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The Ohio Constitution says that "All courts shall be open, and every person, for an injury done him in his land, goods, person or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and shall have justice administered without denial or delay". That means that EVERY person has access to our courts.

"I had to remind people that what this government did to me, they can do to you", Michael Schiavo says as he continues to seek revenge against those politicians who he perceives did him wrong in trying to save the live of his disabled wife.

It's unclear why the San Jose Mercury News in California is endorsing a Florida gubernatorial candidate, especially one who has the second worst voting record in Congress since running for Governor.

NEW YORK---The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed in its entirety the decision of U.S. District Court Judge John Gleeson granting a motion for preliminary injunctive relief in Lopez Torres v. New York State Board of Elections.

LONG BRANCH, NJ--May courts summarily permit local governments to hand over your home to someone else for private development without even allowing you to first present evidence in your home's defense?

TALLAHASSEE, FLA---The Florida Bar has suspended 14 attorneys from practicing law, disbarred one and reprimanded another.

Caught in the crossfire of culture-war battles over religion and politics, most Americans may be ready to say "a plague on both your houses."

PINELLAS COUNTY-- Pinellas County Sheriff's detectives have arrested a Pinellas County employee for a grand theft allegedly committed at the Pinellas County Jail. The theft occurred between 10 a.m. and noon on Friday at the Facility Management Building within the Pinellas County Jail Complex, police said.

PHOENIX, AZ---A federal grand jury has returned a 34-count indictment against Phoenix attorney James Joseph Everett, 51, of Paradise Valley for false declarations in bankruptcy proceedings, bankruptcy fraud, and money laundering.

MANHATTAN---A teacher and director at the private East Side Montessori elementary school, indicted for allegedly raping two former male students, has been offered a deal of six years in prison in exchange for her guilty plea to multiple counts of rape, sodomy and tampering with a witness.

Saving a life nowadays is not easy. The proof is all around us. All one has to do is listen to what is coming out of the bioethicists' mouths in this country. They may not all feel the same when it comes to moral obligations and principles on death and dying, but how long will we be safe from their skewed notions of what constitutes life and their justifications for purposely causing death?

BALLSTON SPA---The Village of Ballston Spa had such poor financial management practices that the village board could not accurately develop budgets, and the board's failure to properly manage taxpayer money has severely impaired the village's finances, according to an audit released Wednesday by New York State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi.

ALBANY---Under an agreement reached to resolve an investigation of illegal marketing practices by wine and liquor wholesalers in New York, the state's eight largest wholesalers will adopt a series of reforms and pay $1.6 million in fines and costs.

A total of $12.88 million in grants to help create jobs, provide affordable housing and enhance public services in 18 communities in the Capital Region, nine in the Southern Tier and five in the Hudson Valley, were announced Wednesday by Governor George E. Pataki.

NEW YORK---The New York State Banking Department hs published a form for filing claims to the State Transmitter of Money Insurance Fund related to CashPoint Network Services, Inc., a New York State-licensed money transmitter.

JOHNSTOWN---The woman charged with her son with first trying to poison their four German shepherds with rat poison before shooting them and burning them in their backyard has pleaded guilty in Fulton County Court to all 13 counts against her.

ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA---Don't use snakes to threaten people.

The evil empire of Warren County Sheriff Larry Cleveland is nearing an end.

The walls are tumbling down.

The beginning of the long awaited and warranted end of the dictatorial reign of Larry Cleveland came with the sinking of the Ethan Allen and the now infamous "blow in my face" test implemented by Cleveland in his determination that his buddy, boat captain and former state trooper Richard Paris hadn't been drinking and wasn't under the influence of drugs.

QUEENSBURY---A corrections officer of the Warren County Sheriff's Department has resigned after he and another officer chased a woman on Interstate 87 at speeds reaching near 100 mph, endangering other motorists, after the jail guards decided the woman had been driving recklessly.

