I understand many of you want Christine Pike killed but now she is awake after two bites at the apple by the State of Tennessee. She is shackled to a hospital bed with severe damage to her arms due to the botched injections.
She faces a lengthy recovery to full health but society wants her dead now.,....Should life saving treatment have been provided ...Some would say no. And certainly the State doesn't want this person to be interviewed on TV.....
Be interesting to see what happens....,
Marist College has its poll out and it's an eleven point margin for Governor Hochul.....And inside the numbers there is a split in the suburbs, there is 51% Blakeman upstate and 69% Hochul in NYC.
The City margin can be overcome but not if upstate voters keep giving the Dem well into the 40s.And for the Nassau County Executive to be splitting the 'burbs...that tells a lot too. If you look at 2022, Ms. Hochul had problems upstate even in Erie where she won by a few points....But she carried the four Dem boroughs by big margins, and won the upstate urban counties along with crazy left Tompkins (Ithaca) and Ulster (Woodstock).
Republicans putting up a pro choice, pro gun control candidate who openly says he doesn't have to campaign North of the Thruway because he has all those votes there....And has to be transported in black Escalades....No surprises at the results. Oh and a running mate who adds nothing.
If this guy gets to within 8 he is lucky, especially after the Governor boldly appointed her Crackerjack AG to investigate the Cornell 7.
https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/midterm-elections-in-new-york-october-2026/
FOX News turns 30 today. All six TVs (7 counting my tablet) will be airing FOX in commemoration.
Another media note....the CBS 6 anchor first addressed the candidate as Anthony and not Mr. Constantino, Poor form. Just like the other night Jesse Watters three times addressed Rep. Donalds as Byron.
I often wonder with this generation of news people, if a local anchor sitting across the table from the President would call him "Don". I know John Moore wouldn't ...
The City Planning Commission, as expected , is against a proposed zone change for the Clubhouse and parking lot at the Ives Hill CC.
Jake Johnson wants the Restaurant to be able to operate independently of the golf course...It is now a non conforming used allowed as an appurtenance to the links.
Council will surely follow suit when the matter comes before them shortly. Going against staff and the Commission would be a bridge too far for the five lawmakers.
I'd like a carve-.out for my property since Council foolishly rezoned where I am......
What is better is to find a way to get the course back to 18 holes, but likely that ship has sailed.
WRGB says it offered both NY21 candidates six potential dates for their debate and according to the station Anthony Constantino accepted all six and Blake Gendebien rejected all the dates….Is a debate that didn’t happen constitute news ? Some will argue no and we will see who they are today.
WRGB did a half hour interview with Constantino instead…. That seems fair enough.
Clearly there will be no debate in the open seat NY21 race. For most voters it won’t matter but for some it will….
Today is the third anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel that killed 1200 in brutal fashion and kicked off a war that decimated Gaza and resulted in more death.
We now have a new generation of October 7 deniers who excuse the initial act and support those behind it all. We’ve seen the subsequent war and it’s full of tragedy, but the original event body cam video is still suppressed by the media. Thats too bad.
Something beneficial to kids is complete at North Elementary with completion of a new play space where old tennis courts were.
Hope it’s used and enjoyed.
The thing about government parceling out the franchise to sin is something news always comes along and those granted legal access to sin are mad…Case in point is gambling where the state has cut deals with legal outlets…Now things like prediction markets are cutting into the take of big casinos and Indians.
One thing about sin is once the barn door is open it’s hard to regulate the comings and going’s of the animals.
Buffalo’s mayor wants to curb the good times on Chippewa Street, where Bills Mafia and others cut loose in the Queen City.
Chippewa is the party district and Mayor Sean Ryan wants the fun curtailed, after a recent stabbing.
So did someone believe that cashing the Hochul check means you voted for her? The expectation is you will vote for her but signing the check is not a vote. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was set up this way, but it isn’t.
Contractor Mike Harrienger said today he personally dropped his $5000 check to the NNY Community Foundation two weeks ago. Last night Council Member Kimball said only $300 has been donated to the City to offset costs of the Christmas Parade.
City Hall has demanded $12K be donated in order to allow the parade they had hoped to replace with activities at the Library.
So the woman they tried to kill has awakened and is speaking according to reports in numerous media…Christa Pike was supposed to die from lethal injection last week and has been hospitalized in a coma, but is now said to be awake in a Tennessee hospital.
