Government
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 8:08 pm
The state budget is still in scandalous limbo -- and though the New York state Senate has washed its hands of the people's business and gone on Fourth of July vacation, the watchful PACs who lurk in the underbrush of the New York political landscape are... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 5:44 pm
From David Knudsen:
Yesterday (June 30th) the Senate finally got around to voting through a temporary reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program through Sept. 30th. So deals that have been stuck in limbo and not able to close due to the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 4:59 pm
Accusations of racism are flying in Cobleskill this week, after Cobleskill Highway Superintendent Tom Fissell sent out a late-night, town-wide email blasting Mayor Mark Nadeau and Supervisor Tom Murray for using the N-word. Yes, that N-word.
From the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 4:02 pm
The Times Herald-Record and the Daily Freeman are reporting that Jeffrey W. Kayes, the driver of a dump truck that sparked an enormous fire on Rte. 9W in the town of Esopus on Tuesday, is facing criminal charges. The Record reports that those charges are... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 30, 2010 - 10:06 am
Video of yesterday's fire posted by YouTube user Aylazon.
The inferno in the town of Esopus yesterday was nightmarish -- the flames were so hot that they melted a natural gas pipeline buried underground, according to the Daily Freeman. (They also... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 29, 2010 - 10:31 am
Having welcomed Marcellus shale drillers with open arms, Pennsylvania now thinks it might be a good idea to pass a tax on revenue from Marcellus wells. The Times-Tribune reports that the gas industry is seeing Pennsylvania's newfound zeal for a severance... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 11:28 pm
Ladies and gentlemen of New York State: We have a budget.
Sort of.
Hoping to seize control of a budget battle dominated for weeks by Gov. David A. Paterson, lawmakers voted on Monday to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in education and health... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 8:19 pm
Current deputy mayor Patrick O'Donnell is stepping down "within six weeks," according to the Times Herald-Record, and so far the only person to express interest in the job is Pete Healey, a nemesis of the current mayor:
One potential candidate has stepped... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 8:12 pm
A bag of money buried in a field in Sullivan County led to the arrest of 10 people on charges of -- we kid you not, readers -- spying for Russia. (Another suspect is still at large.) The New York Times's Charlie Savage reports:
Criminal complaints filed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 3:04 pm
After weeks -- months! -- of budget dithering and blathering, and despite the looming threat of a massive statewide government shutdown, the three-ring budget circus in Albany continues.
Supposedly, the Senate and Assembly agreed on a budget over the... Read more
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