In the Hudson Valley, ag still rules! A big early-20th-century barn has popped up at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, reminding passersby on Route 9 that there’s much more there than the midway at the annual Dutchess County Fair.
Topics include: Faso meets with mental health providers, 2017 town board campaign, the decline of organized labor, GOP shell game on health care, drug testing our teens, hope for addicts, keeping Saugerties beautiful, post-prom success.
President Donald Trump has said that his America First policies can significantly — hugely! — increase the rate of growth of America’s gross domestic product. The average annual growth pf GDP over the past decade has hovered around two per cent. Trump is sure he can increase that to four percent. In fact, he recently told Fox News that with better trade deals the United States should be able to lift it to five per cent in a few years.
This week’s topics include: Faso’s choice not to hold town hall meetings, women power needed, the great health care swindle, the spirit of our laws, banning memorializing resolutions and Little League congratulations.
The mission of the Hudson Valley Pathways Academy, a small publicly funded secondary school on Mary’s Avenue in Kingston, is to graduate students with both technical knowledge and real-world skills. In a world as rapidly changing as ours, that’s no small ambition.
Topics include: Faso’s troubling statements at town hall meeting, Trump’s foreign policy, don’t repeal health care law without a replacement, Saugertiesian’s foreign trip suggests need to invest in high-speed rail.
A look at two local hotel plans, one traditional and one non-traditional. What do they have in common? Both would like a tax break from the county.
President Trump’s proposed budget wants to scale back on a number of job training programs, including those aimed at helping seniors, disadvantaged young people and unemployed Americans.
How much should a town supervisor make?
It’s an exciting but disconcertingly unsettled time here in the hinterlands between the vast and troubled rust belt to our north and west and the bustling problem-plagued metropolis to the south. All eyes are glued to the screen watching the soap opera that national politics, where one person’s narcissistic claptrap is another’s revealed wisdom. What is a poor soul to do?