How do you know July is coming? Sweet corn’s starting to rise above ankle length, strawberries are ready for picking and Your State Legislature ™ is about to call it a year.
Among the things they’re not doing: Capping your school taxes. Eeen though that’s what you want. However, they keep on doing what they’re best at: Blaming each other.
Your state government:
Is protecting you from burdensome regulation that could drive up the cost of a wine slushie.
Is calling the big cigarette tax hike a success.
Is trying to undo an “oopsie” that could bust a whole lotta bad people out of jail.
Is under the gun to raise judges’ pay, or else.
But your property and school taxes? Pfffft. Little stuff. They’ll get to it next year.
Health news:
The Legislature appears closer than ever to making medical marijuana legal, even though the feds ignore the state law and prosecute the glaucoma sufferer anyway.
The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: They’re in New York!
And Tonight On Action News: Your shower curtain can kill you!!!!!!! (Incidentally, you gotta love any reporter who suggests wearing a gas mask into the shower.)
Elsewhere:
A bailout plan for NYC’s OTB may wind up with a state takeover of all OTBs.
Some local librarians want to join the state pension system. Guess who’s saying no?
Fun With Numbers:
Bloomy’s the top choice for Gov, but he says he doesn’t want the job.
Gov. Paterson’s getting good reviews from the common folk, who are worried about taxes.
And most folks support the Gov’s same-sex marriage change. He’s getting lots more attention for it than he thought he would.
Apropos of Not-Very-Much:
Frenchman scales NY Times building to make a point about global warming. Indict him? Oui, says the prosecutor. Non, says the grand jury. Merci, says the Frenchman.
Rochester asks companies if they’d like to lose millions of dollars, just like the city did. The response: The sound of crickets.
An old shipwreck’s found in Lake Ontario.
They feel just like kids again.
And here’s something new you can get on Craigslist: Robbed.
Today’s Person Who Watched The Clue Bus Pull Out Of The Station Without Him.
And my Pick O’ The Day:
If they shorten the competition, will more contestants be able to avoid barfing?
What’d I miss? Drop a sarcastic comment or a link in the comments.
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