Government
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 - 5:29 pm
Democracy: It's so expensive. And it really snarls up the morning commute. But thanks to some really enlightened thinking by Binghamton University and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the city of Binghamton won't have to suffer the slings and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 - 4:48 pm
This being 2010, he announced it on his blog. Stay tuned.
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 - 2:35 pm
When it's shot by a police officer in the town of Ulster, that is. Via the Daily Freeman.
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010 - 10:08 am
The DEP is losing patience with Phoenicia, which is still dithering about whether or not to build a wastewater treatment plant. The Daily Freeman reports that the DEP has threatened to withdraw $17.2 millions in funding from the project, and that the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010 - 10:01 am
On Friday, Governor David Paterson signed a law that aims to limit water pollution. Amazingly, it had nothing to do with fracking. From the Messenger Post:
Watershed groups Friday announced Gov. David Paterson has signed Senate Bill 3780-A, which... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 - 2:54 pm
A former Ellenville junkyard which has been declared a Superfund site is on the federal Environmental Protection Agency's agenda this month.
Once Ellenville Scap Iron and Metal, the site is now 24 acres of leaking car batteries, heavy metals, and known... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 - 2:34 pm
Congressman Scott Murphy, who represents most of the Catkills region in the U.S. House of Representatives, is putting his weight behind a very specific cause: cell phone service in the Delaware County town of Andes.
He issued a press release yesterday in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Since the surprising passage of a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing by the New York Senate on Tuesday night, the political chess pieces have been moving around the board.
Our own Catskills-area state senator John Bonacic, who reversed his previous pro-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 1:30 pm
Kingston Citizens reports that there is a new foreclosure hotline in Kingston:
If you are having a problem with a neighboring foreclosed property, there is a new hotline number for property complaints that citizens should feel free to use. That number is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 9:50 am
A scary, official-looking letter was sent to a woman in the Bronx after she signed a petition supporting a candidate running against state senator Pedro Espada. The New York Times' City Room blog has the story:
In bold-face capital letters, it read “... Read more
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