Ms Pike faces an uncertain future as executions are suspended the rest of the year, but some clamor for her to be killed perhaps by electric chair. Some say her sentence should be commuted. She has already done 31 years for the gruesome killing of a 19 year old woman.
The current governor is a lame duck so he could do what he wants without consequence….If as expected, Marsha Blackburn becomes governor, she wants Pike killed.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/06/us/tennessee-execution-christa-pike
No debate tonight at CBS 6 as Blake Gendebien took a pass and the race heads to the finish line with no face offs.
Mr Constantino is headed to Canada tomorrow to do a listening tour to get their viewpoint on bilateral issues….Good idea by whoever thought of it.
One of my moles tells me its been known for some time about that dump on the Gendebien farm and there was wondering why it hasn't come out...
We understand the DEC has been there, so it might indeed be worth sending a camera crew......
More people are getting involved in Neighborhood Watch...which used to be called, being a good neighbor.
Encouraging people to keep an eye out for crime and take measures to prevent it is all well and good.....the frustration is for minor crimes where there are few consequences.
The City policy is to keep arms length from Neighborhood Watch for liability issues but the police union has donated to the organization to put up signs..,.That the City is allowing the signs is a partnership, which is fine.
Does the Police or Fire department have people appearing on 7 News This Morning or Noon or other media outlets to discuss citizen concerns and what is going on to prevent and solve crimes...,,If not, why...? Of course that new communication. policy discourages that kind of outreach.
Wonder how the guy beat up on Jefferson Street is doing.? Well the answer is he is making progress but brain injuries are a challenge. Questions like that, no matter how innocently asked, are not what City Hall wants to hear....And we never did get a full airing of what happened in the whole Milly affair. The City didn't want to talk about the Harvest Festival even though I affirmed I wouldn't ask about the golf course.
President Trump has again made himself the story instead of the people he is campaigning for. He called the Dem Senate candidate in SC Annie Trannie Andrews....,What's the point of that.,,,
The White House also says Trump super PACS will start paying for those ads promoting the President .
And he used the crude phrase, "shove it up their ass" in a rally.....And to think poor Cliff is barred from the air for saying bullshit, a term now routine on the news.
Councilman Robert Kimball is again toying with the public on the Christmas Parade, claiming only $300 has been donated so far and that the City will not permit the parade unless the full ransom is paid.
Well, the finances aside, the City should stop its tin cup brigade to raise money for the boated salaries and vanity doors.
For the Doctor to suggest the Parade may now be cancelled again is reason enough he shouldn't be elected Mayor next year.
Costs related to the parade are less than the billable cost of one minor procedure done by Mr. Kimball's former colleagues. Is that a fair comparison ? No, but nothing about this debate is fair.
By the way, why do these donations have to be funneled through the NNY Community Foundation. Just make the checks out to City of Watertown at 245 Washington Street since that's where the money is going.
Dr. Kimball was Mayor pro tem at last night's meeting.
Anthony Constantino continues to try and keep Black Gendebien on the defensive...This time using a private eye to investigate allegedly illegally dumping on the candidates farmland in Lisbon.
Nobody cares about this kind of stuff. Refer the matter to the state and if they take action you have a story..,,.,.Of course a Hochul DEC wouldn't touch this.
Democrats smell blood in NY 21 but their candidate is not really saying much of anything..,...The strategy is to hope voters who vote find both Trump and Constantino something they don't want.
What is clear is there will be no debate, just more commercials.
The Republican candidate for Governor is now being criticized for his use of the state program for matching funds..,,,Bad enough, Republicans take part in this boondoggle but then they get caught claiming funds for ineligible contributions.
Bruce Blakeman apparently can't raise the big bucks to go after Governor Hochul who is slathered in big dollar donors.,,,You get $6 for every dollar raised up to a certain amount.
It would be good to look into how much local candidates are cashing out on this program but as broadcasters we know these state dollars end up in our coffers so we enthusiastically support all of this.
As for Blakeman, stories like this or the diversion from Cornell drive taxes, utility bills and regulation from the discussion,,,And Blakeman, who is the Conservative Party nominee, keeps talking about how he is pro choice and supports "common sense" gun control.
The operators of a tobacco, vape and beer store in Oxford Mississippi are arrested in connection to the deaths of those two students.....It would be great if our smoke shops could add beer to the their product line..,,One stop shopping. Maybe they have .....
