U.S. Representative Peter King of Long Island is pushing a new meme: Native Americans in Upstate New York are in cahoots with radical Islamic terrorists and are using untaxed smuggled cigarettes to fund their plots. As reported in the Buffalo News, the evidence for this conclusion from King’s House H#^$&*#land Security Committee “study” […]

Spring just hit this area with a POW! this week. Everything seems strangely accelerated, almost as if summer is just around the corner. I can definitely feel a slowdown in the vibe on the University hill (in summer, of course, everything there slows down). I wonder if this is one of those […]

The Onondaga land rights action finally goes to court.

Tomorrow (Thursday, Oct. 11) is an important day for the Onondaga Nation and their land rights action, which was filed on March 11, 2005. The Onondagas are the last of the original five Haudenosaunee nations to approach the courts to ask for acknowledgement of title to lands affirmed as theirs in post-Revolutionary War […]

CNY Snakepit has a great evisceration of complaints about the pack of Empire Zone letters that were sent out to businesses around the state.
Slums Along the Mohawk (ouch! what a name) makes some similar points about the harmful nature of the way the Empire Zone program pits Upstate cities against one another.
Robinia on […]

Much as one would like to say that the sun never sets on the Empire State… it does.