Challenges include traffic and parking problems; the town’s loss of mortgage tax income due to the numbers of Brooklynites purchasing homes with cash; a loss of long-term rentals to the Airbnb phenomenon, and shifts to the local equalization rate that are getting fueled by short term rentals which raise the value of local homes not seen until after they sell.
In the crowded field of Democrats in the 19th Congressional District seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. John Faso (R-Kinderhook) next year, two have taken the lead in one respect — outraising the incumbent in what most observers expect to be an expensive race.
Mountain high, road narrow Hunter resident Roy Silver urged the town board to do more to stop large trucks from
While the event featured no voting or other evidence of political theater which can be the hallmark of this political process, its organizers opted for a process that sidelined not only non-party members, but other local candidates and members of the press, as well.
Incumbent town supervisor Marybeth Majestic, a registered Democrat who won on the Republican line in 2015, failed in her bid to snare the Democratic Party nomination this time around.
About a dozen speakers of the 20 or so area residents at the Saugerties town planning board meeting cited health studies showing damage to people living near the towers. To blame, they said, was radiation emitted from cellphone transmissions.
Democrats have held their caucus and the slate is set. Republicans won’t settle on their candidates until September, but strong contenders have declared their intentions.
A public hearing on a law intended to reduce the concentration of registered sex offenders living in local motels has been scheduled for July 19.
Schneiderman detailed a plan of attack on a local level against the recent reversal of liberal public policies concerning immigration, incarceration, environmental protection and affordable healthcare.
The family of former New York congressman Maurice D. Hinchey, whose career in the U.S. House of Representatives and the