links for 2011-03-14

Not at issue: whether a UAlbany graduate student has the right to view and copy property assessment records from the 1950s so he can try to “quantify” the political lore that the city’s old Democratic machine manipulated property tax bills based on party enrollment.

‘Girl Walks Into A Bar’ is the ‘first ever’ Hollywood film created specifically for the Internet.

“I would have expected a nice thank-you from Carl for all the hard work I had contributed, but instead I got screwed,” said Tim Suereth, who first served as manager of internal operations and later as an unpaid volunteer.

Just before 10 a.m. on Monday, as federal investigators searched the Upper West Side apartment of Richard J. Lipsky, a lobbyist suspected of corruption, other F.B.I. agents — who were monitoring wiretaps of Mr. Lipsky’s phones — detected a strange call.

Last year, Gillibrand did not release copies of her annual tax return, but that largely escaped attention because other New York delegation members don’t make a practice of releasing their returns.

Upstate school districts leaders and education groups are concerned that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget sharply reduces their state aid while sparing their downstate counterparts.

Rep. William L. Owens boosted pay for his congressional staff in the last quarter of 2010, but not as generously as some departing members of Congress.

If there is no training camp in Cortland this summer, the Jets would be required to hold camp at the university through 2013, according to the team.

An unidentified suspect is being held at the Cayuga County Jail in connection with the murder of a long-time Cayuga County Sheriff’s deputy late Saturday night in Scipio

State government’s top scientist on the underground features of New York has never weighed in on the contentious matter of drilling in the great Marcellus shale layers stretching beneath a big part of upstate

An important investigation: Nearly 40 years after New York emptied its scandal-ridden warehouses for the developmentally disabled, the far-flung network of small group homes that replaced them operates with scant oversight and few consequences for employees who abuse the vulnerable population.