“I love the truth. It's the facts I'm not a fan of.” ― Stephen Colbert
An interesting read on Schenectady’s turnaround with a few highlights (from Lessons in Downtown Redevelopment Success: The Story of Schenectady’s Comeback : Ray listed the five stages of development as they worked in his city, in rough chronological order: Stage 1: Coffee, Clubs, and...
As a taxpayer, I’m outraged at how my tax payer dollars are being used to build what I am sure to be Section 8 housing and sure to be low-income rentals for those people. Here is what prompts my outrage: mayor announces community development block...
With the proposition to reform the charter for Montgomery County, we once again see how the protectors of the taxpayers push back against the charter change vis-a-vis the County Executive: it costs too much. Coupled with that inevitably will be the salary — let’s say...
As if Tuesday couldn’t get any better: Tuesday being the day when you get to hear two songs from your favorite artist back-to-back-on the radio — two Meatloaf songs in row! In Rocktober! Kill me now. Anyway, a few quick things unrelated to sonic drudgery:...
A press release from Mayor Thane below. My quick take is that this is precisely right in the kind of economic development efforts that need, and have been desperately needed for the past decades, to jump start the city. It goes without saying that there...
More great news for the demolitionists as Esquire faces the wrecking ball! Let’s not forget the demolitionists’ underlying religiosity on demolition — the more we wreck, the better off we are. Of course, the funding for demolition through bonding and its attendant costs to the...
According to local folklore, courtesy of the local airwaves, the city has “people leaving in droves” and the number of houses for sale is skyrocketing with virtually every home on the market compared to a few months ago and last year. Or so we’re told...
A prevalent meme in the city budget saga centers on the claim that hire of a director for the Community and Economic Development Department (CEDD) is wholly unnecessary; indeed, it’s claimed, that we have the city IDA and “the County” doing that for us already....
Before we delve into the broken budget and its broken appendage of an economic development engine, I wanted to put a fact on the table: the population of the City of Amsterdam grew. Not by a lot, but for the first time in a long...
Like Groundhog Day, the usual debate on PILOTS and non-profits swirls. Just so you follow the thinking behind the policies advocated here: Non-Profits — non-profits are a problem if and only if we can deem which non-profits are the problem. So non-profits like the churches,...
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