Saturday, January 28, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
Proposed Redistricting Maps
Information on the proposed new district lines announced yesterday for New York Senate and Assembly seats is available here. It's the website of the ponderously named New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment, known in Albany as LATFOR.
As a creation of the New York State Legislature, LATFOR presents information on the proposed new districts in the way that makes it as difficult and time-consuming as possible to get the essential, bottom line information most of us are looking for: which incumbent has what district, and how is that district changing.
We'll start posting visuals showing all this data together, for each Rochester-area Senate and Assembly district.
Redistricting
Here's the map of proposed State Senate districts for the next ten years. More redistricting news today on Mustard Street.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Gannett Conference Call on Monday
Gannett Co., Inc., largest contributor to the Monroe County Democratic Party through in-kind services by its subsidiary, the Democrat and Chronicle, will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss earnings results next Monday, January 30 at 10:00 a.m..
Dial 1-800-967-7138 at least 10 minutes prior to the scheduled 10:00 a.m. start of the call. Use confirmation code 9051644.
Or go to the company's website and use the webcast link.
You should call in, or link to the webcast, at least 10 minutes before the call start.
Unless you're on their list of financial analysts, call-in is listen-only.
The company will release its fourth-quarter 2011 financial results before the call.
A recording of the call will be available for two weeks, starting about two hours after the live session. Dial 1-888-203-1112. Confirmation code for replay is 9051644. Or listen at the “Investor Relations” page at www.gannett.com.
Can Gannett, "never a standout in journalism performance," be a standout in financial performance? Call in Monday and find out.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The Tips Pour In
Who has a better idea of what's going on in Monroe County's troubled District Attorney's office than anyone relying on traditional media?
Readers of the comments pouring in to Mustard Street, that's who.
More information in the last day in comment sections of the following posts:
Investigate the DA Scandal
Firings and Cars in the DA's Office
Transition Watch
Not Even Trying
Real Journalists in Rochester, After All
An Apartment on Water Street
Signs of Panic
Totally Non-Political
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Real Thatcher Legacy
Wasted admission money on The Iron Lady on Sunday. A shaky fantasy parable about spending too much time at the office, featuring a character that happens to be named "Margaret Thatcher." That and la Streep doing her Rich Little cabaret turn. For a hint of the greatness of the real Mrs. T, check out this:
Monday, January 16, 2012
Comments, Comments, Comments
Our readers have responded robustly with comments to many of our recent posts. In case you've missed them, here are comments on the the items that have attracted the highest volume of reader responses in recent days.
The truth is out there.
Maybe not in every comment, but it's out there. This blog exists to frustrate those media outlets that suppress it.
Investigate the DA Scandal
Transition Watch
Not Even Trying
Real Journalists in Rochester, After All
An Apartment on Water Street
Signs of Panic
Totally Non-Political
Sunday, January 15, 2012
"Civility" is for Other People
Froma Harrop is president of the "Civility Project" of the National Conference of Editorial Writers. She has called Tea Party critics of Obama's policies "terrorists" and compared them to "Al-Qaida bombers." The Daily Show's John Oliver asks her about it. Ms. Harrop is not amused.
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
County Legislature: Investigate the DA Scandal
Monroe County's outgoing District Attorney Mike Green is hired to head the Appeals Bureau in the DA's office.
Nothing wrong with that; maybe even a good idea. Green's smooth lying about it in a press conference and subsequent lying to explain the original lie doesn't change that.
Yet he then states he's not doing the work for which taxpayers are paying him $110,000 per year, plus benefits. It just happened to be an open slot in an organizational chart. "I'm here for one purpose," Green told the press: new DA Doorley gave him the job "to help with the transition."
The clock's running at nearly $4,000 per week, inclusive of benefits, for a job its holder admits he isn't doing.
After a few weeks, that's more than cigar-and-strippers money.
For unclear transition services that remain unstated. Transition services the world would have thought unnecessary for a new DA with 20 years of experience in the office, most recently as second-in-command.
Democratic and Chronicle news editor Karen Magnuson, following standard procedure for news putting her side in a bad light, did the usual one-off story, then total silence. Down the memory hole. Our self-proclaimed "watchdogs" are off somewhere, maybe sniffing each others hindquarters as dogs will.
There's nobody left to stand up for taxpayers footing the bill, or to ask the questions on their behalf. Except for our County Legislature.
Since no one else is acting, getting to the bottom of this scandal is as much a part of their job as keeping property tax rates flat.
County Legislators: Ask District Attorney Doorley for the information. If you're stonewalled, file Freedom of Information Law requests. If that doesn't do it, form a special committee to investigate, using your subpoena power to dig out the truth.
Such action isn't necessary in situations where the whole weight of the media is cranking out stories day after day. (Again, cigars come to mind, or a single incident of bad judgment at a Christmas Party by a competent and otherwise respected airport director).
Here, it's just you.
If you don't do it, apparently no one will.
Meanwhile, for taxpayers, the meter's running at four grand a week.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
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