Letters to the Editor

• Parents should support Southern Cayuga's budget
  On behalf of the parent voters in the Southern Cayuga Central School District, I would like to thank the parents and community members for their support during my past three years of service on the board.
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• Budget challenges more than unfunded mandates
  Do you remember the Sonny and Cher song, “The Beat Goes On?” At the last Auburn school budget vote, a beat was skipped and a large murmuring was detected - that being a significant percentage of the voting public. A congenital defect in the financing of public education was further exposed and expressed in various letters to the editor.
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• Taxpayers can't afford Auburn's school budget
  The following paragraph from Governor Paterson and a representative from New York State School Board Association puts the state's fiscal problems into perspective.
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• Assessment system in Victory is fair, needed
  As a Town of Victory council member and a voice for the entire town board I would like to offer the following response to taxpayer Roger Manning's published letter regarding Victory's latest revised assessments.
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• People losing rights to government
  First let's start with the newscast. When the state of New York increased the tax on cigarettes, this is a great thing, they said, more people will quit now. The next news brief, same broadcast: New York will generate billions of tax dollars. Next news brief, yet to be broadcasted, “Crime is up more now than ever before, reason: robbery of cigarettes, and gas to get away.” Oh no! Now there's not enough for drugs!
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• Someone needs to stop high gas prices
  Now, come on, you can't tell me that there is nothing anyone can do to stop these jerks that are recording record profits, but keep shoving the high price of gas right up our tanks.
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• Passing budget an investment in future
  Dear resident of the Southern Cayuga community: Teachers and parents - in fact everyone in this community# - should share a common goal: the best education possible for children.
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• Bring businesses back to downtown
  I'd like to say this to all people who own properties here in Auburn and surrounding areas - why do you charge so much for even a small space? You'd like to have people bring businesses and jobs to our area, but for real how do you think we can? Don't charge the little people so much to rent a storefront (downtown area) and maybe some more businesses would open up for our city.
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