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It's also hard to be surprised George Dentes is still complaining about a budget process that didn't give him everything he wanted.

Living in Dryden: More on the County Executive notion 2003

It's also hard to be surprised George Dentes is still complaining about a budget process that didn't give him everything he wanted.

Living in Dryden: December 2003 Archives 2003

Capital spending issues, especially for the jail and highways, drove the budget beyond the 3% levy increase cap. $48,000 for a half-time prosecutor, which seems to be the same money that led to last year's "Dentes Snuffs Drug Court" headline, was added Friday, along with $200,000 more for highways.

Living in Dryden: County budget sorting out 2004

At the county level, District Attorney George Dentes relived last year's failed attempt to get more money out of the county budget, even losing a crucial vote because he said he wouldn't participate in Drug Court.

Living in Dryden: September 2004 Archives 2004

Capital spending issues, especially for the jail and highways, drove the budget beyond the 3% levy increase cap. $48,000 for a half-time prosecutor, which seems to be the same money that led to last year's "Dentes Snuffs Drug Court" headline, was added Friday, along with $200,000 more for highways.

Living in Dryden: October 2004 Archives 2004

At the county level, District Attorney George Dentes relived last year's failed attempt to get more money out of the county budget, even losing a crucial vote because he said he wouldn't participate in Drug Court.

Living in Dryden: Dryden school board approves teachers' contract 2004

I've got a letter to the editor in the Ithaca Journal today on George Dentes 'fight against such notoriously soft-hearted liberals as the Bush administration on the matter of drug courts.

Living in Dryden: November 2003 Archives 2003

Meanwhile, District Attorney George Dentes continues to howl about the costs of any alternatives to his prosecuting people and locking them up in expensive prisons paid for by our state taxes.

Living in Dryden: November 2003 Archives 2003

One of the more fiery issues in Tompkins County lately has been the decision of George Dentes, District Attorney, to pull out of the drug court that Tim Joseph, Chairman of the County Legislature, supports.

Living in Dryden: November 2003 Archives 2003

(Dentes was responding to the reduction of his office budget by half a prosecutor, but has never been particularly fond of alternatives to New York's Rockefeller drug laws.)

Living in Dryden: November 2003 Archives 2003