Last Updated 12/31/2006
On October 5, 2006
on Erie county website- Joel Giambra on casino in Buffalo NY:
"Preying on the poor and screwing
small business isn't economic development"
Statement of Joel A. Giambra, Erie County Executive: I would like to ask the County Executive what's better? A Casino in Buffalo or Crack Houses in Buffalo? People Spending their Money Gambling and having a good time or Buying Illicit Drugs on the street?
Promoting integrity and fairness in police departments when it comes to police dealing with the general public. Non-criminals. Lets be honest folks when I grew up I was told the police man is my friend. The police man was their to help you and protect you from the criminals thus the term protect and serve. Well, I grew up and I know that's pretty simplistic, but a police man, police woman's, employing police department is judged by the public as only as good as the lowest common denominator (police officer) which is the worst police man , police woman, police officer.
FYI
If you Have ever read this website be fore you would know 2 things. There is , in my opinion no Justice in Justice courts and I don't like the way the Orchard Park police department has done business in the past. Now I will add the Orchard park Justice court and the way they do business. If I hear something bad about the OP government it will be a hatrick. Everyone knows when you show up in court on the date and time the ticket says you have to be in court and the (cop) in this case, the trooper that wrote the ticket was not in court and supposedly the court was not in session, but for some reason the court clerk was there at 7pm at night. (Logically if court was not suppose to be in session at that time, the clerk would not have been there, and the clerks office would have been closed at 4:30 pm like most government offices) Also the person ahead of you was complaining that they drove 60 miles because the ticket commands you to appear at 7pm on October 31,2006. This man most likely had kids, as this woman has, and had other things planned for Halloween, but because of the fear of not showing up and having a warrant issued for arrest these people like this woman showed up as they should have.
If the cop, the Judge , or the prosecutor dose not show up, you get a walk, a dismissal, a freebee, or at least a ACD, but not in Orchard Park. There you get a: We don't do it like that. We send you your court date in the mail. If that is so? Why do the tickets state you must show up in court for trail on such and such date or send in your plea of guilty or not guilty? If that's not the way it is done, why dose the ticket say that's the way it is?
I figure it's greed on the Justice courts part along with negligence, dereliction of duty by the clerk and the court and most likely a violation of speedy trail laws by them. At least it is a total disregard for peoples time, money, family time, and unneeded stress caused by a system that wants your money, accuses you of breaking the rules, but has total disregard for their obligation and the rules set out for them by the state and previous precedence by other courts.
People, not only me expect integrity from the courts, the police and government. We don't expect perfection, but we do expect the people judging us in the court room to be fair, to be there, or if not there, a dismissal of the ticket. We don't want some lame excuse to get at your wallet, take more of your time on a future date, and leave you in limbo for another 3 months!
In my Opinion taxes aren't threw the roof in WNY because IDA's are giving tax breaks to multi-million dollar or billion dollar companies to retain jobs or create jobs. It's also not because of untaxed sales on the Indian reservations.
I am amazed at all the outrage against the Niagara County IDA that wanted to give such a break to such a company yesterday. They had a public meeting. It's when these IDA's give tax breaks to doctors offices, dentist, pizzerias, restaurants, and hotels that have no choice but to be located where or near where they are located already, because that where their customers are that a crime may have been committed, or at least some kind of political patronage, or un-ethical behavior has been committed.
This is one of the main causes of higher taxes along with corrupt governments in WNY.
In all reality the only way to stop government corruption besides not electing the people that have been elected in the past, is to encourage multi-national and billion dollar companies to build in this area WNY.
Look at Niagara Falls Canada's prosperity, also look at Las Vegas Nevada, both cities with about the same population or less as WNY.
The more companies that come into this area that have to answer to their share holders and make an honest profit and actually pay their taxes that they legally are required to pay, even if they have received incentives of reduced property taxes or other taxes, the better off we all are.
It also relegates the criminal enterprise element from being the big fish in a small pond to being a small fish in a big corporate pond. The best example of this being Las Vegas. If you think that most restaurants or even businesses in WNY pay all there taxes, just answer this question. Why don't any restaurants still have smoking sections in them? It's because when the state passed the smoking ban, they made an exception for restaurants and bars that could show a decline in business because the smoking ban reduced their patronage and caused them significant declines in business. Because this is a fact, almost all bars and restaurants in WNY should have received the waver. But because so many of them under-report there earnings to cheat the state of NY and Local governments and lastly the people that live in this area out of sales tax revenue they collect by misreporting their earnings. The only places that where granted a waver where the state run OTB's even though the privately run bars in the OTB's where not granted the same waivers. The OTB's where the only businesses in WNY that could prove a decline in business, because naturally being a state entity they don't cheat on their state taxes and could prove a decline in business.
