Dunkin Donuts Stabbing

Elmira police have charged nineteen year old Samantha Conkright for stabbing a Dunkin Donuts employee Tuesday morning.

I bet they get her order ight next time she goes in there though.

CSEA members ratify contract

CSEA members overwhelmingly ratified a new contract for more than 70,000 state executive branch employees, the union announced yesterday. The vote was 29,755 to 1,839. The contract has to be approved by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

The agreement includes salary increases of 3 percent retroactive to April 2001 (when the previous contract ended,) 3 percent in April 2008, 3 percent in April 2009 and 4 percent in April 2010. Other parts of the contract include increases in longevity payments, improvement in downstate and mid-Hudson salary adjustments to reflect the higher cost of living there, and some increases in health insurance co-payments, balanced by a number of benefit enhancements.

The agreement is fair to employees and good for the people of New York, CSEA President Danny Donohue said in a statement. “The strength of the ratification demonstrates that our rank and file fully support the agreement,”…

VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: “How many more will die in ‘gun-free’ zones before the media start asking why?”

Elmira Parents May Need to Have “The Talk” with their Children

Jamie Lynn Spears announces she’s pregnant.  Elmira parents say they will need to have the “birds and the bees” talk earlier than planned.

• Sorry, I know we want to keep our offspring children well into their 30’s, but as soon as she can get pregnant, or as soon as he can get her pregnant, they are adults.  They are not very smart adults, nor do they have any wisdom or experience, but they sure as hell have the responsibility.  Have you prepaifered yours for that responsibility?

From WFSB.com (Connecticut)

Sandrama Lamy was charged with 4th degree sexual assault and breach of peace after sitting on Santa’s lap and groping him. The incident occurred at The Danbury Fair Mall. Ms Lamy was released and due back in Danbury court January 3rd.

All I have to say is what is wrong with people??

 Issues in the Twin Tiers: Elmira struggles with strays

Hundreds of cats. Thousands of cats. Millions and billions and trillions of cats.The city could pay a bounty of a few dollars to local kids to bring in cat pelts.

I am sure that the cat overpopulation problem would be solved in a few months.

Contests could b held, make it a community event.

Contaminated Children’s Vaccines May Have Been Given at Guthrie

A Guthrie Group spokeswoman tells WETM that their family health practitioners administer Hib vaccines supplied by Merck, which are under recall for a contamination risk.

It was a government mandated vaccine, if you did not get it for your child, your child could not go to school. So everyone gets it and it is a crap shoot whether your kid dies or not. I guess life is like that, and i bet there is an exemption for politicians children.

Study rips public-defender system in upstate counties

Public defenders in some upstate counties are failing to provide adequate legal representation to the poor, an advocacy group charged last Thursday.

If they do, why don’t they get better jobs so they can afford it?   Oh, wait, because they want me to pay for it.  Sorry, I had a senior moment there.  Theres a reason people spend an extra 10 years or so in college, it is to earn more money, so that we can afford better defense counsel if needed.  Just like if I want Russian caviar, instead of McDonalds, I go and pay for, I don;t expect Wegmans to give it to me for free.

NEW YORK — Federal authorities have subpoenaed financial records and employees in an apparent probe of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s 2004 presidential bid, nonprofit civil rights group, and for-profit businesses, a newspaper reported Thursday.

As many as 10 Sharpton associates were subpoenaed Wednesday to testify before a federal grand jury in Brooklyn Dec. 26, his lawyer told the Daily News.

They were told to provide investigators with financial records from the campaign and roughly six Sharpton-related businesses, as well as personal financial documents of Sharpton and his wife, the newspaper said.

The FBI and Internal Revenue Service are seeking the records, which go back to 2001, according to the Daily News.

A Sharpton spokeswoman did not immediately return phone calls or e-mail messages early Thursday.

An FBI agent who answered the phone at the agency’s New York headquarters declined to comment, and an agency spokesman did not immediately return a…

Dresser workers harassed, union says

Union members who have gone back to work at Dresser-Rand Co. are facing harassment and threats that they will be fired, the union’s president said.

Did the teeney-weeney-oh-so-cuddeley Union workers get ther itty-bitty-pretty feelings hurt?