. 30 | American City and County Magazine ran an article recently titled Trimming the fat-or-not with Lean Six Sigma by Stephen Ursery. The article refers to the success of Lean Six Sigma in Irving Texas and its failure in Erie County according to Mark Cornell...
Collins Returns Emergency Equipment Himself, Finds New Calling
Jan. 13 | "I like the globe that flashes red like our Krypton sun..." The Buffalo News followed up on the dramatic drama that was “County Equipment-Gate” by reporting that the disputed county owned “emergency equipment” that was installed in former...
Collins, County At Odds Over Coffee Mug
Jan. 12 | Parting (Mug) Shot When Chris Collins was Erie County executive, he drank the finest Columbian dark roast coffee that he purchased himself (directly from Juan Valdez), rather than the county provided coffee which he referred to as “rat piss”. But...
When Grandma Goes Bad
Jan. 8 | Only in Buffalo* could senior housing be a detriment to a neighborhood, and Jill Joseph Tower is becoming a serious problem in an area with too many problems already. Residents living near the complex tell us about drug dealing, all day drinking,...
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...
Unsolicited Advice For Mark Poloncarz
Nov. 27 | Running for and winning an office such as Erie County Executive is an accomplishment to be proud of. Mark Poloncarz starts office with a clean slate and an opportunity to make a difference in government. Leadership is a topic that I study due to my own...
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...
The Trouble With Mandates
Nov. 11 | The days immediately following an election are the days in which we search for the mandate of the people in the election results. If you are a Democrat and look at things that happened throughout the country on Tuesday, you may see a mandate that “the...
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...
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...
Petedorsements
Nov. 5 | I’m not sure that anybody actually cares who I think is the best candidate for anything. Hell, my wife doesn’t even ask me for political advice. I’m just one of those guys who has a “use it or lose it” mentality. Since stormtroppers...
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....
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...
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....
Podcast the Fourth: Dirty Republican Telephone Tricks
Oct. 28 | A press release from the New York State Democratic Party’s Executive Director, Charlie King: “The State Democratic Party is asking Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita III to investigate reports of widespread and fraudulent phone calls that...