Day: March 21, 2025

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I’m angry. But I’ll close my mouth

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Every time I open up Facebook or turn on the news on the radio I get a bit angrier. 😡

Why do I really care? The things I read about only impact me incidentally me at best. But there is the dreaded comment box, which I often will click wanting respond, type a few words and click cancel. I’ve grown smarter as I’ve gotten older.

Nobody wants to hear my opinion anyways and if I do comment, it will only elicit a response on why I am wrong or uncaring. If I have something to say, my best venue is my blog where I have full control over content and now it’s presented.

Moreover, I don’t really care that much. My thing is making the best possible world for myself, saving money and investing in my own future. I don’t plan to stay in New York for many more years, so it really doesn’t matter to me how much of a shit hole our great state is becoming. I’ve never voted for the man. Half of decrees sent down from a high are ignored at the local level at any rate.

And the truth is... My opinion doesn’t really matter and it’s just best to close out and ignore the people I disagree with so passionately.

Full Market Value of Properties, Waterville, NY

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Here is an interactive map of the full market value (2021) of properties in the village of Waterville in Oneida County. Property, at least in the rural hamlet is quite affordable though incomes are quite low.

Workers Say They Were Pressured to Pay for N.Y.C. Election Jobs – The New York Times

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Workers Say They Were Pressured to Pay for N.Y.C. Election Jobs – The New York Times

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But poll workers in the Bronx described a pay-to-play scheme in which getting and keeping coveted jobs required contributing money and collecting signatures to help Republican candidates get on the ballot.

Their payments — usually $150 apiece and sometimes several times in one election cycle — were recorded in state campaign finance records as donations to the Bronx Republican Party.