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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 - 5:09 pm
The Catskill Chronicle reports. County manager David Fanslau:
I strongly urge any resident who lives near a stream, creek or river to be prepared and alert as this storm progresses, and to take preventative measures to protect their property through... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 - 10:51 am
Over at the Kingston Progressive blog, Ulster County legislator Mike Madsen is full of ire about the Supreme Court's stunning 5-4 decision yesterday striking down limits on corporate political campaigning.
Do you realize what WalMart is about to do to any... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 - 5:20 pm
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office just released a statement on a settlement with Lafarge. The cementmaker, one of the nation's largest, owns plants around the state. Lafarge has come under fire for its relatively high levels of mercury, nitrogen... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 - 10:34 am
Ask not on whom the budget axe falls; it falls on thee. Paterson's proposed budget contains deep cuts across the board, and it's drawing howls of protest from affected agencies. The Times-Union has a roundup.
State Senator John Bonacic, whose district... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 - 9:47 pm
Both friends and foes of natural-gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale in New York plan to rally at the Capitol building in Albany next Monday.
Catskill Mountainkeeper, Environmental Advocates of New York and other anti-drilling groups are organizing buses... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 - 8:41 pm
The Senate joined the Assembly in passing a broad ethics reform bill this afternoon, calling it "the strongest ethics reform in a generation."
But Gov. Paterson has already vowed to veto it, saying it doesn't go far enough.
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 - 3:44 pm
Live cam from the Senate henhouse, where foxes are debating a sweeping ethics bill even as I type.
NY Senate's chief policy adviser Michael Kink is liveblogging the session on Twitter. Also livetweeting: @albanycitizen1.
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 - 1:12 pm
Well, that didn't take long. The ink was barely dry on Gov. David Paterson's proposal to slap a three percent tax on gas revenues from the Marcellus and Utica shales when IOGA-NY issued a statement condemning it.
Brad Gill, IOGA of NY executive director,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 - 9:27 pm
Dick May, author of the witty and perspicacious Seeing Greene blog, takes a potshot at the Catskill Village police force, for their longstanding practice of not providing public access to police reports:
NOT recorded in the Blotter, for the past four... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 - 11:39 am
The New York State governor's office has released its proposed 2010-11 budget. Press release here.
There's plenty of pain to go around in Paterson's proposed budget, from deep cuts to education, healthcare and environmental protection funding to a $1 per... Read more
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