Hugh Reynolds: The watchdog, defanged
Personally, in choosing between the comptroller and the academic on one side and the rest of county government on the other, I find the angels on the side of Auerbach and Benjamin— but angels don’t vote.
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My only sunshine
New innovations in solar panels and the grid come to the Hudson Valley.
Letter: Zero Place development going all out for New Paltz
The developer explains changes made to the proposed building on Rt. 32 in the village, including public amenities, pedestrian/bike safety, accessibility, and a reduction in the building’s size.
Hugh Reynolds: Mischief in numbers
Last November, about midway through the annual county budget adoption process, Ulster County comptroller Elliott Auerbach alerted legislature chairman Ken Ronk to what some might have considered a startling development.
How we should compete
Everyone knows places like NYC and San Francisco are doing well, but a recent analysis concluded that all the income gains are eaten up by cost of living.
Ribbon-cutting of new $48-million Science Building at SUNY New Paltz will take place March 9
The official ribbon-cutting and tour of the steel-framed, slate-clad two-story $48-million Science Building on the northeast corner of the New Paltz campus will celebrate what the invitation calls “the burgeoning enrollments in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields” at the school.
Hugh Reynolds: Faso needs a strategy
Congressman Faso has decided that large town hall meetings are unproductive, staged and a waste of his own and everyone’s else’s time. I think he’s wrong on every count. These rallies may not represent all the voices of a bitterly divided people, but they are people and they have voices.
Cool, clear water
Maybe it’s already time to be talking not about too little water but too much — the more common condition in the New York City reservoir system in springtime.
Hugh Reynolds: Snow jobs
After years of delay, Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week dropped $8 million in a capital development grant at the state-owned Belleayre Ski Center at Highmount.
A sneak preview of the Thomas Cole House restoration
Thomas Cole’s home on Spring Street in Catskill has left behind its near-death experience of the 1970s and as an independent non-profit organization affiliated with the National Park Service has been engaged in a recovery that would have seemed miraculous a generation ago.