The Barnard Fire Department holds one of western New York’s biggest parades and carnivals.  They been doing it since the 1920’s.  Thousands of people lined Dewey Avenue Thursday night.  It’s interesting that Chris Lee and Jack Davis both found the time to meet and greet these voters — almost all of them live in the 26th [...]

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Channel 13 is reporting Republican Chariman Steve Minarik is resiging today. According to WHAM-TV:

Monroe County GOP Chairman Steve Minarik

Monroe County Republican Committee Chairman Steve Minarik is resigning today.
Minarik has been the local GOP chairman since 1991. He led a huge period of growth for the party, during which the party took control of the Monroe [...]

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I couldn’t find Joseph Spector’s article in the online version of the D&C McPaper, so I can’t link to it, but a day or two ago Spector wrote a story on how a lead poisoning bill that passed the State Senate didn’t pass the Democrat controlled State Assembly.  The Senate Bill was sponsored by Senator Joe [...]

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Friends, according to a story in the New York Daily News,  in 2001, a staffer of an Upstate Assembly member accused one of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s top aides of rape.
Elizabeth Crothers, 32, brought up an internal Assembly complaint shortly after the accused rape took place by then-Silver counsel Michael Boxley.  She and her Assembly boss [...]

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