TROY---Rensselaer County district attorney Patricia DeAngelis says that she is "considering the possibility of giving a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity" in the Christine Wilhelm case, the Hoosick Falls mother whose conviction of drowning her four-year-old son in a bathtub and trying to kill her other son has been reversed.

WARREN COUNTY--Almost a year to the day of the first arrest eight years ago, the publisher of The North Country Gazette has filed a civil rights action against Warren County Sheriff Larry J. Cleveland and others in U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York in Albany.

He was bald, had tattoos, a goatee and a mustache.

And he was wearing a white dress which police said he lifted and exposed himself to a woman and her 14-year-old daughter.

YONKERS---A Yonkers man has pleaded guilty to a hate crime involving the assault of a U.S. Postal Service worker.

ALBANY---The Prudential Equity Group has reached an agreement with the state Attorney General's office to resolve an investigation of market timing.

RENSSELAER COUNTY---The murder conviction of Christine Wilhelm, convicted of drowning her four-year-old son in a bathtub and trying to drown her other son, has been reversed by the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court because of incriminating statements made to Rensselaer County social services workers who visited her in her cell without legal counsel present, a violation of Wilhelm's constitutional rights.

Some call it doublespeak.

Others call it speaking with a forked tongue.

Charlie Crist is doing both.

Florida Attorney General Crist and the state's chief financial officer, Tom Gallagher, engaged in a debate this past week and have another scheduled for Monday, Aug. 28.

BRONX---Efrain Gonzalez Jr., a Hispanic Democratic New York State senator who has represented portions of The Bronx since 1989, has been indicted for a scheme to defraud a not-for-profit corporation, the West Bronx Neighborhood Association Inc.

SUFFOLK COUNTY---The New York Civil Liberties Union has asked the Village of Bellport to drop an arbitrary and unconstitutional requirement that a group wishing to march on the street must purchase $2 million in insurance and indemnify the village from liability as a condition of receiving a permit.

PINELLAS COUNTY---A Pinellas County nurse has been arrested on charges of Medicaid fraud and identity theft. Carla Ann Mejia formerly worked at a Medicaid-enrolled provider of pediatric home health care services. By falsifying employee schedules, Mejia defrauded the Medicaid program out of more than $150,000, according to the state Attorney General's office.

The government of Pinellas County, Florida, has an inordinate interest in The North Country Gazette.

Statistical information recorded by the daily online news publication at www.northcountrygazette.org indicates that the municipal offices of Pinellas County, including the court, state attorney and sheriff's office, where Michael Schiavo is employed, are among the top 10 visitors to the web site in August.

JACKSONVILLE--With less than two weeks until the Sept. 5 primary, the mudslinging is intensifying in the Florida Senate race in District 8 between incumbent Jim King and anti-abortionist Randall Terry.

SCHUYLERVILLE-The president of the Schuylerville Teachers Association has been charged by Albany City Police with seventh degree possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor, after being found in possession of a glass crack pipe and small amount of crack cocaine.

QUEENSBURY---A five hour disciplinary hearing was held Thursday to discuss the future of Warren County Sheriff's officer Jeffrey Clarke who has been on suspension following a vehicle pursuit on Aug. 12 when Clarke discharged his service weapon.

ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA--- Food and hydration: Is it "ordinary care"?

Is all hospice care equal?

Do you need a living will or medical power of attorney?

ALBANY---Following a trial held Friday in Albany City Court, Sen. Ada Smith, a Queens Democrat, has been found guilty of assaulting a former staff member earlier this year by throwing a cup of hot coffee on her and pulling a wig from her head.

ALBANY---A long-time cantor at Temple Israel, entrusted with teaching children, has admitted that he molested an 11-year-old girl while preparing her for her bat mitzvah.

NEW YORK---Continuing efforts to reform what the Brennan Center for Justice calls the "most dysfunctional" legislature in the country, New York State Senator Liz Krueger has introduced two new reform bills for the state Senate to pass in the next legislative session.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Neither can Michael Schiavo.

