Before moving to B'ville, O'Hara, 46, had his share of fun times at the fair as part of a prominent Syracuse family that includes older brother Joe, a former State Fair director himself and onetime member of the Syracuse Common Council. Former Onondaga County legislator Kathleen O'Hara Campolieta is O'Hara's sister. The new director and his wife Monique are parents of three children: Bonnie, who recently graduated from Ithaca College; Danny, a college student; and Morgan, who's in high school. A: I think what's important here is we've defined what that mission is going to be. We're going to look at the "Three E's," we call them. 'We want to make sure that this is a wonderful educational opportunity for residents of New York state and beyond. We want to make sure that it's a wonderful en...
My parents are pure 'jibaros,'" says [Bea Gonzalez], the oldest of [Julia Colon] and [Juan Gonzalez]'s six children, using the Puerto Rican slang term for peasant farmer, or campesino. "They need dirt, they need to get their hands in the soil, and move things around, and make things grow. They're good at that." There are times when Bea Gonzalez, now 52 and in the middle of her second and last term as president of the Syracuse Common Council, envies their life. A: I think it's great. Now we have to get into mixed-income housing. We do really well with the high-end housing, but we also have to mix it up. If people did that, in an 80/20 ratio {20 percent subsidized housing}, we could get federal money to keep it going. If you disperse the projects, then you don't have concentrated poverty...
There were always little rifts within their party where they didn't vote together, and I'm not sure they were ever a united front or needed to be, because of the balance," said [Martin Masterpole], a former member of the Syracuse Common Council who won the 17th District seat vacated by Ed Ryan when he ran for county executive. Masterpole defeated Republican Larry Corso with an overwhelming 73 percent of the vote. "Anytiiing over 51 would have made me happy," he noted, "and I'm surprised and grateful I got that much. Michael Heagerty, another Democrat occupying a new seat after the election, echoed Masterpole's sentiments about letting go of the rope in the party-line tug-of-war. "It's very sensible that [Joanie Mahoney] has chosen {former Democratic Syracuse Mayor) Tom Young and {outg...
...At the last moment, however, the Syracuse Common Council voted against the property transfer. In an...
Last month public outrage spilled into the streets, or at least onto the shoulders of the interstate, when the Syracuse Common Council agreed to boost the salary of the mayor to $115,000. Since 1994, the mayor of Syracuse had been forced to make ends meet with an annual paycheck of $84,388. Councilors felt that they had to increase the wage to keep pace with what other mayors in the region receive. Although it is a tiny piece of the budget, nothing gets a rise out of the public like increasing the mayor's pay. The local blogosphere overflowed with complaints. Some believed that a raise was in order, but the magnitude of it was not. Others were willing to consider an adjustment, but didn't think the current occupant of City Hall deserved a raise based on his performance. Some of the more...
What did surprise many was the presence of a leader of a suburban, evangelical megachurch at the center of the storm. The Rev. Joe Coudriet of Abundant Life Christian Center was the most vocal and visible leader of the effort, writing letters to newspapers, assembling a coalition of supporters and attending meetings with decision makers. The Rev. John Carter, the lead pastor at Abundant Life, spoke from the altar beseeching his congregation to attend a street rally on Nov. 1 1 to save the school. "If you have plans for that night," Carter said bluntly, "change them." Coudriet (pronounced "Coo-Dray"), who serves as outreach minister of the church, has been credited by many with keeping the needs of Blodgett before the mayor, the Common Council and the school board. Chasz Parker is execut...
I can't speak for previous Councils and I guess every Council has a different tolerance for an acceptable reason for a waiver," says Majority Leader Ryan. "If you have a sick dad, and that's been a lot of cases, that it was someone other than the employee who they needed to care for and living in the city created an inconvenience: 'Don't you think, Councilor Ryan, that's a good reason to grant me a waiver?' What do I say to somebody who has exactly the same circumstances who played by the rules? Your story is no more compelling than somebody else's. So that's why at least from my perspective it was supported unanimously by the committee that no waivers should be granted. Syracuse Teachers Association president Kate McKenna can't quite figure out the Common Council. "I'm rather surpris...
So why did Councilor Stephanie Miner and her self-dubbed "Syracuse Six" on the Common Council vote "no" {to the proposed megamall Destiny USA} on June 22? "We have tried to get the answer out, and I think deliberately, it's not getting out. I'm surprised by her candor in "Miner's Problem," the Aug. 2 Syracuse New Times interview. It sounds like she is trying to tell us two things. First, that apparently she is such an ineffective public servant that she can't work with or compete with local Syracuse media to get her constituents to understand where she's coming from. Second, that because she is so ineffective at getting her message out, the appropriate, professional, and objective way to handle it is to blame others for her ineffectiveness. Perhaps, like when a 12-year-old blames the t...
Howie Hawkins is aiming for a more realistic public office this election season, the Syracuse Common Council's 4th District seat, currently held by Democrat Tom Seals.
This week, discussing her upcoming campaign, [Kathleen Callahan] dismissed the idea that her appointment and designation represent political inbreeding. "There were seven candidates being seriously considered," she explained. "My grandfather was mayor of Fredonia for 12 years, so I grew up with a sense of public service. It was a small town so he recognized nearly everyone when we walked down the street. What stayed with me was how he treated everyone with respect, and he listened. She also had a political resume to tout. As city party chair for a year in 1999, she coordinated the drive to get out the vote on Election Day. For five years she worked in the office of the city of Syracuse's Corporation Counsel, confronting some of the issues that still face the Common Council today, e...
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