Notes and Asides “Numbers matter less than jobs. We’ve just got to create jobs in Western New York.”  - Richie Kessel Late last month, Richie Kessel announced a typically cocked up subsidy deal with Yahoo! Here’s the background on the richest subsidy deal ever offered by NYPA: Since David Paterson has been absent from pursuing [...]

Richie Kessel: BIG Republican Political Donor “I lost contact with Richie Kessel, who somehow was able to swim the political rapids from the Democratic side to the Republican side.”                                                                                                            – Mario Cuomo While a professed life-long Democrat, Kessel’s State political contributions, all a matter of public record on the State Board of Elections web [...]