Archive for January 20th, 2007
This is the cartoon in question.
Buffalo Police Commissioner, H. McCarthy Gipson, was very upset when interviewed by Channel 7 news. The video is here.
“I was chagrined when I saw it, I mean I was very upset. It’s in such poor taste that it’s inconceivable that the news editorial staff would allow something like this to be printed.”
After reading today’s article in the Buffalo News, I see the cartoon in a completely different light. In my opinion, the cartoon is questioning why information related to the identity of the Bike Path Rapist was so easily dismissed 26 years ago.
It was her phone call to Buffalo police that led detectives to the West Side home of Wilfredo S. Caraballo, the man who owned the car with the same plate number.
When police told Caraballo they were investigating a rape and asked him who was driving his car that day, he lied, police said.
Instead of admitting it was Sanchez, his nephew, Caraballo told them the 1975 blue Oldsmobile had not been moved in a month because it lacked insurance, police said.
That changed last week when police, going through old files, contacted Caraballo again. This time, investigators say, the uncle told the truth.
26 years ago, after the apparent first of the rapes, the police had information that very well could have led to the alleged Bike Path Rapist. It is a very legitimate question being posed by the cartoon — Why wasn’t this followed up more vigorously? It is not everyday when you have a positive ID from a victim, as well as the license plate number of the car he was driving.
[tags]bike path rapist, Buffalo Police Commissioner, H. McCarthy Gipson, police, Buffalo News, cartoon[/tags]
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The government endorsed monopoly on education continues to roll on in Buffalo, New York.
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - The Diocese of Buffalo made it official today, announcing its plan to close 14 elementary schools in Western New York at the end of this school year.
Speculation has grown all week and now the list is out, the schools are:
Infant of Prague, St Josaphat, Kolbe Catholic Regional, Resurrection and St.Aloysius Ganzaga in Cheektowaga; St. Agnes, St. Bernard and St. Rose of Lima in Buffalo; Most Precious Blood in Angola; Genesee-Wyoming Catholic Central in Attica; St. Barnabas in Depew; St. Hyacinth in Dunkirk; Blessed Sacrament in Kenmore and St. Edmund in Tonawanda.
Obviously, the parents who send their children to Catholic schools, or other private schools, believe that the quality of education is better than what their children would receive in a public school. In fact, they even pay money out of their own pockets even though they pay the same school taxes to support a system they don’t believe in. The whole concept is un-American. Parents should be the ultimate decision makers on where they send their children to school and they should be able to allocate the school tax money, that is forcefully taken from them, to support their choice of schools.
The economy in Western New York makes it harder and harder for parents to afford to pay the private tuition on top of the extraordinarily high tax burden. New York State pays more per public school student than any other state. The current amount paid by the state is over $14,000 per student per year.
In 1960 there were 79,767 students enrolled in Catholic elementary schools in the Diocese of Buffalo. In 2007 there are 15,612 students in those schools.
The Buffalo Catholic schools manage to educate students at a cost of just over $4,000 per year, with parents providing a bit over a $1,000 per student for tuition. The cost of these displaced students will now cost taxpayers an average of over $14,000 each.
We need a system of vouchers and/or tax credits that allows parents to make the best choice for their children. Not a system that encourages a monopoly with a poor track record.
School choice is the answer to the problems in education, not a government sponsored monopoly.
Source: WBEN 930 : 14 Catholic Schools To Close
[tags]school choice, vouchers, tax credits, public education, Buffalo, New York, schools, Catholic, taxes, government, monopoly[/tags]
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Common Sense will tell you:
“Melting Arctic ice won’t raise sea levels any more than the melting ice in your drink would make your glass overflow”
—John Stossel
Source: A Convenient Lie
[tags]Al Gore, John Stossel, global warming, junk science, convenient, inconvenient, truth[/tags]