You know its bad when the lefty loons are picketing Starbuck's where they get their ten dollar lattes ..
This is over plastic containers protestors say are not really recyclable....Hasnt the new generation learned that recycling is largely a hoax.?
Another person with a knife....This one on Court Street....And over on Factory someone trying to pass a fake Benjamin....All that and more on a Sunday night.
Don't use glass test tubes ? The 28 year old Russian research worker now dead from pneumonic plague learning a hard less in the lab and now there is attention worldwide...
People get skittish after the COVID experience. Saw Dr. Birx on TV...Havent seen her in years ..,.,Maybe CNN will dust off Dr. Fauci...
Damn, I sold my hot dog warmer.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/europe/russia-laboratory-plague-accident-intl
Keeping your opponent playing defense is an old strategy...Making him deny printing those stickers...or trying to explain an FEC complaint few understand...,Today Constantino is holding a presser to accuse his opponent of some kind of environmental offense...
The goal is keeping them denying...
Was it LBJ who said he doesn't care if his opponent beats his wife, he just wants to make him deny it.
People do vote for a candidate because they are voting against the opponent...Bruce Blakeman, who has no one voting FOR him, is hoping that's the case.
In the expectations game, Democrats are selling the notion their guy Blake can win in NY 21...Well, he can of course....Some chatter of late has indicated Mr. Gendebien is not campaigning a lot, but he may be, we don't know...
In the money wars, bot are up on TV and while Constantino is spending more, the Gendebien air presence is enough to keep the Republican on his toes.
One area of concern for the Mule is up in Clinton County where the GOP chair is said to be very much against Constantino to the point of advocating for Gendebien and telling people we an put up with him for two years and get a better candidate in 2028.....Good luck with that theory.
Three weeks to go and absentees are being cast and early voting starts soon.,,,The only big event in the interim is President Trump's visa to CNY on Friday, presumably to promote upstate GOP candidates...
Federal filings reported in media suggest Anthony Constantino has spent $16M of his own money on the campaign.
This easily eclipses Blake Gendebien’s early money………..The media loves it….
Getting rid of clock changes easily passed the House last summer but it’s held up in the Senate by Senator Tim Cotton…He,says it’s for the children going to school in the morning.
Let me explain again even for all the educators who insist on being called doctor…Instead of changing all time twice a year , change the start time for school from November to March, or whatever depending on the latitude.
And no, it’s not done for the farmers either. I ask Russ and he said one time is fine.
President Trump is doxxing Senator Cotton and has given out his cell number.
Get it done before November 1, so we can skip this ritual.
The former Vito’s opens Monday as DiPaolos ….Still a lunch spot and it’s being run by Core Life folks so it should do well….Heard a bar on State Street that had closed is back open and of course Colesantes is back with big crowds their first two days….
Quiet day here on Pearl Street as we ready for the stretch drive to the election. Looks like the Dems will pick up what’s needed to take the House…Not a blue wave but a ripple….Senate is a toss up as many seats are on the bubble. State races go to the Dems as New Yorkers hug Kathy and Tish a little harder………Chaumont is voting on dissolution…..I say it fails….
Our friend Liz Joy has been chosen as NY GOP regional chair for eleven North Country Counties....Ms. Joy is now the Schenectady County Chair and is pledging to get Republicans to work together toward common goals....
There was some time back antipathy between Ms Joy and eventual Congressional nominee Constantino…..Don’t know where that stands now.
Christa Pike remains in a coma following the attempts to kill her….Sure a nurse could trip over the cord to the ventilator but in the name of decency this woman must be conscious when Tennessee takes another bite at the apple…..And the l8kely new Governor wants it done in an electric chair…That’s smokin’.
https://www.kcra.com/article/christa-pikes-failed-tennessee-execution/74014611
We wait for the "books" on the golf course...Don't know how they are kept....in a fancy program on a computer....in the cloud or just simply in a Dome ledger book....By the way, that reader who wants me to show him the books....Here's a picture.
The fact they are being called the "Cornell 7" is highly prejudicial since it's doubtful their actions were all the same and some were more messed up than the purported victim. Add Letitia James, with no experience prosecuting such crimes and a clear and stated predisposition that the charges are true....And justice flies out the window....
The college President finally made a statement, saying they support the probe and want to find ways to keep the best of Greek life on campus.
