The stock market remains in crisis mode as everyone waits to see how the government is going to bail out the financial sector.  At the time of this writing, the Dow has fallen over 200 points, and the S&P 500 and NASDAQ have both dropped by more than 2%.  Already, the blame game has begun.  [...]

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Your first question is “who is Tom Hasman.”  Fair question.  He’s the guy that the Cat Whisperer, aka Joe Morelle, got to run for County Clerk. Cheryl Dinolfo officially ended any remote chance Tom had to win, by announcing today that her office has completed the redaction of social security numbers on documents posted on the county [...]

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While Alice Kryzan publicly stated that she is against taking money from special interest groups, her new allies in Washington have launched a multi-million dollar smear campaign on businessman Chris Lee. “Kryzan should be ashamed of herself for this blatant hypocrisy,” said Erie County Republican Chairman Jim Domagalski. “Kryzan needs to denounce these ads as [...]

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In September of 1999 the action of granting mortgage loans to people who could not repay them began. According to a 1999 article in the New York Times: The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets — including the New York metropolitan region — will encourage those banks [...]

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Yesterday 60,000 people had shown up in Florida to see Sarah Palin. All this happened without a warm up band. Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin told wildly cheering, flag-waving, chanting supporters that John McCain is “the only great man in this race” and promised Sunday he will fix the nation’s economy if voters give [...]

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The New York Post is reporting that Charlie Rangel’s recently revised tax info shows that he makes enough money that his landlord could charge him the market rate for those rent stabilized apartments in NYC. Rep. Charles Rangel’s tax disclosures not only are an embarrassment for the Democratic congressman – they put him far over [...]

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