Part 1
Friday, October 30, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Thousands join online fight against new NY plates
Published October 23, 2009 06:53 am - St. Lawrence County Clerk says it's an outrage to ask families and businesses to pay more for new license plates they don't need or want.
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CANTON, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York county clerk is carrying out an on-line petition drive to thwart Gov. David Paterson's plan to require all New Yorkers to purchase new license plates next April.
St. Lawrence County Clerk Patricia Ritchie said Thursday it's an outrage to ask families and businesses to pay more for new license plates they don't need or want when they are being battered by the ongoing recession.
"New York residents and motorists from as far as Plattsburgh and Brooklyn are raising their voices to tell Albany to stop picking our pockets to pay for more wasteful spending ... while our representatives add to their burden, instead of bringing relief," said Ritchie, estimating residents and businesses in her county will pay about $2.5 million for new plates.
More than 5,000 people have signed the petition since the Web site went up Monday to protest the new license plan, Ritchie said. Another 200 people who didn't have Internet access came to her office to sign their names, she said.
Beginning April 1, the state will require new license plates for every one of the estimated 10 million cars, trucks, trailers and ATVs registered in the state at a cost of $25 — a $10 increase over the current cost. If you want to keep your same license plate number, it will cost you another $20.
In September, the state increased driver's license and registration fees 25 percent.
The governor's office has said the new licenses could make $129 million for the cash-starved state, which has a projected budget deficit next year nearing $5 billion. The legislature last spring approved a measure authorizing the license plate plan.
"If the St. Lawrence County Clerk wants to eliminate $129 million in revenue for the state, she needs to suggest a way to replace it," said Morgan Hook, a spokesman for the governor.
"Is she calling for a $129 million tax hike? Is she calling for $129 million more in cuts to school aid? Because that's really what this petition drive is all about. This is the type of irresponsibility that led to the crisis we face today," he said.
New York license plates were last issued in 2001 and they need replacing for safety reasons because the reflectivity on many has worn out, Hook said.
"It's just pure revenue raising," said Myron Burns, president and CEO of Ray Burns and Sons Trucking Inc. in Canton, who signed the petition in Ritchie's office.
His company will have to switch over its entire fleet of 60 trucks and trailers. The registration fee hike in September already cost it more than $200 a truck, and now there will be more additional costs associated with the new plates to change all the company's overweight permits and amend its commercial registrations in Pennsylvania and Vermont, where it does some of its milk hauling business.
"It gets a little pricey," Burns said. "Just to say everybody should have new plates is ridiculous."
St. Lawrence County Clerk Patricia Ritchie said Thursday it's an outrage to ask families and businesses to pay more for new license plates they don't need or want when they are being battered by the ongoing recession.
"New York residents and motorists from as far as Plattsburgh and Brooklyn are raising their voices to tell Albany to stop picking our pockets to pay for more wasteful spending ... while our representatives add to their burden, instead of bringing relief," said Ritchie, estimating residents and businesses in her county will pay about $2.5 million for new plates.
More than 5,000 people have signed the petition since the Web site went up Monday to protest the new license plan, Ritchie said. Another 200 people who didn't have Internet access came to her office to sign their names, she said.
Beginning April 1, the state will require new license plates for every one of the estimated 10 million cars, trucks, trailers and ATVs registered in the state at a cost of $25 — a $10 increase over the current cost. If you want to keep your same license plate number, it will cost you another $20.
In September, the state increased driver's license and registration fees 25 percent.
The governor's office has said the new licenses could make $129 million for the cash-starved state, which has a projected budget deficit next year nearing $5 billion. The legislature last spring approved a measure authorizing the license plate plan.
"If the St. Lawrence County Clerk wants to eliminate $129 million in revenue for the state, she needs to suggest a way to replace it," said Morgan Hook, a spokesman for the governor.
"Is she calling for a $129 million tax hike? Is she calling for $129 million more in cuts to school aid? Because that's really what this petition drive is all about. This is the type of irresponsibility that led to the crisis we face today," he said.
New York license plates were last issued in 2001 and they need replacing for safety reasons because the reflectivity on many has worn out, Hook said.
"It's just pure revenue raising," said Myron Burns, president and CEO of Ray Burns and Sons Trucking Inc. in Canton, who signed the petition in Ritchie's office.
