Stalking the wild gerrymander
A recent Rolling Stone article on the NY-19 Congressional race repeated the common fallacy that our congressional districts are gerrymandered. They’re not.
Voices
Hugh Reynolds: Politics is a bulldozer
Did anybody get the license numbers of those bulldozers that buried Paul VanBlarcum and Abe Uchitelle at the Ulster County Democratic convention in Kingston Monday night? I think they had blue plates.
Kids’ Almanac (5/24-5/31)
Make your own binoculars at the Catskill Interpretive Center’s Family Day; History Scavenger Hunt in Uptown Kingston; World War II events at FDR Library & Museum; Map Launch Party at Arrowood Farms.
SUNY New Paltz program aims to increase number of entrepreneurs in Hudson Valley
SUNY New Paltz has been extending its outreach within the Hudson Valley economy in new ways. The latest move came when its School of Business debuted a new program designed to strengthen the region’s start-up ecosystem early this month.
Building a human habitat
To get help from a Habitat for Humanity, a household needs to be making less than 60 percent of local median income; in Ulster County, that’s about $48,000 for a family of four. Habitat seeks to help families that are living in unsafe or overcrowded housing, or paying more than 30 percent of their income in rent. That’s a description that fits a shockingly large slice of the local population.
Kingston Times letters (5/17-23)
Topics include: Let Mayor Noble do his job; I’m for Delgado; Opioids … me?; McLean is trying; I’m for Rhodes.
Hugh Reynolds: The Bacon Brothers
Say what you will about retiring the Republican state senators John Bonacic and Bill Larkin, but they brought home the bacon.
Ulster County’s tech rainmakers
Ulster County may be an inflection point in terms of its economic relationship with New York City. Will it continue to be a nice place for city people to spend a restful weekend or a tourist’s visit? Or will it finally develop a sustainable economic base so that people with skills, locals and visitors alike, can earn a decent living here?
Kids’ Almanac (5/17-5/24)
Endangered Species Weekend at Millbrook’s Trevor Zoo, Slabsides Day in West Park | Make seed paper and seed balls at Clermont | Spring Land of Chocolate MyKingstonKids Fest
New Paltz Times: School Board election letters
Community members weigh in on the May 15 trustee and budget vote.