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almost 3 dollars an hr increase will kill small business owners raise it to 8.50 an hr. 8.50X40 hrs =320 after taxes etc.. about 250 per week take home=$1,000 per month if you are single you can live on that..but if you have a kid or two forget it!

Center for Government Research http://www.cgr.org/reports/99_R-1272_NYSFiscalBala nce.pdf "CGR’s analysis demonstrates that upstate metropolitan areas generally receive more in state benefit than they send to the state in revenue. Excluding the Capital District as a special case, the areas in which the disparity in share of revenue and share of expenditure is greatest are Utica-Rome, nonmetro...

Nope, it was me. I just cleaned this board up and still have the sponge in hand. I'm no longer putting up with people that are here for no other reason but to cause trouble. Don't like it, TOUGH.

New York Gov. David Paterson is now taking $1.6 billion worth of temporary, emergency measures to cover the state's December bills. That's while he's continuing to try to get the Legislature to agree with $1.4 billion more to address a deficit. Most of the immediate action involves shifting money from state agencies to the general fund, which must be returned to the agencies within ...

Two Tops Markets — one in the City of Tonawanda, another nearby in Amherst — were robbed within minutes of each other Saturday afternoon. The two may be connected. The suspect entered the Tops at 890 Young St. in the City of Tonawanda at about 4:19 p. m., although he didn’t display a gun. “He went to the customer service desk and told the girl to give him all the 20s,” said Lt. Lori Rank, ...

Did anyone else notice the difference in the Buffalo News Suburban and City robbery stories? In the Tops robberies in Amherst and Tonawanda, they offer descriptions of the suspects. In the city, there's 5 robberies, yet, not one description. Anyone want to take a guess as to why they're not offering descriptions of the suspects in the city robberies?

riverside ave is having a tough time today...that's two incidents for that street....if you've ever been there..not surprising..

Happy Thanksgiving, truthy. Good luck.

She looks a lot like Elaine Benes with eyeglasses