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Saugerties Times letters (3/9-15)
Selections from the March 9 edition of Saugerties Times, including thoughts on the Saugerties town budget and national health insurance reform.
Letter: Saugerties pool report premature; community involvement sought
Recent reporting gives the impression that we have a design and estimated price tag for a facility. This is not the case.
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.
Letter: Politicians should attend, not duck, town halls
Town halls, mainstays of constituent /representative dialog, have been being abandoned by many who claim the outpouring of citizen concern is “disruptive” or “unproductive.” Boisterous as some may become, the skilled and open politician will allow for intensity of expression, acknowledge concerns, engage the crowd thus create dialog, not just promote dogma.
Saugerties Times letters to the editor (3/2-9)
CSX’s slow response to rail crossing concerns, wave of progressive protests, Faso should be paying attention, single-payer health care, protections for LGBTQ children.
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.