Milepost #101 on this Long, Strange Trip

With our first post going up, March 15, 2007, and our blog officially launched, March 25, 2007, the posts just keep on posting. At post #101, we’re into the next century of posts, with no end in sight. The full text of each is available via the archive on the left. Here they are:

1. Thursday, March 15 Let the Sun Shine In...
2. Sunday, March 25 Shouldn't Council Have Access to Public Documents?
3. Thursday, March 29 Does Geneva Have the Highest Taxes in the Country?
4. Monday, April 2 Conflicted Interests: City Staff, Geneva IDA, and the Attorney General
5. Tuesday, April 3 A Tax Exemption Would Be Good, but a Lower Tax Rate Would Be Better
6. Friday, April 6 'Tax Exempts' vs. Tax Exemptions
7. Tuesday, April 10 Putting the 305 Main Street Decision on a Solid Foundation
8. Friday, April 13 Beckley to Put Down Pen and Take Up Sword?
9. Monday, April 16 A Case Study in What We Call "The Back Room" and why it's not always a good thing
10. Wednesday, April 18 1,000 Hits!
11. Thursday, April 19 Reorienting City Council
12. Monday, April 23 Can We Expect Different Results From The Same Old Efforts?
13. Thursday, April 26, Latest Radio Interview Available Online
14. Thursday, April 26 The Mayor Reminds Us Why This Website Is Necessary
15. Monday, April 30 Memo on Tax Exempts Now Available
16. Tuesday, May 1 Property Sale Compromise in The Works: Photo Essay Highlights Church and Land
17. Thursday, May 3 The Local Impact of Federal Programs: Arcuri’s Message About Fire Grants
18. Tuesday, May 8 County Supervisors Take Charge of Wayward Loan Program
19. Saturday, May 12 Blog Gets More Hits Than DiMaggio, Mantle, Ruth, or Williams
20. Tuesday, May 15 Time to Can “The Can”?
21. Monday, May 21 A Celebration of our 1001st Visitor!
22. Tuesday, May 22 Hindsight is 20/20: ReRuns of Meeting Show “New Business” is the Same Old Business
23. Friday, May 25 Correcting Council’s “Revisionist History” with Real Facts
24. Sunday, May 27 “Curfew” not really a curfew, But It’s Still A Good Idea
25. Monday, June 4 City Manager Evaluation is Council’s Primary Responsibility
26. Thursday, June 7 4256 Hits, 1 Error
27. Saturday, June 9 Q: What’s Black and White and Green All Over? A: Hybrid Police Cars in Ohio
28. Thursday, June 14 Radio Appearance Friday 8:35am on 1240 AM
29. Wednesday, June 20 If You Were the Mayor/ A Call for Reader Responses
30. Saturday, June 23 Mayor’s Comments Heavy on Emotion, Light on Fact
31. Monday, June 25 Not All Property Tax Relief Is Created Equal
32. Thursday, June 28 To Post or Not to Post? That is the Question
33. Sunday, July 1 Upstate Economic Development Under “The Gun”
34. Thursday, July 5 Why Employee Health Matters
35. Wednesday, July 11 1,500 Visitors Later: A Checklist of “No Strings” Posts
36. Tuesday, July 17 Sharing Services in the Name of Community: City, Town, and County Have to Get it Together
37. Saturday, July 28 City Manager's Multi-Year "Plan" is a Multi-Year Disaster: Council Must Assert Itself
38. Wednesday, August 1 Republicans Go "the Blog Way": Beckley and D'Amico Flip Flop, Join Democrats in Criticism of Cass
39. Friday, August 10 An Information "Lock Down" Doesn't Serve the Public Interest
40. Monday, August 13 Community Forum for Youth
41. Thursday, August 16 Youth Gun Violence is the Immediate Problem: Gun Lobbyist Doesn't Get It
42. Thursday, August 23 Why Won't Council Meet?
43. Sunday, August 26 Empire Zone or Twilight Zone?
44. Thursday, August 30 Council Meets--Finally, with Some Positive Results; but the Finger Lakes Times is nowhere in sight
45. Monday, September 3 A Great Leap Forward: 2,052 will be a leap year; it’s also how many people have logged on
46. Monday, September 10 Sorry, Scare Tactics Won't Work: Geneva is No Batavia
47. Sunday, September 16 Rich Rising's Rising Riches--Part I: If Cass gets his way, the budget will include another increase for the city manager