His company will have to switch over its entire fleet of 60 trucks and trailers. The registration fee hike in September already cost it more than $200 a truck, and now there will be more additional costs associated with the new plates to change all the company's overweight permits and amend its commercial registrations in Pennsylvania and Vermont, where it does some of its milk hauling business.
"It gets a little pricey," Burns said. "Just to say everybody should have new plates is ridiculous."
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Hunter arrows monster 13-pt buck in Moravia after seeing it during summer on trail cam
By David Figura/The Post-Standard
October 22, 2009, 5:38PM
Darren Moore, right, poses with his brother, Derek and the 13-point buck that Darren shot Sunday with his bow.Darren Moore shot this monster, 13-point buck with his bow Sunday (Oct. 18) in Moravia.Moore wrote: "I also enclosed a picture (below) from August that I got of him on my trail camera on my land. He weighed 188 lbs and gross/green scores 161 2/8 inches.
"It was the culmination of weeks of dreaming about getting him and to have it come true is like nothing else in the world. Keys to my success were guessing what thick area he was bedding in and staying out of there after I got his picture. I set up my on the downwind side and I caught him coming in to lay down for the day. He made a mistake to have the wind at his back."
The big buck was capture on Moore's trail cam over the summer.http://z4mp1.blogspot.com/
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Yankees win w/13th inning walk-off to go up 2-0 in ALCS
It was a game that neither team was sure could be played, thanks to a threatening forecast, but the rain held off long enough for a full game -- plus some -- to be played, as the Bombers grabbed a commanding 2-0 ALCS lead and remained undefeated in this year's postseason.
After the Angels pushed ahead on Chone Figgins' RBI single off Alfredo Aceves in the top of the 11th, A-Rod crushed his third late-inning homer of the postseason the opposite way off closer Brian Fuentes, a line drive that just cleared the right-field wall.
Dave Robertson pitched out of trouble in the next two innings, and Cabrera hit an Ervin Santana grounder to Izturis that sent home Jerry Hairston Jr. with the winning run, giving the Yankees their second walk-off victory of the postseason at Yankee Stadium after celebrating 15 such wins during the regular season at the new Bronx ballpark.
The Yankees leaned on their bullpen late after getting a two-run ALCS debut from A.J. Burnett that was mostly crisp over 6 1/3 innings, though he came unhinged in the fifth -- his only troublesome frame -- as the Angels scored twice to tie the game.
Angels starter Joe Saunders was just as sharp, limiting the Yankees to a Robinson Cano RBI triple and a Derek Jeter solo home run over seven innings.
Challenging a stiff, driving wind, Jeter's drive made it over the right-field wall and was his 19th in the postseason, moving him past Reggie Jackson and Mickey Mantle for third place on the all-time list. He trails only Manny Ramirez (29) and former teammate Bernie Williams (22).
Izturis led off the fifth with a ground-rule double and stole second, then Erick Aybar drove him in with a one-out single before Burnett hit Chone Figgins in the foot.
Allowing the Angels to tie the game on a wild pitch that caromed off catcher Jose Molina and sent the game-tying run home, Burnett completed his effort after 6 1/3 innings, leaving to a loud ovation but scowling after his 114-pitch outing.
Phil Coke and Joba Chamberlain escaped trouble in the seventh, and the Yankees also had to evade trouble in the eighth, which included a rare Jeter postseason miscue. The shortstop flubbed a routine 6-4-3 double play that hit the heel of his glove, his leg and then fell to the ground.
With Kendry Morales representing the go-ahead run at second base, Phil Hughes worked toward escaping that two-on, one-out situation, getting Gary Matthews Jr. swinging at a tight curveball before Mariano Rivera was summoned from the bullpen for 2 1/3 scoreless innings.
Facing rookie Kevin Jepsen in the ninth, Hideki Matsui connected for a line-drive single to right field and immediately yielded to pinch-runner Freddy Guzman. Brett Gardner followed with a looping single that bounced into left field, putting the winning run 90 feet away, but Cano managed only a soft tapper that sent the game into extra innings.
After Jeter had been ruled out on a fifth-inning double play in which he appeared to be safe, there was more controversy in the 10th. Second-base umpire Jerry Layne ruled Cabrera safe on a double play, saying that the shortstop Aybar had been off the bag. The call became a footnote when Darren Oliver got the next two outs to move the game forward.
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