Thursday’s Links Worth Clicking

• Buerkle takes slim lead over Rep. Maffei in 25th District
  Preliminary results in Wayne County have pushed Republican Ann Marie Buerkle ahead of incumbent Democrat Dan Maffei in their race for the 25th U.S. Congressional District seat.
• Wildlife filmmaker Chris Palmer shows that animals are often set up to succeed
  “Shooting in the Wild,” published this year by Sierra Club Books, exposes the unpleasant secrets of environmental filmmaking: manufactured sounds, staged fights, wild animals that aren’t quite wild filmed in nature that isn’t entirely natural.
  Palmer’s book underscores the fundamental challenge of wildlife filmmaking: Nature is frequently boring. Wild animals prefer not to be seen.
• Syracuse Sporthorse Tournament at the War Memorial
  The Syracuse Invitational Sporthorse Tournament is expected to bring large crowds to the Oncenter and War Memorial through the weekend.
• SU professor elected president of Seneca Nation
  Syracuse University law school professor Robert Odawi Porter has been elected president of the Seneca Nation of Indians in western New York.
• Republicans Optimistic About Recapturing State Senate Control
  The question of who controls the State Senate will likely not be answered definitively for a few days – thanks to the counting of absentee ballots and re-canvassing
• NY’s `Rent Too High’ candidate: `Can’t quit now’
  Jimmy McMillan knows he can’t quit now – the rent is still “too damn high.”
• The Cuomos: Father Gets Votes Best?
  Andrew’s 62% gubernatorial tally (unofficial) is lower than papa Mario Cuomo’s 64.6% tally in 1986

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