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Here’s a shocker
Turns out, New York State’s STAR program failed in it’s primary goal – to reduce the property tax burden. It actually had the opposite of it’s intended effect – it accelerated spending by local school districts, which in turn raises the homeowner’s taxes. I really don’t understand how politicians think. If a whole bunch of…
Are you ready for this? Hang on. Literally.
Kids, you can’t write comedy better than this. Tim Tielman has come up with a plan to turn the Skyway into a park. Here’s the image and story posted over on Buffalo Rising. Now, let’s think back to all the reasons that people bellow forth as to why the Skyway “needs” to come down: It’s…
AMD coming to NY… but at a very high cost
From the WNY Progress Report: I know some will question the rationale in New York giving $1.2 billion in tax breaks and other incentives to a private company, but I think such questions can be easily answered in 2 ways: $2 billion in private investment and at least 1,200 permanent good paying jobs with AMD…
Pass on the redshirt treament
I’m sure Independent Health wasn’t thinking of this when they came up with their new ad campaign – “You deserve the Redshirt Treament.” They might have rethought it. This probably isn’t the image they wanted to portray:
The 9/11 conspiracy theory is a government conspiracy
At least that’s what South Park proved tonight, with a little help from the Hardly Boys. See… since one in four Americans believe that there’s a government conspiracy about the 9/11 attacks, it means one in for Americans (at least) are retarded. And since the government derives it’s power from the fear of the people,…
Bowled over
I really didn’t even intend to try and get Ice Bowl tickets when I woke up this morning. I figured with 75,000 seats the game wouldn’t sell out for quite some time. Then I said to myself, well, if I’m planning on going, I may as well try and get the best tickets possible. So…