March 18, 2011

When it comes to the price of a starting county attorney, we’re going to have to side with Erie County Comptroller Mark C. Poloncarz.

No offense meant to Jeremy A. Colby, the new chief legal counsel for, as he put it, a$1 billion entity. It’s just [...]

March 9, 2011
By Matthew Spina

Erie County Comptroller Mark C. Poloncarz, who signs the county’s checks, says he will pay the new county attorney only the Legislature-authorized $99,000 a year, not the $150,000 that the county executive promised.

“Our office disagrees with the county executive’s assertion that he [...]

February 28, 2011
By Bob McCarthy

There may be nobody in New York State more focused on faraway Wisconsin these days than County Executive Chris Collins.

That’s because if ever two political leaders were more simpatico in dealing with municipal unions, it would be Collins and Wisconsin Gov. Scott [...]