One of Republican Rob Astorino’s gubernatorial campaign planks is the repeal of New York’s new gun-control laws. So it makes a certain amount of sense that he’d hold an event at a gun shop. Astorino, who is the Westchester County executive, announced his intention to run against Governor Andrew Cuomo yesterday. He made a campaign […]
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Will Duffy return to Rochester?
The rumor that Bob Duffy will depart the Cuomo administration to head the Rochester Business Alliance when current RBA leader Sandra Parker retires at the end of the year is sprouting legs. Neither Duffy nor Cuomo have done anything to quash the speculation. Instead, Duffy’s refusal to discuss it has stoked the buzz into a […]
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Passing the bucks: Cuomo’s latest give-away
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s tax-free zones at state universities are just the latest move to create politically favored businesses and insulate their owners from the rigors of market competition. Cuomo and others in both parties who back such laws say they spur entrepreneurs. What they are really doing is creating an enlarged body of business owners […]
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Cuomo’s big gamble to create new jobs
We’re a long way from getting a casino in Rochester, but the idea keeps raising its head –currently by the governor himself. So I keep poking around, collecting studies on the impact of casinos on their communities. And my conclusion, based on what I keep finding, is that any municipality thinking about embracing a casino […]
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Our tone-deaf governor: Cuomo and the cities
Our governor is one tough guy. He is Getting Things Done. And as he reminds us frequently, he plans to Get Lots More Things Done. One of the latest things he’s doing is ending the financial crisis in the cities of New York State. “Let’s stop talking about the issue,” he said when he announced […]
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Violence on the mind
The manhunt following the tragedy in Boston ended Friday night better than it might have. Now we want answers. Why did these two young men – one of them little more than a boy, really – want to do this? Was the target of their hatred the marathon? Boston? The United States? Did they get […]
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Cuomo compromises on IDA reform
When Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed a series of reforms for the state’s industrial development agencies, IDA representatives and local elected officials protested. Cuomo essentially wanted to restrict the agencies’ ability to grant exemptions on state sales tax, but local officials said that would rob them of a useful economic development incentive. Well, perhaps predictably, Cuomo’s […]
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WEEK AHEAD: Cuomo’s budget, MCC site meeting, planning downtown, College Town designs, chat with the police chief
Governor Andrew Cuomo will present his 2013 to 2014 budget proposal to the State Legislature at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, January 23. The proposal will likely top $130 billion. During his State of the State address earlier this month, Cuomo rolled out a load of new initiatives: he offered school districts extra funding to extend […]
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Times: Cuomo plan would allow Marcellus Shale fracking in some counties
A New York Times article says state officials are discussing plans to allow natural gas extraction via high-volume hydraulic fracturing in some counties. But it would only be allowed in communities that support the technique’s use. The Times says the proposal would limit high-volume fracking to sections of the Marcellus Shale deeper than 2,000 feet; […]
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Primary time in the puppet regime
It’s a shame former Conservative Party candidate Daniel Mahony moved to Connecticut earlier this month, thereby disqualifying himself from the race for lieutenant governor. If his running mate, Rochester businessman Tom Golisano, won the governorship and subsequently abdicated to, say, goal tend for the Buffalo Sabres, Mahony would make a great Guv. He’s got one […]
