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High School rankings

Posted on December 10, 2009 by iwilder

KW: The big education news is a list of top high schools by US News & World Reports. It is interesting to look at what kind of schools won (many are specific and/or mission-oriented.) Also, to see the US News & World Reports rankings of all states in regards to high school education. And, if […]

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Joe Bruno indicted: List of corruption in Albany…

Posted on December 8, 2009 by kwilder

A story at Elizabeth Benjamin’s Daily News blog showed that Former State Senator Joseph Bruno was convicted of 2 of 8 counts. – Kenneth Lovett of the Daily News did an interesting recap on disgraced elected officials in Albany: (excerpt from) The Daily News Joe Bruno, Eliot Spitzer and Alan Hevesi all part of club […]

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Which 8 Democrats voted against same-sex marriage?

Posted on December 3, 2009 by kwilder

2011 Update: Shortly after 10:30pm EST on June 24th, the New York State Senate passed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage! This time, only one Democrat voted against it. Story at onthewilderside: here. ______________________________ Original, 2009 post: (excerpt from) Time Union Gay rites still illegal Same-sex marriage bill weighed for the first time in the state Senate […]

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Behind The Working Families Field Operation: Candidates Pay Salaried WFP Employees As Independent Contractors, In Addition To Data & Field Services

Posted on December 3, 2009 by iwilder

from City Hall But even with Data & Field Services in place, through last year, the Party continued having campaigns pay for canvassers directly out of their own campaign treasuries. Though this staff was recruited, trained and managed by the Party, it is the candidates who were given the bills in a manner which avoids […]

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Nader to speak in NY and NJ Dec. 3rd and Dec. 5th

Posted on December 2, 2009 by kwilder

From an e-mail announcement by Nader supporter Matthew Zawisky: Ralph Nader [former Green Party, and then independent, candidate for President of the US] will be speaking in Bronx, New York on this Thursday December 3rd and in Princeton and Lincroft, New Jersey this Saturday December 5th. Ralph will be speaking and holding Q and A […]

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Money Into The Working Families Organization Buys Influence Over Ballot Lines For The Working Families Party

Posted on December 1, 2009 by iwilder

from City Hall Nothing demonstrates the connection between the Working Families Party and the Working Families Organization like the power the non-profit has over the Party’s political decisions. The Organization’s confidential New York City Coordinating Council Constitution & Rules and a not-for-distribution voting memo obtained by City Hall—backed by interviews and other documents—lay out a […]

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NY Times asks for financial reform in Albany

Posted on November 30, 2009 by kwilder

An overview of campaign finance and funding concerns in New York State government: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/opinion/30mon1.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2 Just one small item from a detailed article: “The average national limit for contributions in governor’s races is around $7,500 per election. In New York, the limit, if you can call it that, is $55,900 per person, more than the average […]

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Water issues, fracking upstate, etc. on WBAI: Tuesday, December 1st at 11am

Posted on November 30, 2009 by kwilder

From: Ken Gale Hi, folks, Exploding toilets.  Exploding wells.  Contaminated drinking water. This is what has happened in other states that have allowed Halliburton’s hydraulic fracturing process to reach natural gas deposits in shale. 

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Rev Billy prophetic: Reports say Bloomberg spent $102 million dollars

Posted on November 28, 2009 by iwilder

On election day, November 3, 2009, a whimsical post appeared at the Reverend Billy for Mayor of NYC website. Reverend Billy’s campaign claimed that, since he had just won $100 million dollars in the lottery, Reverend Billy now had a fair chance to beat Mayor Bloomberg for Mayor. Here is the headline: “REV. BILLY TALEN […]

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Oregon Tops Report on Policies for Customer-owned Renewable Energy

Posted on November 25, 2009 by iwilder

Advocates Release Third Annual Report Card to States on Net Metering, Interconnection Renewable energy advocates today released the 2009 Edition of Freeing the Grid, a policy guide that grades states on their current net metering and interconnection practices. Together these two policies empower energy customers to use solar and other renewables to meet their own […]

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Early polls for 2010 NY Governor and Attorney General races

Posted on November 16, 2009 by kwilder

These stats are great research for third parties to see who the competition might be for statewide office, and what voters are thinking about their NY government. There is a link to a detailed Siena poll with a long list of candidates. At the bottom of this post, I listed all the names-only of the […]

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Joe Bruno’s trial shows overall corruption in Albany

Posted on November 16, 2009 by kwilder

Linked at Elizabeth Benjamin’s “Daily Politics” blog at the same newspaper… (excerpt from) The Daily News Joe Bruno, Albany sleaze: His trial has already convicted Capitol’s squalid doings/ Editorials / 11-14-2009 Whatever its outcome, the trial of former Senate boss Joe Bruno has torn the lid off the cesspool that is Albany. Testimony elicited by […]

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Hillary Clinton for NY Governor in 2010?

Posted on November 16, 2009 by kwilder

KW: Wow! It’s funny. Hillary Clinton just said in an interview that she wanted to quash rumors that keep coming up that she may run for Governor in NY in 2010. I follow these things pretty closely, and, I don’t remember hearing that rumor. Oh, well. It’s not like we like to mention Democrats around […]

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Assemblyman Phil Boyle: Resdistricting Poster Boy

Posted on November 13, 2009 by iwilder

ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 8 Assemblyman Philip Boyle, a Republican of Suffolk County, often calls himself the poster child for redistricting reform. In 2002, his good Republican home was carefully drawn into a Democratic district. As a result, Mr. Boyle decided not to run again until a few years later when a Republican assemblyman in the district […]

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