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Thursday Mar 11

New Blog Post

Written by Admin 26 February 2010

The newest weekly column - Our Completely Deteriorated Political Culture -  has been printed in the Lockport newspaper,and will appear in Niagara Falls and Tonawanda on Sunday. Check it out online in the founders blog.
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Steal This Idea #1 - State Parks

Written by Admin 22 February 2010

If we're going to help ourselves out of the gridlock we are in we're going to have to start giving the government idea's on how to fix their problems. And we're going to have to literally give them the idea's - let them make them their own and take all the credit.

So here's an idea some enterprizing staffer in some office can propose to their boss to help keep our state parks open.

 

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Budget 911

Written by Admin 21 February 2010

$300 charge to taxpayers for each 911 phone call they make?

 

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Can We Do Better?

Written by Admin 10 February 2010

Why is it cheaper to process and deliver fresh water in Arizona - the desert - than Western New York?

Why is electricity so expensive in the shadow of a huge hydropower plant?

Why is a shopping mall vacant when 6 million people pass within one block of it every year? No retailer can make a profit with that many potential customers?

These things need our attention. Click to read the pdf document.

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O Captain, My Captain

Written by Admin 01 February 2010

FAIR's list of captains who wish to report on specific local government's is growing. Is there a government you have a passion for knowing more about? Would you like to be a captain?

To inquire about becoming a captain go to the "contact us" button and send a message.
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Steal This Idea #1 - State Parks

If we're going to help ourselves out of the gridlock we are in we're going to have to start giving the government idea's on how to fix their problems. And we're going to have to literally give them the idea's - let them make them their own and take all the credit.

So here's an idea some enterprizing staffer in some office can propose to their boss to help keep our state parks open.

 

Budget 911

$300 charge to taxpayers for each 911 phone call they make?

 

O Captain, My Captain

FAIR's list of captains who wish to report on specific local government's is growing. Is there a government you have a passion for knowing more about? Would you like to be a captain?

To inquire about becoming a captain go to the "contact us" button and send a message.

NT 2006-2007 School Budget

Thanks to Scott Schultz, a school board member in the North Tonawanda School district for 9 years; he's sent along an "old" budget, so we can begin to see what a comparison school district budget looks like.

 

PILOT Monitoring

Niagara County IDA PILOT Monitoring 2009

Don Hobel has forwarded a spreadsheet which shows the progress of IDA PILOT grants - Payments in lieu of Taxes;

Why so little usable data on this list? Why so many "N/A" in data boxes instead of data?

 

NF school budget 09/10

FAIR received copies of the past four years of the Niagara Falls School Dstrict budgets from the NAACP of Niagara Falls. A historical aside...

 

Niagara County IDA

 IDA's wield immense power within local governments - at least in New York State. But what, exactly, is their charter or mission? That isn't hard to figure out because it's in print, most recently in their Comprehensive Ecomomic Development Strategy submitted to the U.S. Department of Commerce in June 2009.

 

NF School Budget

FAIR has begun posting full copies of the budget. Follow the links to the data.

General Fund Budget 2009-2010

General Fund Budget 2008-2009

General Fund Budget 2007-2008

General Fund Budet 2006-2007

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