Today’s Links Worth Following

Every day, I round up stories that I think you might find interesting. Today’s batch includes research into whether noise affects your sense of taste; another village on the verge of dissolution; and a roundup of news from the political campaigns.

• BBC News – Background noise affects taste of foods, research shows
  While louder noise reduced the reported sweetness or saltiness, it increased the measure of crunch.
• Coyote population on the rise | theithacajournal.com | The Ithaca Journal
  They have had a presence in New York since the 1930s and their population has increased substantially over the last 20 years
• Pollster doesn’t put candiddate’s taxes in context
  A Tampa, Fla. pollster is asking 48th Senate District residents if they would view Republican Patricia A. Ritchie differently if they knew she paid her taxes late.Eastern Research Services isn’t telling callers the whole story, though.
• Pantagraph.com | News from Associated Press
  This election will be the first since the 1990s without a measure to ban gay marriage on any state ballot, yet the divisive issue is roiling races across the country during a time of tumult for the gay rights movement.
• The Education of President Obama – NYTimes.com
  The president who muscled through Congress perhaps the most ambitious domestic agenda in a generation finds himself vilified by the right, castigated by the left and abandoned by the middle.
• Hinchey Tangles With Reporter (Updated)
  Rep. Maurice Hinchey, who suddenly finds himself in the GOP’s crosshairs, had a heated exchange with a local reporter at last night’s debate that became physical before the congressman disengaged and walked away, according to witnesses.
• Oneida County village of Whitesboro to vote on dissolution Jan. 4 | syracuse.com
  Three years shy of its 200th birthday, the Oneida County village of Whitesboro — population 3,943 — might go away.
• Siena: Maffei Up By 12 In NY-25
  Maffei is ahead 51-39 among likely voters, with 10 percent undecided. He’s also ahead on every issue – from jobs and education to taxes and health care.
• Unlikely Allies in Food Stamp Debate – NYTimes.com
  Traditional, old-line liberals in the shaggy, idealistic, antihunger, antipoverty sector are joining with the nation’s food industry, which represents some of the most sophisticated, powerful corporate interests in the world, to fight the mayor’s plan to block the use of food stamps for soda.
• Arcuri leads Hanna in funding, some polls – Utica, NY – The Observer-Dispatch, Utica, New York
  Campaign finance reports filed Friday by candidates for the 24th Congressional District seat show incumbent U.S. Rep. Michael Arcuri, D-Utica, continues to lead Republican challenger Richard Hanna, of Barneveld, in total funds raised.
• Pros give Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo edge over Carl Paladino in Monday’s debate
  Carl Paladino’s best chance to turn around his staggering campaign comes tonight in a face-to-face debate with rival Andrew Cuomo.
• Ben and Jerry’s co-founder in CNY – YNN, Your News Now
  People who went pumpkin picking at a Cazenovia farm Sunday got a sweet surprise. The co-founder of everyone’s favorite ice cream brand, Ben and Jerry’s, was on hand scooping up his signature flavors.

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