Welcome to the Finger Lakes! Our theme song:


In a town this size, there's no place to hide
Everywhere you go, you meet someone you know...
In a smokey bar, in the backseat of your car
In your own little house, someone's sure to find you out
What you do and what you think
What you eat and what you drink...

(Kieran Kane)

Monday, February 7, 2011

Cuomo to nix more personal cars?


Does your boss provide you a free personal car?  Once again, we learn that struggling Finger Lakes taxpayers are doing just that for some of our privileged state employees:
When Gov. Andrew Cuomo publicly rejected $20,000 raises for 28 State Police top brass in mid-January, he didn't immediately mention the unmarked cars they and 1,400 other officers drive home.
However, the administration says with proposed budget cuts it's looking at whether the government needs to buy, fuel and maintain nearly 60,000 vehicles in state fleets. Those include nearly 3,500 trooper cars, almost half individually assigned to investigators and command officers because they may get called to duty from home, although some seldom do.
State police say they don't keep track of recalls to duty from home, though a comptroller's audit nearly two decades ago said cars used for commuting had become "an unwritten condition of
employment."
No doubt this is just the tip of the iceberg.  Video at YNN.

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