Frontier Communications moves 27 jobs from NY to Texas

The Business Review - Friday 24th May, 2013

Frontier Communications is pulling 27 union jobs out of its Gloversville, NY operations center and moving them to Allen, Texas. The telecommunications company, which employs 2,300 people in New York state, is searching for ways to operate more efficiently, according to ...

Senate immigration deal loosens foreign hiring restrictions

The Business Review - Friday 24th May, 2013

Charles Schumer played a leading role in brokering a compromise to ease harsh restrictions on hiring foreign workers that was part of the immigration reforms taking shape in Washington. The compromise will make it easier for companies, especially tech companies, to hire skilled foreign ...

How could rising interest rates affect student loans

The Business Review - Friday 24th May, 2013

The debt crisis among college students and recent grads could get worse as they encounter a new threat: It's possible that interest rates on student loans will climb under a new bill passed by the House on Thursday, The Wall Street Journal's Market Watch reports. The bill ties student loan interest rates to the financial markets, and experts say the low-interest rate environment ...

Todays obituaries John B. Carpenter Jr. was an F-M school bus driver involved in Boy Scout leadership

The Post-Standard - Friday 24th May, 2013

John B. Carpenter Jr., 73, of South Onondaga, died Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at Upstate University Hospital at Community General. Born in Syracuse, he retired in 2002 from J. B. Brady as a technician and in 2008 from Fayetteville-Manlius School District as a school bus driver. He served the Boy Scouts of America Hiawatha Council on various committees and was a Master for 25 years of South ...

Hotel occupancy rates rebound in Albany region

Business Journal - Friday 24th May, 2013

Revenue per available room in the Capital Region, rose 5 percent, to $60.49. Hotels in the Albany, NY area rebounded in April after eight consecutive months in which the average occupancy rate fell. The average occupancy rate at 137 hotels in the area increased 3.4 percent, to 59.6 percent, according to STR, a hospitality consulting firm in Tennessee. The average daily rate increased 1.6 ...

A Bethpage drinking supply well shut down

Associated Press - Friday 24th May, 2013

Bethpage Water District officials say the amount of radium does not exceed federal or state drinking water standards. They will run tests to try to determine where the radioactive element is coming ...

Hedge hog No mamas

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

Hedge funds may be the last bastion of white male privilege - and that’s just the way these Neanderthals like it."I don’t think you’ll ever see as many great women investors or traders as men, period," said billionaire Tudor Investment Corp. founder Paul Tudor Jones, adding that children are the kiss of death for an investment career. "As soon as that ...

‘F-bombed’ taxi big slaps harder at Mike

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

The taxi magnate who said he was cursed out by Mayor Bloomberg has added the alleged F-bomb-laced tirade to a lawsuit accusing the mayor of harassing him for opposing the "Taxi of Tomorrow" plan.The amended suit, filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, charges that Bloomberg and Taxi and Limousine Commission chief David Yassky orchestrated a blizzard of bogus tickets on cabs ...

Heat on Kelly for cam jam

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly was grilled yesterday over the delay in installing $300,000 worth of security cameras in the Rockaways - and e-mails obtained by The Post show that the paperwork is on his desk. Correspondence between the NYPD’s grant department and a Queens assemblyman indicate the ball is in Kelly’s court. A source said the only thing holding back the cameras is ...

I win I quit

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

A Long Island dockworker raked in a $26.5 million Lotto jackpot - and promptly quit his job. Fidencio Argueta, 60, from Brentwood, said the decision to play Quick-Pick numbers in the state’s six-digit lottery on April 10 just came to him on a whim."I felt like I should play," he explained at a press conference yesterday. After taxes, Argueta yesterday got a lump sum check for ...

Wire pol’s bid to run bugs Dems

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

ALBANY - Disgraced ex-Assemblyman Nelson Castro was mocked by fellow Democrats yesterday for mulling a run at the very seat he was forced to vacate in a perjury plea deal."What would he run for, New York’s best informant?" New York state Democratic Party co-chair Keith Wright joked of Castro, who wore a wire for the feds and turned evidence against fellow lawmakers. Castro ...