48. Thursday, September 20 Have We Made An Error?
49. Sunday, September 23 Rethinking City Living: Efforts to Reinvigorate Our Neighborhoods
50. Friday, September 28 A Tax Decrease in 2008 Is Possible! Here's How:
51. Wednesday, October 3 Attack the Messengers, Then Steal Their Message? Critics Want Readers to Focus on Us, Rather Than on Our Efforts
52. Friday, October 5 Rich Rising's Rising Riches Part II: Let's Be Responsible and Fair
53. Monday, October 8 Augustine Needs to "Man Up" About Community Aide Position
54. Sunday, October 14 0% ? How About Less Than 0% ? Five Steps to Lowering the Tax Rate, Increasing Services and Helping Seniors
55. Monday, October 22 Danny Boy, The Pipes Are Really Calling: Time to Stop City Subsidies for Town Water and Sewer Usage
56. Monday, November 5 Augustine's Open Letter to the Times' Editorial Board
57. Tuesday, November 13 Margin of Error May Be Larger Than Margin of Victory: Do You Know Your Voter Rights?
58. Friday, November 23 If the Machine is Broken, Fix It
59. Tuesday, November 23 Does Gundersen Have the Prescription for Geneva?
60. Wednesday, November 28 Public Involvement in Choosing a Public Leader? This Novel Concept is Stranger than Fiction
61. Thursday, November 29 Will Candidates Get Answers Before Election is Certified?
62. Monday, December 3 Lakefront Consultants Stage 'Community Input Theater' at Smith
63. Sunday, December 16 "Unshackle Upstate": A Petition to the Local Warden Might Be More Effective
64. Wednesday, December 26 "City Attorney" is a Lucrative Post
65. Monday, December 31 Are Capraro and Augustine Good for Geneva? Have a Listen
66. Friday, January 4 So Much For Unity
67. Saturday, January 5 A New Year's "Resolution" for Geneva City Council
68. Wednesday, January 9 Horn is tip of the ISO-berg: A case study in how not to study cases
69. Friday, January 11 "I Live NY" is an Idea Whose Time Has Come
70. Tuesday, January 15 Step Up To The Plate
71. Wednesday, January 16 Top Ten Clues A Search Is Over Before It Begins
72. Wednesday, January 23 "Voting Machine-Gate?": Re-Set Machine Poses Problem for AG Inquiry
73. Monday, January 28 'He Said/He Said' Isn't News and It Doesn't Serve the Public Interest
74. Tuesday, January 29 "Geneva City Manager"--An Attractive Post in an Attractive City
75. Friday, February 1 Understanding the Cost of 'Interim Legal Services'
76. Monday, February 4 City Hall Installs Revolving Door
77. Thursday, February 7 Separation, Fusion, Inversion: The 'City Manager' Post in Geneva City Government
78. Sunday, February 10 Opening the 2008 Radio Interviews With Open Government
79. Sunday, February 17 "Keep your eye on the ball," but Pay Attention to The Rules of the Game
80. Tuesday, February 19 The Latest Bloggers' Appearance on WGVA
81. Friday, February 22 Is A Tax Cap the Answer?
82. Sunday, February 24 Questions Prove That More Answers Are Needed
83. Thursday, February 28 We've Dealt With the Horn, Now How About the Whistle
84. Tuesday, March 4 Who Gets the Most Votes? Rethinking Representation
85. Friday, March 7 Accidental Bloggers
86. Friday, March 14 To Shadow Means to Follow or to Shade
87. Sunday, March 16 Why Did Spitzer Resign? Notes on 'Public' and 'Private' in Civic Life
88. Tuesday, March 18 March 16-22 is "National Sunshine Week"
89. Wednesday, March 19 Council Does the Right Thing on Ethanol
90. Thursday, March 20 NoStringsGeneva.com Celebrates First Birthday, Receives Bloggy Award
91. Tuesday, March 25 "Happy Birthday to the blog": WGVA's Ted Baker Hosts Party for Bloggers
92. Thursday, April 3 A Fact-Based Point of View on the Total Cost of Legal Services
93. Sunday, April 6 Fat Cats and Starving Artists: Keep Arts-Based Development Arts-Based
94. Wednesday, April 9 Accountability 101: The City Has Itself to Blame for the "305" Fiasco
95. Monday, April 14 Accountability 102 (Part I): Maybe No News is Good News When It Comes to the Local Paper
96. Wednesday, April 16 Accountability 102 (Part II): Who's Pressing the Press?
97. Saturday, April 26 Accountability 102 (Part III): Retrospective on Finger Lakes Times 305 Coverage
98. Thursday, May 1 Somebody Please Send www.nostringsgeneva.com to editor@fltimes.com
99. Friday, May 2 Accountability 101 (Part II):What Actually Happened at the 305 Hearings
100. Thursday, May 15 Local Retirees Head to "the Beach"
101. Saturday, May 17 Bloggers Discuss Three-Part Post on Local Media (newspaper) on Local Media (radio)