The first federal court decision to address the legality of warrantless eavesdropping on the telephone and Internet conversations of U.S. citizens caused quite a stir when it was handed down Aug. 17.

YONKERS---The Maitri Center Inc., a Yonkers AIDS day treatment program, has agreed to repay the New York State Medicaid Program more than $1.4 million it improperly received from Medicaid, according to the state Attorney General's office.

WASHINGTON---The Humane Society of the United States filed suit Thursday to block the State of New York from spending more than $400,000 to subsidize the expansion of Hudson Valley Foie Gras, the nation's largest and wealthiest foie gras producer.

New Yorkers can now call a new toll-free hotline, 1-888-OSC-4555, to report allegations of fraud, corruption or abuse of taxpayer money, New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi has announced. New Yorkers can also continue to report allegations of malfeasance online at www.osc.state.ny.us.

MONROE COUNTY---A new state-of-the-art crime laboratory is planned for Monroe County, courtesy of a $300,000 state grant. The new facility will effectively support the criminal justice process, by alleviating a 2-5 year backlog in case of evidence analysis.

SYRACUSE---The 160th Annual Great New York State Fair in Syracuse, Onondaga County officially opened Thursday and Gov. George Pataki encouraged people to visit the fair to enjoy thousands of exhibits, rides, food vendors, and world-class entertainers.

BROOKLYN---Three officers from the NYPD's Brooklyn South Vice Squad, including one lieutenant and one sergeant, have been indicted for breaking into a crime scene and stealing computer equipment.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY---A disbarred attorney has been charged with defrauding a couple of over $48,712 while claiming to be still authorized to practice law.

ALBANY---Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has hailed a court decision that strengthens the ability of the state to pursue gasoline price gouging cases.

INDEPENDENCE, MO---A couple who feigned being the parents of sextuplets have pleaded guilty to felony stealing by deceit.

SUFFOLK COUNTY---A former bookkeeper for a Suffolk County doctor's office has admitted that she stole over $2.3 million from her employer to buy lottery tickets, spending as much as $6,000 a day on Lotto and scratch-off games.

ERIE COUNTY, OHIO----Visiting judge Richard Knepper has gone over the top.

Not only has he violated judicial ethics by continuing to act in a case after he has recused himself but he has by his rantings in open court established on the record that there is absolutely no semblance of impartiality or fairness in northern Ohio in any matter concerning disbarred attorney Elsebeth Baumgartner.

Mafia mob boss John Gotti was known as the Teflon Don.

Is George W. Greer of Florida's Sixth Judicial Circuit the Teflon judge?

He keeps evading and manipulating the law, nothing seems to stick to him, regardless of the evidence amassed.

MINEOLA----Thomas Bender, 71, an ex-priest from Pennsylvania who pleaded guilty in March to six counts of felony attempted disseminating indecent material to minors in the first degree, has moved to vacate his guilty plea in light of a recent appellate court decision that narrowly defined the dissemination law as valid only if "sexual images" are used to "depict" sexual conduct.

Seventeen schools have been identified as "persistently dangerous," as required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

An additional 10 schools have been placed on a "watch list."

ALBANY---Three measures that will continue to transition New York's health care system by expanding home health care options for New Yorkers have been signed into law by Gov. George E. Pataki.

LINCOLN, NEB---The Nebraska Attorney General has asked the state's Court of Appeals to order resentencing of a sex offender who was received a term of 10 years of intensive probation because the trial judge felt he was too short and wouldn't survive prison.

JEANETTE, PA---Is meow a fighting word and grounds for harassment?

A Pennsylvania judge will issue a decision in 90 days.

TAMPA, FLA---A judge has given permission for Debra Lafave to be interviewed by NBC's Matt Lauer for Dateline for the purpose of explaining her bipolar disorder.

PORT CLINTON, OHIO---The mother of Baby Easter has admitted that she dumped her stillborn infant's body into an Ottawa County creek in 2004.

