Finding Ulysses

A community forum on hydrofracturing – also known as fracking will come to Trumansburg on December 8. The forum will begin at 6:30 PM in the high school auditorium, and will include several speakers, including Trumansburg’s own Sandra Steingraber and a former Executive Vice President at Mobil Oil Corporation.

In these darkening days, Phoulao bringing us a video from when our village was warmer and lighter, and when the Trumansburg playground was still new:

A post-mortem Hollywood hostage primate crime disaster? No, a new music video by Trumansburg band Radio The Ape:

The Obama administration is saying that they are likely to extend the Bush tax cuts.  Candidate Obama used to insist that he would end the tax cuts for those making over 250K.  He lied. Pataki cut taxes on the rich too.  The result of these state and federal tax cuts is an increase in local [...]

The Ithaca Journal has been doing some excellent reporting on our ambulance billing controversy. Be sure to read this article from Tuesday, http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20101108/NEWS01/11080381/1126/news/Ulysses++Trumansburg+ponder+how+to+pay+for+ambulance+service and this one from Thursday, http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20101110/NEWS01/11100386/1126/news/Ulysses+attorney+advises+caution+on+insurance-only+EMS+billing Aaron Munzer deserves a pulitzer prize.

Montgomery County Maryland has been struggling with the same ambulance billing question, that we have, for the past few years.  They have one advantage though, they were allowed to put the question in front of the voters last Tuesday.  Voters rejected the referendum that would have enabled a similar “insurance only billing” system that has [...]

I’m a liberal, and I’m happy that Democrat Mike Arcuri lost yesterday to Republican Richard Hanna. Here’s why…