Oct 17
2012
Binder full of women …
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Oct 17
2012
Oct 17
2012
An elected official in the Town of Alden hasn’t paid his property taxes in more than five years and is in peril of losing his home to foreclosure. Carl E. Fix, highway superintendent for the town, and his wife, Ann, own a home and adjoining vacant lot on Broadway with an assessed value of $72,100. But the county, the town and the Alden Central School District haven’t received a dime in property taxes for either property since 2007. The couple now owes more than $33,000, according to county records. (Here is the payment history for the house and the vacant[...]
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2012
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2012
Oct 16
2012
The University at Buffalo announced yesterday that it is teaming up with 20 other universities to create a series of white papers on policy and research priorities to protect the Great Lakes basin. The team will address how the watershed can be better managed and what the environmental, social, economic and political impacts would be if those management plans were put into effect, according to a release from UB. Kathryn Friedman, director of cross-border and international research and research professor of law and policy at the UB Regional Institute in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, is the U.S. lead[...]
Oct 15
2012
The EPA reports there are no detectable levels of volatile organic compounds near Hillcrest Industries in Attica, where a huge pile of unprocessed recyclable glass and plastic caught fire. The fire was officially extinguished Sunday, according to an EPA press release. Now, the EPA is reducing the size of the 40-foot, 50,000-ton pile into more manageable piles. The EPA will monitor the temperature of the pile until the material is either used or removed from the property. The fire was discovered in May after residents started reporting an odor coming from the property. The state Department of Environmental Conservation and the EPA have been working[...]
Oct 15
2012
Politico reports the Internal Revenue Services does little to police non-profit spending on political spending. Politico terms the IRS a “toothless tiger.”
Oct 14
2012
Paul Krehbiel reflects on the underground press in Buffalo during the Vietnam war.