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The Bad...
Studies have shown that the leading cause of death in work zones in the length of the lane closures.
The longer the lane closer the higher the probability of death of workers or vehicle occupants. It's not the speed of traffic in the zone. Pennsylvania for the longest time had the highest fatality rate of any state when it came to work zone accidents and deaths. When information was gathered as to why, they found that they not only had extremely long lane closures, they used concrete barriers on both sides of the open lanes so when a truck would approach stopped traffic or slowed traffic and misjudged they would plow into the back of the line because there was no way to turn out of the way. So they implemented 2 changes. They no longer funnel traffic thru sets of concrete barriers and they no longer have work zones longer than a couple of hundred yards. Needless to say they are no longer the state with the highest work zone fatality or accident rates, they aren't even close.
This leads me to ask why route 219 had lane closures in place for over ten miles in length for over 4 months in a row and 95% of the time no one out their working. Most know that road was in the best shape of any road in western NY and probably didn't need to be repaved for another ten years. In fact I suspect the newly resurfaced 219 surface life expectancy is less than half of what it would have been if they left it alone. They could have used the new asphalt to pave 2 lanes to PA instead of lining the pockets who ever has the contract for the job. This leads me to ask what kind of kick back a cherry job like this commands 50%?
This is besides the point. It is negligent and highly unethical when local, state and federal governments and the police let companies working on roadways jeopardize the life's of the driving public by allowing killing zones like these to be in place so they can generate double ticket revenue in the courts. They know work zones should only be a couple hundred yards long at most. The construction company should do the work. Finish the work. Then move on and make a new work zone. This way everyone is safe. The only problem with safe work zones is it means driver's obey the law more often than not. They don't get frustrated by having to drive 45 MPH in a usually 65 MPH zone for what seams like an eternity, but actually is around 10-15 miles when their is nobody working on the road, or when there are people working on the road. A scams a scam and the public knows what is what.
I once drove to Las Vegas and lived their a 1 year and drove back to Buffalo. I had to go thru Denver and their inner and outer interstate loop, it had work zones signs all the way around the city. I saw about 50 cars pulled over by the police while on the system. When I stopped for gas, I asked what gives? They said the work had finish almost a year ago but they never took the signs down, so the cops are out their screwing the public. When I came back threw almost 1 years latter moving back to WNY the signs where still up and the cops where still out ticketing people almost 2 years after the road work was over. The only thing I can say about this abhorrent behavior is at least they weren't jeopardizing peoples lives with fake lane closures.
Nobody would believe the long lane closures where justified in Denver as in WNY RT 219 nobody believes the extremely long lane closures on RT219 are or where justified or needed in WNY, even if pigs could fly and we all believed the road needed repaving right now!
Ralph (AKA: Bucky) Phillips on 4/2/2006 Escaped from Jail with 3 days left on his sentence and shot a NYS Trooper. After 4 months on the run 08/31/2006 he ambushed and shot 2 NYS state troopers, trooper Joseph Longobardo Died of his Injuries GRHS on 9/3/2006 and was buried on 9/11/2006. I am pleased to say Bucky was captured by the NYS Troopers, Pennsylvania State and federal and local police on 09/08/2006 at 8 PM.
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The Ugly!
What is with the arbitrator that ruled for the Buffalo Teachers federation? Why, when the school board can save millions of dollars as other governments in WNY are doing for their constituents by going with one Health Insurance provider that provides substantially the same coverage as their competing companies, but offered a discount because of a higher volume of business they would receive because all governments in Erie county are going with there health care program would an arbitrator rule against the school board. Hasn't he been watching what has been going on in WNY the last couple of years. What the arbitrator has essentially ruled is the teachers deserve a choice between prime rib and lobster and shouldn't be forced to eat only prime rib.
Friday the 13TH 2006 Freak Snow storm Aftermath video by Buffalo/Niagara Airport Cheektowaga WNY.
Lets Honor Indian Treaties no matter how long ago...
Why when a store is painting their parking lot and they are required by NYS law and ADA and even if they aren't required by law, why wouldn't they make it easy for their disabled customers to park, exit and enter their cars by providing a access isle for each handicapped parking space...
Here is some common sense thinking. When checking out a noise complaint make sure your window is down part way, so you can determine the origin of the noise. A 16 second response time by Police is awesome, and a second drive by was great, in fact the first response was so fast I missed it and didn't see it on video until the next day. I had to get out of bed and ask the partiers to calm down myself at 4AM Monday morning. I got mooned for my trouble see video I was on the public sidewalk and they had door wide open and I made sure they saw the camera and they where loud and disruptive so they had no reasonable expectation to privacy, all they had to do is shut the door but instead I got a show.
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Cop Tickets the Handicapped for parking in handicapped spot.
