Monday’s Links To Click

• NY protocols backed for videotaping interrogations
  New York prosecutors, police and lawyers are endorsing the videotaping of suspect interrogations, now a common practice in many counties and considered a safeguard against both false confessions and defendant allegations of coercion.
• Battling winter gets creative: Herkimer using molasses, state beet juice
  The village of Herkimer Public Works Department will add a sticky substance generally associated with baked beans and ginger cookies to its operations this winter.
• Mother bear, cub electrocuted by downed power lines
  The state Department of Environmental Conservation says a mother bear and one of her two cubs died after they tried to pass under live power lines that had been knocked down by a tree felled by wind.
• Carrier Dome Helps Metrodome
  The crew at the Carrier Dome is helping another Dome over 1,000 miles away.
• News: Surprise! New study confirms drinking hurts college grades
• Hydrofracking foes, supporters both praising NY Gov. David Paterson after veto
  Gov. David Paterson managed an unlikely feat this weekend, receiving praise from both environmentalists and energy companies on the bitterly divisive issue of natural gas drilling.
• AP: US report adds details on Cold War Nazi intel
  Newly released records reveal details on how U.S. intelligence officials used and protected some Nazi Gestapo agents after World War II,
• Sales tax revenues surge in CNY
  It looks like it’s going to be a happy holiday for counties in the area, as they are looking at far more sales tax dollars than expected.
• Paterson looks at legacy
  David A. Paterson was at the right place at the wrong time.
• NY protocols backed for videotaping interrogations
  New York prosecutors, police and lawyers are endorsing the videotaping of suspect interrogations.
• 891 on layoff list, not all to go
  Unions representing state employees blasted the cuts, with CSEA President Danny Donohue saying they were done out of “political spite,”
• State says newly elected U.S. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle hasn’t paid her taxes
  The IRS dropped its claim early this year, but now Albany says she owes New York $7,036.
• Paterson orders hydrofracking moratorium
  New York Gov. David Paterson has issued an executive order prohibiting the hydraulic fracturing process of drilling for natural gas until at least July 1.
• Indian tax-free smokes OK’d until spring
  The Cayuga and Seneca Indian Nations can continue selling tax-free cigarettes at least until March or so.
• Local governments struggling to win the waste battle
  Due to a combination of market pressures, geography and disjointed government, Auburn and the towns and villages of Cayuga County are effectively putting thousands of dollars out to the curb
• Google Reader (1000+)
  A Virginia collector donated to the Library of Congress the largest trove of Civil War-era photographs depicting average soldiers that the institution has received in at least 50 years, according to the Washington Post.

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