http://cnylink.com/blogs Walt Shepperd is a veteran of Central New York's political scuffle, having covered government and politics in Syracuse for more than four decades before being asked for press credentials. He is the Senior Editor of the City Eagle and the Mayor of Montgomery Street in downtown Syracuse. Shepperd is also the producer of the The Media Unit, Central New York national award winning teen performance and production troupe. Samadee is his alter ego. At least that's the rumor. en-us 60 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:31:46 -0700 City Scuffle According to City Auditor Phil LaTessa, Democratic designee for the 119th state Assembly District seat on the November 2 ballot, the information his people have been gathering http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1280327506 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1280327506 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:21:48 -0700 City Scuffle When Joan Christensen was elected to the 119th state Assembly District seat, with a surge of support from the city’s 17th Ward carrying her to a Democratic primary victory over http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1279722108 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1279722108 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:28:05 -0700 City Scuffle Jane Fahey-Suddaby inherits some name recognition in her bid for the Democratic nomination in the race to replace the retiring state Assembly Person Joan Christensen. She will http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1279510085 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1279510085 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:26:43 -0700 City Scuffle After years of culinary deprivation, Wednesday, June 30 will live on in local history as an occasion of grilled liberation. Cheeseburgers reappeared on the menus at Pastabilities. http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1279510003 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1279510003 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:15:11 -0700 City Scuffle Howie Hawkins didn’t want to run for governor this year. As in recent years—and probably really in the back of his mind during his perennial campaigning over almost two http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1277493311 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1277493311 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:17:36 -0700 City Scuffle In October 1968, the Senior Editor (SE), then Editor and Publisher of the underground Nickel Review, was posed with a cosmic question. It took only four decades to deliver the http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1276874256 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1276874256 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:20:07 -0700 City Scuffle It was a good start. We shook hands. Actually, he gripped my proffered finger briefly in his five month old palm, and we shook. He arrived asleep, but awoke to be fussed over by http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1275492007 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1275492007 Thu, 27 May 2010 09:29:59 -0700 City Scuffle The football field at Kirk Park is chain locked on a Thursday evening, but the thick grassy expanse between the field and the street is the site of one of the twice a week http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1274977799 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1274977799 Wed, 19 May 2010 08:06:31 -0700 City Scuffle The county Bureau of Aging and Youth’s Media Award and the Syracuse Press Club’s Public Affairs Television Award are presented each year to media professionals for notable http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1274281591 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1274281591 Thu, 06 May 2010 11:03:31 -0700 City Scuffle Samadee knew it was time. Listening to former New York City Mayor Ed Koch call for the formation of a New York Uprising, taking the Albany Clown Show head on in what the 85 year http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1273169011 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1273169011 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:04:12 -0700 City Scuffle They talked about more effective uses of stage lighting and how music sometimes distracted from narrative flow, about dances coming out of the moment and how casters on set http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1272481452 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1272481452 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:48:40 -0700 City Scuffle Samadee went to the Tea Party in Clinton Square. Having seen Sarah Palin on television telling a national gathering of the group, “This Tea Party is the future of politics in http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1271958520 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1271958520 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:58:07 -0700 City Scuffle The middle school students gathered in the big Room A at SU’s Marley Education Center were slow to respond to Otto Feliu’s, “Good Morning,” opening the Rite Aid Drug Quiz Show http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1271260687 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1271260687 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:17:36 -0700 City Scuffle A flurry of candidate withdrawals sprung an awakening for Samadee. Unable, as he had been, to generate the Big Mo for announcement of his entry into the gubernatorial race, http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1270678656 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1270678656 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:52:02 -0700 City Scuffle Andrea Schnobrich sits at a long table in a room just inside the entrance to Fowler High School with three colleagues from CNY Works, processing applications for summer jobs http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1270223522 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1270223522 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:07:10 -0800 City Scuffle Samadee paused at the newspaper racks in the Empire News on Armory Square. Two dollars for The New York Times—in Canada $2.25, maybe higher in some parts of that country, and http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1268334430 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1268334430 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:14:53 -0800 City Scuffle Many of the accomplishments of the Driscoll administration are currently seeking ways off the drawing board, easing their ways through bureaucratic procedures, or nearing http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1267643693 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1267643693 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:01:28 -0800 City Scuffle It was a tough read, even in an age of alphabet soup organizations all trying to change some element of how we lived. SCFFI. Skif-fee. The people’s television. Actually, it http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1267041688 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1267041688 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:25:10 -0800 City Scuffle Samadee missed an opportunity to announce his gubernatorial candidacy when, after a week of local snow totaled more inches than all of last year, his campaign canvas disappeared. http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1265909110 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1265909110 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:06:05 -0800 City Scuffle Stephanie Miner had planned her mayoral inaugural outside in Clinton Square because we some hardy folks. Appealing to that hardiness seemed to emerge as a theme for her http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1265393165 http://cnylink.com/blogs/wshepperd/view_blog.php?blog_id=1265393165