Nicholas Pirro; Retirement has been almost as busy as work for the former county executive.(SERIES: The Post-Standard Achievement Awards)(Local)

From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) | Date: April 4, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: John Mariani Staff writer

Nick Pirro planned to take the time in the first few months of retirement to break away from the hurly burly of being Onondaga County executive and explore his new life a little.

That plan lasted less than a month.

On Jan. 23, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer named Pirro to a blue-ribbon panel commissioned to study ways the state can stop the upward spiral of school property taxes.

Once again, Nicholas J. Pir...

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