Sales-tax budgeting 101
Sales tax makes up the largest share of county revenue, but it can vary from year to year, making accurate forecasting important.
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Kingston schools official: ‘We are going to balance this budget one way or another’
School officials in the Kingston City School District released preliminary 2020-21 budget figures last week, and while they cautioned that there are still plenty of unknowns, they may need to trim roughly $4.3 million from the $190 million proposal to get under the estimated 1.72 percent tax levy increase mandated by New York State.
Police name victim of Kingston shooting death
Police say a 31-year-old man was shot and killed at a Kingston apartment complex on Tuesday evening. The Feb. 11 homicide is the third in the city since last October, when Daniel Thomas Jr. was gunned down near the corner of Prospect and Cedar streets.
Man killed in Kingston shooting
The Kingston Police Department is presently investigating a homicide that occurred in the area of Sheehan Court. Earlier this evening
New Paltz water problem: SUNY cancels classes, asks students to leave until next week
Concerns over the municipal water supply in New Paltz have led the university to cancel classes through Saturday, Feb. 15,
Travelers from China non-viral, says Ulster County
Four Ulster County residents returning from trips to coronavirus-struck areas of China agreed to self-isolate for two weeks and have
No easy path for activists’ demands for Kingston police reforms, city officials say
Police reform advocates say they’re frustrated by the Common Council’s failure to move ahead quickly with legislation that would make major changes to the makeup and power of the city’s police commission and revamp the process for handling civilian complaints of officer misconduct.
Police investigate shooting at Ulster County trailer park
Detectives from the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office are investigating an attempted robbery and shooting late last evening in the Town
Waste not want not
How green is my Hudson Valley? Getting greener all the time, but pesky problems, most of which are universal to human societies, remain unresolved. For instance, how does a sustainable economy deal with the piles of waste it keeps accumulating? How can it learn to convert waste into waste products with a value above zero?
Letter: Beware rent control
In this letter, a reader writes that rent control policies now being considered in Kingston have failed when tried in San Francisco and New York City because they cause investment to dry up and fail to address the reason for rising rents: more demand than supply. Instead, he writes, the solution is to build more rental units.