Niagara Tourism and Convention Corp. CEO John Percy's attempts to justify his squandering of nearly $3 million in city casino and bed tax money would be laughable, were it not so tragic.
Rivera's latest political gaffe came in April, when he became involved in an altercation with former Democratic vice-chair Diane Roberts of Lewiston. Roberts said that Rivera grabbed her nose and pulled it, causing her physical pain, and then followed up his boorish behavior days later with an obscenity-laced phone call.
Returning this week from my beloved Cleveland, I was amazed to read that Mayor Paul Dyster took it into his head to squirrel away $500,000 in order to defend the gaming interests of the Seneca Nation of Indians here, should they be dragged into court following the odious decision of U.S. District Court Judge William Skretny that seems to conclude that gambling is illegal in New York state, even on Indian reservations belonging to tribes that have signed contracts with the government.
Sen. Barack Obama hopes his foreign trek will shore up his credentials and give the world hope that the next U.S. president will undo the contempt George W. Bush has shown toward international institutions and multilateralism.
OK, already, stop pestering me. We'll talk about the price of gasoline. That's all I ever hear on the street or in the office or in the grocery aisles.
To watch the contortions over that New Yorker magazine cover cartoon of the Obamas is to understand whom it is impermissible to offend in the America of 2008.
These groups spend millions and millions of dollars electing and re-electing legislators who support these narrow goals. The results are great for those small classes of people, but over time those results have become disastrous for New York state and those New Yorkers who don't have millions spent on their behalf.
The Niagara County Bicentennial Book jams 200 years of county history into a slick format providing thumbnail sketches of each location and subdivision of the entire county.
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