Saugerties Times letters (2/23-3/1)
Topics include: Saugerties town ethics investigation; Call Faso about ACA; Saugerties County Legislators disappoint; Free press is vital; Climate change is brain change.
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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.
Saugerties Times letters (2/16-22)
Topic include: Saugerties Farmers Market seeks new location, Trump had his chance, Faso votes for ‘Kleptocracy Protection Act’, protecting environment protects jobs, Flynn’s plausible deniability
Walter Maxwell and the importance of community
As political scientist Robert Putnam, author of the turn-of-the-21st-century classic Bowling Alone, America’s Declining Social Capital, expressed it, “If we can get more people engaged in community life in contexts that respect American pluralism, many of our other problems —to begin with, our politics — will be different.” Walter Maxwell lived that belief. Walter got it. Walter lives.
Hugh Reynolds: Bad apples annoy Mike Hein
Damned media! Ulster County Executive Mike Hein served up an estimated 4,000 words on dozens of subjects at his ninth annual state of the county address last week in New Paltz. What did most of the media pick up? Only a passing gotcha, complete with fuzzy Muppets graphics of two tired old bad apples who had the gall to question several executive initiatives over the past few years.
Saugerties Times letters (2/9-15)
Rec superintendent Chorvas responds to ethics allegations, Hein’s thin skin, Saugerties legislator lobbies Faso on Affordable Care Act, Saugerties Dems support Keith Ellison for national chair, some corrections & clarifications on the Pilgrim Pipeline article.
Saugerties Times letters (2/2-9)
Renewable energy, support local Dems, Faso’s misleading ACA questions, Planned Parenthood, Trump and more.
For NYC transplants, finding good work in the Hudson Valley can be a challenge
One of the ways to do so has been somehow to create one’s own job. Though that’s a tough road, thousands of people have tried to do it, combining their creative skills, business acumen, imagination and not a little tenacity.
Hugh Reynolds: Will Preet Bharara’s latest corruption probe ensnare Ulster Dems?
In 2015, Bill de Blasio’s Campaign for New York, since disbanded, was called to task for funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars through upstate Democratic committees in a failed attempt to elect a Democratic state senate. One of those county committees, to the tune of some $350,000, was Ulster County. Some locals dared call the activity money-laundering, charges denied by county Chairman Frank Cardinale, who said his committee acted entirely within the law.