The Jane Doe moniker has been ripped off by the Internet so she may as well book with 60 Minutes pronto.,
Legal is going to do very well with all this.
President Trump is campaigning upstate on Friday, visiting Syracuse to help his buddy Bruce Blakeman but also to help save NY House seats on the bubble....,,,.Tops among them is Rep.Lawler in the Hudson Valley who currently trails despite endless appearances on FOX News.
Anthony Constantino is also thought by some to need the President's boost, and he will appear with Mr. Trump in Syracuse on Friday. A Trump hug likely makes no difference up here but going to stand with Trump is kind of required
The NY 21 race seems to not be of much interest to national Dems as rumor is they have cut funding as polling is not favorable for Blake Gendebien....Mr. Gendebien has ducked the debates and has not been seen on the trail too much of late.
It's still a more competitive race than when Rep. Stefanik won but the talk is margins in high single digits.
https://nypost.com/2026/10/03/us-news/trumps-trip-to-upstate-ny-is-play-to-try-to-save-gop-seats/
With all kinds of drugs now pretty much accepted, one city in British Columbia is finding crows ingesting opioids found on streets and sidewalks. Back in the day, we never snorted Ketamine off some chicks ass but I guess that is done today....Its now revealed the now infamous Cornell frat house was the site of a drug bust just hours before the alleged gang bang.
Go have a beer and socialize normally.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16172539/Permissive-woke-city-CROWS-getting-high.html
Two things in the Agenda the public should look at but won't due to the voluminous government speak in the Master Plan and the proposed policy on use of social media.
It's a control freak's Mecca......Restricting means of disseminating information and consolidating the flow of information in the resident control freak, the City Manager.
Council won't read all this and will just pass it on. I perused it and besides being mostly bullshit , its chilling on issues like transparency and accountability, none of which is embraced by the current regime.
Kathy and Tish are going to do something about sexual assault at Cornell...Does the Governor know there are 8,000 reported rape cases on colleges campuses in a year..,Is this dynamic due in Albany going to do something about all of these cases....How many rapes are there in her SUNY system ?
These incidents and ones not reported are concerning but the facts and circumstances are differing and these two political hacks in NY interceding in one case that's gone viral is just silly.
There interest in the topic is certainly suspect.
The City of Albany is facing a 15% property tax hike and a half point hike in sales tax under a proposed spending plant. A day of reckoning its being billed as....
Schenectady residents are facing a bigger hike....
Now you know why the Governor wants to keep us focused on our $100 checks from her and of course her newfound concern over campus sex romps.
Can Mr. Blakeman pivot the campaign back to important stuff...He has one debate in a couple weeks, and then early voting gets started....
Today Colesante's has a soft opening with George himself there at 2PM for the first cocktail...The story in the Times certainly looks like Angelica and Dan have done a nice job reviving this piece of Watertown history.
It's also good to see investment in property and commerce going on....Now if we can just get Shooties going again...
Nightlife and socializing are good for people and the Times gave a nice front page homage to the bar dating to the end of Prohibition.
And why do I mention any of this since I am a competitor......I know how tough the business is and we all have a stake in a vibrant social atmosphere that draw more people out at all times of the day.
Nice fall weather is here for the City's Fall Festival at the Alex Duffy Fairgrounds today and tomorrow....Rides, food, vendors, crafts, entertainment....Take some time and check it out.
Not that their votes are determinative, but will anyone ask our local state lawmakers about changing the consent law ?
They should be familiar with the issue as they are all ready on day one.
Changing New York's laws on consent in sexual assault cases have been talked about for years...Speaker Carl Heastie has previously said the votes are not there in the Dem caucus, but the heat is on now.....
Most of these Assembly Members are from seats where there is no real political competition and running out to pass a law based the outrage of the moment isn't always a good thing.
New York passed a look back law to open up the opportunity to get Trump...But the result is lawyers dug up issues from decades ago, such as the recent shakedown to our City School District. That guy was a teacher when I was there and the intervening years produced nothing till the state opened the door.
I suspect the Cornell matter could have been prosecuted under existing law.....It's just you have to prove more than just intoxication. That didn't happen. Blame the DA if you want , but he was elected and surely was supported by the Governor when he ran.
Kathy is sending me a hundred dollars to help with energy costs and the President is giving me $90 to help with health care costs.