FONDA---If you were strip searched at the Montgomery County Jail by officers of the Montgomery Sheriff's Department since 2001, you could be in line to receive between $2,000 and $2,500 as the result of a settlement reached in a class action lawsuit.

BOCA RATON, FLA-The daughter of an 89-year-old woman and her husband have been charged with first degree murder and aggravated abuse of an elderly or disabled adult in the starvation and dehydration death of the elderly woman.

NEWBURGH---The state Attorney General's office has secured $40,000 from a former local official in Orange County to reimburse an unauthorized municipal money transfer to a private corporation.

NASSAU COUNTY---Eight individuals and six companies have been charged with trafficking in tens of millions of dollars worth of black-market prescription medications. A related civil suit filed by the Attorney General's office seeks the recovery of more than $70 million from these defendants and from an additional 30 individuals and entities which received or laundered the proceeds of this criminal activity.

MIAMI---A Florida man has pleaded guilty to making a false distress call to the Coast Guard in June.

MOUNT VERNON---The former executive director of the Mount Vernon Overall Development Corporation has pleaded guilty to third degree grand larceny, a class D felony.

SAN DIEGO, CA---Two California men have been indicted for sending spam.

ALBANY---A new recovery grant program is in place for businesses in 20 counties that were affected by June 2006 flooding. A total of $5 million has been set aside for the Supplemental Flood Recovery Grant Program (SFRGP), part of the $60 million in comprehensive aid packages announced by the Governor in recent weeks.

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LAKE COUNTY, FLA---A Sorrento man is the Lake County Jail, accused of biting a 6-year-old boy's genitals as a form of punishment.

ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP, NJ---Curiosity didn't kill the little four month old kitten but it sure put it in a precarious position.

ERIE COUNTY, OHIO---Elsebeth Baumgartner, the outspoken activist who has blown the whistle long and loud on Erie County prosecutor Kevin Baxter and other public officials in northern Ohio is back in the Erie County Jail.

WATERTOWN---Is there discrimination practiced in the Watertown church?

First he dismissed 81-year-old Mary Lambert from the Diaconate Board of the First Baptist Church along with two members, claiming there were attendance issues.

ALBANY---New York State has awarded 22 grants totaling more than $2.45 million to improve the efficiency of municipal government services and encourage cooperation by local governments to reduce costs for providing services to residents and businesses.

FREDONIA---An escaped inmate, accused of shooting a state trooper, remains at large and three people have been charged with harboring the fugitive.

NASSAU COUNTY---A member of the Nassau County Legislature has had his law license suspended for 90 days by the Appellate Division, First Department as the result of his guilty plea to an election law violation.

SANDUSKY, OHIO---It's common knowledge in northern Ohio that Erie County prosecutor Kevin Baxter is, in common laymen's terms, out to get Elsebeth Baumgartner for her charges of corruption and wrongdoing against himself and other judicial and legal officers in northern Ohio.

There's a proverb that there are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.

Self-deceit.

That would seem to be applicable to Michael Schiavo fans as well as Schiavo himself. What kind of person openly and eagerly supports and applauds a man who killed his wife in the most public execution ever conducted in America, an icon of judicially sanctioned death, a man whose legacy is being the cause for the first person ever put to death by court order in our United States because she was being disabled and unable to speak for herself?

Death will be the main course.

Euthanasia attorney George Felos, the Dunedin, Fla. Attorney for Michael Schiavo in his decade-long quest to end the life of his disabled wife, will be the keynote speaker in Toronto, Canada, on Sept. 7 before the World Federation of Right to Die Societies.

ARIZONA---Phoenix Newspapers Inc. is headed to the state's highest court in its effort to obtain copies of private e-mail messages written by government employees and sent from publicly owned computers.

"We've got to corner the market", Mary Labyak, executive director of The Hospice of Florida Suncoast told hospice employees at one of her monthly meetings.

She was talking about the death market.

