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Who is calling the shots in City Hall? It is a legitimate question because, based on what has been reported it is and has been the City’s position that the Schine Student Center should be taxed. The administration agreed as did the Board of Assessment review. When SU challenged that assessment, the City Attorney tried to convince the Common Council that the City’s position was wrong and that it should be tax exempt. The Common Council disagreed and SU brought a lawsuit challenging the assessment. After the City prevailed in the Supreme Court, SU brought its argument to the Appellate Division seeking to have the decision reversed. At this point, the Corporation Counsel fired the attorney that had been successful at the Supreme Court so he could not argue the case at the Appellate Division and then chose not to send any attorney at all to the Appellate Division to rebut the arguments being made by SU. Unsurprisingly, SU prevailed.

We do no not know which side is right or which is wrong but it seems that in this instance, policy on the tax-exempt status is being made not by the Mayor, not by the Common Council, but rather by the Corporation Counsel’s office. That is not how it is supposed to work. Perhaps rather than issuing statements for PR purposes, the City Auditor could look into the decision-making process on how the City defended its argument (or at least pretended to), that the Shine should be on the tax rolls.

Syracuse University doesn’t have to pay taxes on student center after all, judges say A court ruled Syracuse University’s Schine Student Center is tax-exempt, overturning the city’s attempt to tax it after renovations.

When the editorial board of Syracuse.com says the actions of the County Legislature democrats "smack of underhandedness" and "inject party politics into the conversation", you know your their proposal are wrong for our community. Be better democrats. Again, we feel badly for those voters that voted democrat for County Legislature after believing their efforts to gain the majority were about anything other than exercising partisan political power. If you want honest governance that works for the people and not themselves, Vote Republican for County Legislature.

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This is leadership New Yorkers really need.

"The winner will face Republican Brandon Camperlino".

Ryan, Honeywell face rematch in primary for Onondaga County Legislature: Meet the candidates Ryan defeated Honeywell last year in the 8th district

Who wants to work for the Board of Elections?

This is an outrageous statement from a political hack. She sure has learned the game in her short time in politics. If these issues were so important as to "warrant our attention and a conversation" perhaps she should have released them before 5:14 pm on the Friday afternoon of a holiday weekend. At least when the Republicans were in charge of the County Legislature, they were focused on governing, not playing political games. This is shameful and hopefully the voters are paying attention.

Statement from Chairwoman Nicole Watts on proposed local laws coming to Ways & Means Committee Meeting: ..."these local laws warrant our attention and a conversion. They are focused on the safety of residents and re-focusing political and governing power back to residents."

We guess this settles the debate as whether the democrats are interested in good governance as opposed to yet another partisan political power grab they pull this stunt. Amazing how terms limits are being proposed for the County Executive, an office which is and will continue to be held by a Republican but "forget" to seek term limits for County Comptroller. Is it perhaps because that office is held by a democrat? We would say inquiring minds want to know but anyone with a brain already knows the answer.

This also proves that the democrats claims about transparency are also empty rhetoric. Their legislation was released after 5:00 on the Friday night of a holiday weekend to be voted on the very next business day.

Be better democrats. You are a bunch of hypocrites and the voters should know that you are lying to them.

Onondaga County Democrats propose change that would strip McMahon of a key political tool The Democrats also want to limit the county executive office holder to three consecutive terms.