Congressman John Faso didn’t exactly wow ‘em at last week’s Ulster County Regional Chamber of Commerce monthly meeting, but he brought the Kingston breakfast crowd up to date on a host of issues, however unresolved.
A six-pack of Democratic congressional candidates bashing Republicans on Super Bowl Sunday? What were they thinking?
Cuomo’s frivolous lawsuit over property tax deduction; a response to the mayor’s state of the city address.
Contractors began ripping up 11.5 miles of county-owned U&D tracks at the Ashokan Reservoir last week to create a rail trail. Meanwhile, the rail operation at the eastern (Kingston) end of the tracks reported just over 24,000 riders on its Polar Express run from Kingston Plaza to West Hurley last November and December.
Old Kingston is officially dead. After 99 years of buying, selling and swapping, Sam’s Surplus Store in Uptown Kingston is closing their doors.
Selections from the Jan. 11 print edition.
The Democrats suffer no such restrictions as Ronald Reagan’s famous Eleventh Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of fellow Republicans.” Take Democrat assemblyperson Kevin Cahill’s unloading on Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s state-of-the-state message last week. Badda-bing!
How many people in the Hudson Valley know that some of their hardest-working neighbors could have their retirement benefits ripped away? It’s true, and there’s no end in sight to the growing problem.
Politics being a game of deliberate deception, I strongly advise readers to take the many political polls that will be issued this year with a pillar of salt.
“I appreciate and respect our community police. I just want those officers who disregard their duty and who harass, injure, and harm black members of our community to be held responsible.”