Humpty Dumpty

Perhaps If They’d Owned Their Own Homework in the First Place

September 20, 2012 County Government

Another quote of the day. Mine. Pretty obnoxious, huh? In this case, the day was March 20, 2012. this is what I said when the Albany County Legislature first became aware of the projected costs for a new nursing home that their own leadership had submitted to the State as part of a certificate of […]

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We Have a New Candidate for Humpty Dumpty

March 21, 2012 Budget

We said here that it seemed that the leadership of the Albany County Legislature was trying to cover their tracks by confusing everyone. Are they succeeding? Here’s the latest story from the Times Union. We’ll get to the substance later, but at least the State Health Department isn’t buying what Shawn Morse is selling: What’s […]

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Down is Up; Up is Down

November 29, 2011 Budget

A year ago, the Albany County Legislature’s Chairman of the Audit & Finance Committee, charged the Commissioner of Management & Budget (me) of artificially suppressing revenue estimates in order to create an argument supporting drastic cuts – that is the revenue numbers were too low. And so with that as backdrop, he and his co-conspirators […]

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