Finding Ulysses

A copy of the text of the proposed law to ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the town of Ulysses, New York. The last public meeting about this legislation will take place this Wednesday evening.

Rob Cassetti got 100 percent, but only of a tiny percentage of the village population. Only 82 Trumansburgers turned out to vote yesterday.

There’s an election today in Trumansburg, noon to 9:00 PM

Could Trumansburg Republicans organize a write-in campaign, sending lots of their party’s voters to the polls with a shadow candidate’s name written in on the ballots?

The latest online news from the Trumansburg Village government is from last May – 9 months ago.

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

Although Republican challenger Richard Hanna took more than half again as much money as Arcuri in general during the first quarter of this year, Hanna did not receive any donations from Trumansburg.

Arcuri certainly got some interesting telephone messages from Tea Party protesters, but perhaps more convincing was the $53,500 he received from medical industry PACs, and $15,000 from insurance industry PACs. That’s in addition to the amounts given by individual lobbyists.

Cayuga Street Democrat Blake Reid made a respectable showing, however, behind Nottke by just 13 votes. We can look to seeing Reid give another strong run in a future election, I think.

You’ve got to go take your ballot out of a concealing folder, and feed it into the scanning machine. That takes place just one or two feet from where people are walking in the door, standing in line, waiting for their turn.