Government
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010 - 8:05 pm
Governor David Paterson signed a bill aimed at pollution from home heating oil into law yesterday. By mid-2012, the sulfur content of home heating oil in New York State will be dramatically lower. (Two or three orders of magnitude lower, to get scientific... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010 - 4:27 pm
Pete Seeger and Mark Ruffalo were among the citizens calling for a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in Albany yesterday, as part of a protest organized by Frack Action. Frack Action's website has videos of the day's speechifying, including Seeger's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010 - 10:31 am
Do we have to care about Chelsea Clinton's Rhinebeck wedding? Apparently everyone else in the media universe is obsessed.
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010 - 8:41 am
According to the Times-Union, Cobleskill mayor Mark Nadeau -- who was caught on tape using the N-word along with Town Supervisor Tom Murray -- resigned in front of a large crowd at a village meeting last night:
He said that he was resigning, in part, to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 20, 2010 - 9:36 am
The man who would be governor is visiting the Catskills whistle-stop style this week, with appearances in Catskill and Cobleskill on Saturday and in Monticello yesterday. Today, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to appear at the New Paltz... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 - 11:32 am
At a Thursday public hearing, livestock-loving protesters won a reprieve from a proposed ordinance that would outlaw farm animals from Coxsackie, according to the Daily Mail:
The hue and cry prompted village officials to promise to take a second look at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 - 10:21 am
Even with the federal government pouring money into broadband internet infrastructure in rural areas, it's still hard for small towns to make sure they aren't forgotten. At the July 8 board meeting for the town of Jefferson, in Schoharie, the town's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 - 9:50 am
If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Cabot Oil and Gas, one of the early players in the natural gas leasing effort in the area, has put its entire leased acreage in Sullivan County up for sale.
It’s also doing the same in neighboring Wayne... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 17, 2010 - 10:17 pm
That's what the AP says today:
The city last year signed contracts to either buy land or conservation easements on a record 11,309 acres of land around its upstate reservoirs, marking the second year-to-year gain of more than 30 percent in the 13-year-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 16, 2010 - 9:35 pm
The town officials who got caught on tape using racial slurs in Cobleskill are finding themselves at the center of a firestorm. On Monday, the Times Journal reports, there was quite a crowd at a Cobleskill town meeting:
With signs that read, “You Lied to... Read more
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