E. End scribe busted

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

A national best-selling author and Hamptons socialite was busted for pot possession while cruising around the East End, cops said.Steven Gaines, 66, wrote "Philistines at the Hedgerow," a 1998 social and cultural history of the Hamptons exposing the excesses of the rich and powerful, like billionaire Ron Perelman.The Brooklyn native, 66, was cruising around Wainscott at about 1:40 p.m. ...

Jodi will get new death jury

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

PHOENIX - Jurors who spent five months determining Jodi Arias’ fate couldn’t decide whether she should get life in prison or die for murdering her boyfriend, sending prosecutors back to the drawing board to rehash the shocking case of sex, lies and violence to another 12 people.Judge Sherry Stephens gave a heavy sigh as she announced a mistrial in the penalty phase of the case ...

Gov takes stiff poke at Weiner

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

ALBANY - Gov. Cuomo took a bite out of Anthony Weiner - declaring "shame on us" if city voters elect him mayor.Cuomo flamed Weiner during an interview Wednesday with The Syracuse Post-Standard editorial board, it was revealed yesterday. "So if Anthony Weiner wants to run for mayor, he can run for mayor?" Cuomo was asked.The governor responded: "He runs? He runs." ...

Biker barrels into bus

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

A motorcyclist was fighting for his life yesterday after colliding with a city bus in morning rush-hour traffic, officials said yesterday.Sources said the unidentified biker sped past a red light at Third Avenue and East 34th Street at 9 a.m. as a traffic agent waved a westbound bus through the intersection. The motorcycle clipped the bus near its back wheel, cops said. The biker was rushed to ...

Times Sq. ‘block’ buster

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

The world’s largest LEGO model - a 5.3 million-brick "Star Wars" X-wing fighter - was unveiled in Times Square yesterday."I built pretty big things with LEGO, but this is the biggest ever," LEGO "Master Builder" Erik Varszegi said at the toy company’s unveiling of the 23-ton spaceship, which took 32 workers 17,000 hours to make.Begun in the Czech ...

Bynes is busted in bong toss

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

Amanda Bynes’ saga of self- destruction has finally made it to Broadway.The train-wreck former TV star was hit with a felony rap last night after a wild encounter with police in which she hurled a bong from a window of her 34th-floor apartment on West 47th Street near Times Square.Cops were called when the building superintendent complained she was puffing on the pipe in the lobby, ...

Safety plea at Hofstra

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

A former Hofstra University homecoming king and queen have launched an online petition asking school officials to beef up off-campus security, including in the nearby Long Island neighborhood where a student was killed during a home invasion.Andrea Rebello, a junior, was accidentally shot dead by an officer responding to the home invasion early last Friday.Rebello, 21, was buried Wednesday after ...

A chance to ‘train’ pets

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

If it becomes law, the bill would scrap Amtrak’s current pet policy, which allows only service animals on trains. It would designate one car per train for domestic pets, with a minimum of at least two cars per train. Pet owners would be able to ride with dogs and cats in kennels weighing no more than 50 pounds - big enough for medium-sized pooches, such as border collies and cocker ...

F’book cheat scandal at HS

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

Long Island honors students have been caught using Facebook to cheat on their homework - by posting and sharing answers online, school officials said yesterday.At least 11 ninth-graders in two honors-biology classes at West Islip HS were involved ."There is an investigation in the high school,’’ said West Islip Schools Superintendent Richard ...

Judge snuffs bootleg Indian’s cheap cigs

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

A member of an upstate Indian tribe has been told to butt out of the discount- cigarette business after admitting he sold more than 10,000 bootleg smokes to city residents.A judge ordered Robert Gordon of the Seneca Nation of Indians to stop selling untaxed cigarettes in response to city allegations that he violated various tobacco regulations through his "All of Our Butts" company on ...

Charge in Village gay slay

New York Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

The thug held in the West Village gay-slay shooting of Mark Carson has been indicted in the senseless bias murder, prosecutors announced yesterday.Ex-con Elliot Morales, 33, remains held in lieu of bail pending the formal unsealing of his indictment at a Manhattan Supreme Court arraignment on June 18."Look at these faggots - what are you, gay wrestlers?" Morales had allegedly hissed at ...