Beverly Enterprises, Inc. has agreed to pay $20 million to settle allegations that its former wholly owned subsidiary, MK Medical, violated the civil False Claims Act.

ALBANY---With the appointment of Eugene Pigott Jr.of western New York to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Court of Appeals, Gov. George E. Pataki has made the court an all-white panel.

In regard to your article published Saturday (8/19/06), New Bills Encourage Organ, Tissue Donation, the bills signed by Governor Pataki to encourage organ donation will save lives. Unfortunately, too many people remain unwilling to donate their organs when they die. Only about 40% of Americans are registered organ donors.

QUEENS---An 18-year-old Suffolk County resident has been charged with criminal impersonation, among other charges, for fraudulently passing himself off as an employee of NBC Universal and obtaining New York Mets press credentials on two occasions this month.

ERIE COUNTY, OHIO----Erie County prosecutor Kevin Baxter and special prosecutor Daniel Kasaris lost their bid Friday to incarcerate judicial whistleblower Elsebeth Baumgartner.

The following article appeared this week on a blog called Sigmund, Carl and Alfred and is republished here for readers of The North Country Gazette. http://sigmundcarlandalfred.wordpress.com/

Here's your chance to sit in the chair instead of lying on the couch. The matter was brought to our attention because the patient is in proximity to children. As we share some of the case notes and particulars, keep that in mind.

Nine years ago when this story was unfolding I suspected the parents were protecting their son. Then the DNA evidence apparently cleared the family, yet most of the people aware of, and following this story did not come to appreciate this aspect because the media coverage did not effectively high light this fact.

Peeling the Onion: Reversing The Ravages Of Stroke By Robin Robinson

A father/daughter journey through the description of a revolutionary new treatment for stroke. The book is a combination of a poignant narrative about the author's father's recovery while undergoing therapy and observations from neurologist William M. Hammesfahr, M.D.

CREEK COUNTY, OK-Former Oklahoma district court judge Donald Thompson will be spending the next four years in prison for exposing himself and using a device known as a penis pump to masturbate while presiding over trials during 2002 and 2003.

ALBANY---A series of bills that will encourage organ and tissue donation in New York State, ensuring that countless additional New Yorkers receive the "Gift of Life", have been signed into law by Gov. George E. Pataki.

ALBANY--A series of settlements involving fake "scratch-off" prize promotions and other false advertising for automobile sales has been reached by the Attorney General's office involving four Western New York auto dealerships and a Louisiana-based firm that specializes in auto ad promotions settled investigations by paying in total $67,000 in civil penalties.

BUFFALO---Buffalo Office Interiors, Inc. has agreed to pay $225,000 to Erie County to resolve a lawsuit seeking repayment for overcharges to the county stemming from its purchase of office furniture and supplies.

A federal appeals court in Chicago has agreed with New York and other states that the Clean Air Act requires dirty coal-fired power plants to install pollution controls when plant modifications result in increased pollution emissions. This decision gives a major boost to New York's efforts to reduce air pollution from power plants in the Midwest.

Apparently Connecticut voters aren't impressed that Michael Schiavo has endorsed Sen. Joseph Lieberman's opponent.

ERIE COUNTY, OHIO----As the result of Elsebeth Baumgartner attending a creditors' hearing on July 26 in federal court in the bankruptcy action of her former business partner and his wife, special prosecutor Daniel Kasaris has moved to revoke her bond and issue a warrant for her arrest to cause her immediate incarceration.

Case closed.

The state of Florida has reversed its decision to revoke the nursing license of a former caretaker of Terri Schindler Schiavo.

KINGSBURY---A lawyer with the Glens Falls law firm of Ronald Newell has been charged with possession of marijuana, a violation, after being stopped Monday at a routine traffic safety checkpoint being conducted on Dix Ave. by the Washington County Sheriff's Department.

ALBANY---An emergency room doctor who worked at Albany Memorial Hospital and St. Peter's Hospital has had his license revoked for gross negligence and incompetence.

