Democrats Trying To Scare Teachers [ March 11, 2010 – 12:27 pm] by Jeff Posted in » Editorial

A few minutes ago, Jim Galloway reported on some numbers that sound scary. Someone sent out a memo today (I’ll get to who in a moment) that said that given the current budget crisis, either 14,000 teachers across the State would have to be fired or every single teacher in the State would have to take a 15% decrease in pay.

Fortunately, as he typically does when he can, Mr. Galloway also linked to the full memo so we could all read the entire thing.

After making such dire predictions, what does the author of the memo suggest the General Assembly do instead?
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Public Campaign Financing A Horrible Idea[ June 14, 2009 – 11:30 am]by Tom Posted in » Editorial

In the most recent edition of the Albany Journal, Jim Finkelstein wrote a letter to the editor regarding how our elected officials are bought and paid for by special interests.  Through the vast majority of the letter, I found myself in complete agreement.  That is, until I got to the last paragraph that said “Leadership can only come from the top, and we can only hope that President Obama will realize at sme point that until we eliminate all of the barely legal forms of bribery which currently exist and switch to publicly financed electoral contests, he will never be able to achieve meaningful reform in any area.”

While I agree that special interests have gotten too powerful in this nation, public financing of elections ain’t going to cut it for a whole lot of reasons. Read More …

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Carlton Fletcher says Drug War is ‘dismal failure’[ June 14, 2009 – 6:50 am]by Jeff Posted in » National

This is going to be an EXTREMELY short one from me – and everyone rejoices! :D

Carlton Fletcher makes the case for legalization in his latest opinion column for the Albany Herald.

Go check it out!

June 14th, 2009 | 7 Comments

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