Stephanie Miner wins

Stephanie Miner wins Originally uploaded by Phil At Sun  Stephanie Miner took 50% of the vote in a three way race--a very solid showing--and became the first woman elected Mayor in a Big 5 city in New York State. So much for my lawn sign jinx. After only backing losers for years I'm 3-0 …

Is There Anyone Alive Out There?

An Interesting little discussion has begun over at Sean Kirst's blog entitled Is Facebook Killing Blogging? It developed out of a phone conversation that I had with Sean about a totally different topic, but morphed into whether or not folks are more likely to post onto Facebook or Twitter than craft a blog post these …

Syracuse Mayoral Candidates On Crime

Fifth in a series. The community organization I work for organized an issues forum with the three candidates running for Mayor of Syracuse. These highly subjective and biased ruminations on the candidate's remarks (I have endorsed and volunteer for Stephanie Miner) are solely those of your humble blogger and may not be reproduced without the …

Steve Kimatian On Funding Priorities

Steve Kimatian Fourth in a series. The community organization I work for organized an issues forum with the three candidates running for Mayor of Syracuse. These highly subjective and biased ruminations on the candidate's remarks (I have endorsed and volunteer for Stephanie Miner) are solely those of your humble blogger and may not be reproduced …

Otis Jennings On Illegal Trash Set Outs

Otis Jennings Third in a series. The community organization I work for organized an issues forum with the three candidates running for Mayor of Syracuse. These highly subjective and biased ruminations on the candidate's remarks (I have endorsed and volunteer for Stephanie Miner) are solely those of your humble blogger and may not be reproduced …

Stephanie Miner And CDBG Funding

Stephanie Miner Second in a series. The community organization I work for organized an issues forum with the three candidates running for Mayor of Syracuse. These highly subjective and biased ruminations on the candidate's remarks (I have endorsed and volunteer for Stephanie Miner) are solely those of your humble blogger and may not be reproduced …

Syracuse Mayoral Candidates On Vacant Houses.

First in a series. The community organization I work for organized an issues forum with the three candidates running for Mayor of Syracuse. These highly subjective and biased ruminations on the candidate's remarks (I have endorsed and volunteer for Stephanie Miner) are solely those of your humble blogger and may not be reproduced without the …

“Turn off the lights, the party’s over . . .”

"Turn off the lights, the party's over . . ." Originally uploaded by Phil At Sun As good a visual representation of the changing of the guard as you're going to get. The empty suits, image politicians and party hacks can call it a day. Joe Nicoletti? Three strikes and you're out. Van Robinson? Council …

Landlords (Heart) Joe, Christians (Heart) Otis, Women (Heart) Stephanie

Since I actually received a request from a long-time reader and fellow blogger asking me to continue discussing the upcoming Syracuse Mayoral campaign, here we go: 1) Joe Nicoletti probably figures he can't win many votes in the liberal heartland of Syracuse, the University eastside, home of the powerhouse 17th Ward Democratic committee. But he …

Two Thoughts On The Syracuse Mayoral Race

1) Joe Nicoletti is using allies with extensive feminist credibility to attack Stephanie Miner in nasty sexist terms. In Council President Bea Gonzalez's endorsement she stated: "We've all seen Councilor Miner in her public persona and I'm looking for leadership that is more even tempered and has a sense of fairness that I have not …