All this will make the Holiday season so much more joyful .
Must be they didn't save enough at Save A Lot...The store is closing meaning there are only two grocery stores in the City.
For folks on the east end of Watertown, this means a bit of travel...But we do have a weed store in the same plaza.
A 45 year old woman was on her porch and took her robe off and was seen by students at a nearby school. OMG….We should have,Tish look into this……
I’d say drinking played a,role.
https://www.wwnytv.com/2026/10/02/woman-accused-exposing-herself-students/
Now that Governor Hochul has parachuted Tish James into Ithaca, and the Governor has concluded a Cornell coed was betrayed by those charged with protecting her, the circus has come to town…
Ms James has already weighed in on the matter, so we know her goal is to produce indictments for the two year old sexual hijynx in a college frat house……The local DA has been trashed although we assume in Tompkins County he is a Democrat.
The lads involved are young but are still too male and too pale are the media drumbeat is incessant all of a sudden…..
The potentially alleged rapists are now dubbed the Cornell Seven.
Ms James and the Governor are in the midst of a campaign and likely will be reelected and this does take the headlines away from the state’s many woes…
The settlement will be large and reputations will be dusted up. The lawyers will cash out.
After November 3 , Tish can go back to her day job, chasing the President..
The proposed city budget for Schenectady carries a 43% property tax hike and unspecified hikes in refuse removal. That’s kinda like what we will see in 2030.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/schenectady-unveils-budget-proposal-43-tax-levy-22457510.php
Media pressure is forcing the sleepy NYS Legislature to tighten up legal language on consent...
Drinking is not an invitation to rape , they say....Others say candy is fancy but liquor is quicker.
The Cornell situation reminds one of the Casablanca......Bad, stupid actions but the fallout was when the dudes started chattering (no texting at the time) and people went to the woman and told her she had been raped and there had to be justice.
As I recall, originally pleas of sexual misconduct were vacated and suddenly the State is in their prosecuting....
Ratchet to today, when a high profile case arises at a prestigious university in a town known for woke.
Enter Tish James as special prosecutor.....Those seven are guilty now and already their reputations are sullied.
There is no unringing of this kind of bell other than to offer money, which is the solution but too late for that now, and everyone is being sued and the criminal probe will
Sure looks like Blake Gendebien is ducking debates….Some media may cover,for him but out east CBS6 says the Gendebien campaign was offered numerous debates and claim they are booked up….Even Governor Hochul is doing one debate, as a televised session is available to many more people….
One or two obscure debates done early are better than being forced into a higher stakes one later…..
The commercials are getting quite slick as the race nears the end.
They always want you to resign…A Geneva City Council member was arrested for allegedly selling some cocaine…..is selling a little blow worse than buying a golf course ? State Police put a lot of time into that dead end street, so now they bagged a Council Member.
Voters can decide on the,Councilman….
Tape from the plane hijack shows passengers calling for a doctor presumably to assist the pilot, but I hear it was a dentist who saved his life….Now a dentist is a doctor but is it the same as a medical doctor and did the dentist properly ID himself…
Now down to Tennessee where the doctor in charge of the latest botched execution is thought to be a doctor but maybe they should have called a PA…in any event the woman is in the hospital and hard to see how they try to kill her again especially if she is a vegetable….
The family waited 31 years for vengeance and got nothing….Oh well….7.5% of American executions don’t pan out ….despite trying all sorts of methodologies.
How about these memes. I posted one slamming me just to be fair…..But when does one offend the wrong person ?
Politico reports the President may visit upstate to campaign alongside Bruce Blakeman……Central NY is what is mentioned…..This doesn’t help,Blakeman who is losing anyway…..Mr Trump likely does not help in the vulnerable CDs either..
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/01/trump-weighing-upstate-new-york-trip-01103484
The Planning staff is recommending the Planning Commission reject Jake’s request for rezoning part of his golf course that would allow the restaurant to operate regardless whether the links were open….The planners say the proposal is is not in harmony with the City’s comprehensive plan…That plan was drawn by consultants with no real care towards the realities of neighborhoods…
Council still votes on zoning changes, and will surely reject this…..
Saw a story on Spectrum sayings those candidates accepting state campaign matching funds are required to participate in debates…. Wonder if anyone knows that up here?
If that’s the case I invite those receiving free shit to participate in debates on the HOTLINE
