RochesterWriters

In his piece on race, Bai manages to say very little, add roughly zero to the discourse and get several things dead wrong.
I’m not sure how it is possible to write about the Sherrod case without actually pointing the spotlight at the perpetrator – Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart’s hit job on Sherrod follows a familiar conservative trope on race – turn reality upside down, ignore facts, and cry “reverse racism”.

Andrea writes:
Isn’t it already their fair share if they’re paying the same rate as people making $40,000? If they make more money, they’re paying more taxes, the rate doesn’t have to be higher. They pay more taxes, but they get the same roads, schools and police that they don’t even use as much.
Good question. Why should the rich (the 5% of the population that earns over $150,000) pay more, don’t they already pay more  taxes? Well, yes they pay more taxes.  But that’s because they earn more- the top 5% take in a third of all income in the U.S.

Carl Paladino has a plan to stop a mosque from being built a few blocks from Ground Zero in NYC.
Hmm… Let’s think about this for a minute.

Why are New York City politicians now sticking their noses into a strike in Williamson?The Daily News reports that New York City Council members are now bashing Motts.

The Left, which can find "racism" in the weather report, uses the term so loosely that they've rendered it nearly meaningless.Still, they keep trying. Revelations from the now defunct JournoList, where liberal news reporters and editors coordinated efforts to help Democratic candidates and undermine Republicans, include the following.

Last night was a win for small business and common sense in the City -- two things not often achieved in Rochester as of late.

Saturday, amongst many other groups, the City Republican Committee marched in the Gay Pride Parade. I am a member of the City Republican Committee so was happy to be there to support my fellow city neighbors.

Six years ago, Sen. Charles E. Schumer urged company site selectors to take a fresh look at upstate New York.   He said Buffalo and Rochester were among the best places in the country to build a factory.

We're working on a story now going around the Hall of Justice, that the campaign of a judicial candidate, denied a Party's endorsement, sent out petition canvassers in an effort to mount a primary.At least one of the canvassers -- the candidate's spouse -- misrepresented, to voters at the door, that the candidate is the Party's endorsed nominee, and suffered the misfortune of saying it at the doors of two members of the Executive Committee of the Party that declined to endorse the judicial spouse! If so, it could be a criminal offense.

Who would have thought it?   Suborn a public office for political gain, and you .  .  . gain politically!We'll have more to say later on the nomination of a corrupt prosecutor to a federal judgeship.   Now, however, let's look at the political implications for a race for DA in 2011 if Mr. Green is nominated and confirmed to the federal bench.