Government
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 1:30 pm
The DEC is mulling some new regulations, in an attempt to crack down on the vastly idiotic, yet depressingly widespread, practice of leaving food out where bears can get it. From the Adirondack Daily Enterprise:
The new regulations would ban the feeding... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 1:03 pm
An AP story in the Daily Freeman announces with some fanfare that the state depertment of health and the DEC have just developed a new online, interactive map plotting the incidence of cancer and pollution sites.
That's fantastic. Way to put powerful data... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 12:50 pm
In the Daily Mail today: Greene County Council on the Arts pleads the state not to decimate its arts budget.
Kay Stamer, executive director of the Greene County Council on the Arts, came before the county Legislature Wednesday with a plea of support.
“... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, May. 8, 2010 - 5:39 pm
Cathryn Platine, the Reverend Mother of the Maetreum of Cybele.
Palenville’s loudest property tax critic is a witch.
Cathryn Platine, a towering 60-year-old pagan who can trace her ancestry back to one of the witches who was hung in Salem in 1692, is the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 8:29 pm
The Catskill Watershed Corporation just launched a new website that will, according to their press release, "promote the Catskill region as a place to visit, relocate and do business," "provide a "geographic, demographic and cultural overview of the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 12:23 pm
A few weeks ago, Crossroads developer Dean Gitter was swearing up and down that state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli wasn't holding up a key 2007 Belleayre land deal because of the hefty price tag, never mind what the New York Post had to say about it.
Looks... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 6, 2010 - 8:17 pm
From the New York Times this afternoon:
Joseph L. Bruno, the former Republican Senate majority leader who reigned for more than a decade as one of the most powerful politicians in New York State, was sentenced to two years on Thursday for concealing... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 6, 2010 - 3:49 pm
During yesterday's meeting of the New Paltz Central School District Board of Education, where the district's latest painful budget plan was presented for public comment, the only one to speak up about spending was a 15-year-old:
At the hearing, Sylvia... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 6, 2010 - 3:26 pm
The New York Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a class-action lawsuit targeting the state system of providing public defenders to poor defendants in criminal court. The New York Times reports:
New York’s highest court ruled on Thursday that a broad... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 6, 2010 - 12:14 pm
The town of Catskill has given Wal-Mart a million-dollar reduction on how much its Catskill store is worth, which will help the global corporation lower its town and county taxes by a bundle this year, according to the Daily Mail. Catskill's reasoning? It... Read more
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