Newt Gingrich and other Donald Trump advisors are asking supporters to go to polling places and question anyone they might believe does not have the right to vote. “We won’t be having any of that here.”
$175,000 is expected to be raised by metering the city’s six parking lots in Uptown, Midtown and the Rondout.
The village is considering a few locations, but the main contender will be familiar to music fans (and anyone who has followed local development proposals for the last 20 or so years).
City officials plan to use a new law and a new state grant to target hundreds of “zombie” properties in
“Our town’s in a really bad position.”
John Faso says he supports the ticket that was the product of the nomination process, but hasn’t endorsed Donald J. Trump and isn’t sure he’ll vote for him. This hair-splitting might be wise: In the most recent poll, Trump held a five-point lead over Clinton, including an 18-point lead with independent voters across the 11 counties which comprise the 19th Congressional District,
“There are no new policies, no big building projects,” Supervisor Jeremy Wilber said of the proposed $7.8 million spending plan, which is an increase of 2 percent.
“We’ve cut every non-essential service that there is.”
County Executive Mike Hein noted that the proposed budget was the fifth in a row to include a property tax levy cut. But Hein also warned that skyrocketing health care costs — made worse by an ongoing dispute between insurer Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield and local healthcare provider HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley — posed a major threat to the county’s financial position.
For County Comptroller Elliott Auerbach, the big news in County Executive Mike Hein’s 2017 budget proposal was an item that went unmentioned in Hein’s unveiling address on Friday — a major cut in funding for the county’s independent fiscal watchdog.