Out of the darkness emerges the Republican candidate in NY27

Considering the star-crossed history of former Republican candidates for Congress in what is now New York’s 27th District, it should come as no surprise that the 2020 version should emerge from a secret hiding place somewhere in Western New York.  Okay, it was actually a golf club in Varysburg – no press admitted.  The Party leadership’s decision to hide their deliberations suggests that they are defensive about what they are doing. Continue reading

What’s happening at ECC?

Over the nearly five years that Politics and Other Stuff has been published there has been a post or two or twenty about the life and times of Erie Community College, aka SUNY Erie.  The College is an important educational institution, but over the past several years, like other colleges in Western New York, it has struggled with declining enrollment and increasingly difficult financial problems.  More recently there have been concerns about the leadership of the school, as this blog reported on January 7th. Continue reading