DETROIT --A federal court ruled Thursday that the Bush administration's program to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of Americans without warrants is unconstitutional and must be stopped. This is the first ruling by a federal court to strike down the controversial National Security Agency surveillance program.

When I argued in my last column that demonizing Islam threatened religious freedom, I assumed the vast majority of Americans would agree.

I may have assumed wrong.

NORTH CREEK----Unable to prove that the February death of a seven week old infant was a homicide, the Warren County district attorney's office has dropped its efforts to prosecute the baby's mother, Amy L. Campbell, 33, on manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide charges.

LAKE GEORGE---Yet another investigation has been initiated into the deaths of 20 senior citizens last fall when the tour boat Ethan Allen capsized and sank in Lake George.

AKRON, OHIO---The Girl Scouts have taken a dozen people to court for allegedly stealing their cookie dough.

BUFFALO---In what a veteran animal control officer called one of the worse cases of animal cruelty seen in 26 years on the job, an unidentified man threw five kittens into a pan of hot cooking oil and frying pork chops.

ERIE COUNTY, OHIO----A bizarre, convoluted case in northern Ohio against judicial whistleblower Elsebeth Baumgartner, threatened with over 109 years in prison for first criticizing and allegedly intimidating a judge and then stealing her own corporate vehicle, has became even more bizarre with key witnesses for the prosecution facing possible federal charges for alleged bankruptcy fraud and the filing of false written statements with the federal court.

LAKELAND, FLA---Florida's Board of Nursing will revisit their decision made earlier this year to revoke the nursing license of Carla Sauer-Iyer, a registered nurse and former caretaker of the late Terri Schindler Schiavo during 1995 and 1996.

MIMS, FLA---A 20-month investigation into the Christmas Day 1951 murders of Florida civil rights pioneer Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette has determined that the Moores were the victims of a conspiracy by exceedingly violent members of a Central Florida Klavern of the Ku Klux Klan.

YONKERS---A retired investigator with the New York State Liquor Authority who pleaded guilty in May to second degree forgery, a class D felony, has sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to have no further contact with or do business with the SLA.

NEW YORK---A groundbreaking ceremony for the new Yankee Stadium was hosted Wednesday by Yankees principal owner George Steinbrenner, president Randy Levine with other dignitaries.

"The Age Boom, Local Challenges and Opportunities for the Region", will be the subject of a conference to be conducted Wednesday, Nov. 1 by the Buffalo branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

LAKE GEORGE---Jeffrey Clarke of Lake Luzerne, a patrol officer with the Warren County Sheriff's Department for the past 12 years, will face an administrative hearing Aug. 24 for allegedly drawing his service revolver and firing shots at a fleeing vehicle.

ALBANY---Governor George E. Pataki was joined Wednesday by State and local officials to officially rededicate the Alfred E. Smith State Office Building in Albany, which is now open after a major redevelopment and restoration project. The rehabilitation of the Smith Building is the final step in the "Albany Plan," a comprehensive strategy to modernize State offices and revitalize downtown areas in the Capital Region.

What you are about to read stemmed from a visit by a veteran to my office this past week. His sister-in-law had called asking if she could bring him in because "He has just been told by the VA that the cancer had spread to his liver and he only has 4 to 6 weeks to live." When the man came in last Monday, I thought he wanted to know about things like hospice, interment, and other similar aspects of veterans programs. I determined early on, that he was just there "to talk."

MINEOLA---A math teacher in the Port Washington Union Free School District has been accused of stealing more than $2,500 from the district.

MINEOLA---A loan officer with an HSBC Bank in Valley Stream has been charged with knowingly processing more than $2 million in bad loans.

ITHACA---Capital funding totaling $50 million has been awarded by the state to Cornell University for the construction of a state-of-the-art Animal Diagnostic Center at the College of Veterinary Medicine. The new center will be a Biosafety Level-3 (BSL-3) capable facility and will consolidate Cornell's exi