The Finger Lakes region is getting $63.9 million through the state’s annual Regional Economic Development Council awards. The funding will cover 110 different projects across the nine-county area served by the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council. The awards are based on an annual strategic plan prepared by the council. One of the bigger awards […]
Regional Economic Development Councils
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Finger Lakes region gets state funding for projects
The state is providing the Finger Lakes region with $63.9 million through the annual Regional Economic Development Council program. State economic development officials announced the funding today. The awards were based on an annual strategic plan that the state’s 10 Regional Economic Development Councils prepared. The Finger Lakes money will be split between 110 different […]
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About that Upstate Revitalization Competition…
Late Sunday, Governor Andrew Cuomo and state legislative leaders announced that they had a basic agreement around the 2015-16 state budget. And that agreement, they said, included the governor’s request for $1.5 billion to fund the Upstate Revitalization Competition. But yesterday, the whole matter got a little hazy. Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos made […]
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The future and the race for the Cuomo Billions
Nationally and here at
home, poverty and wealth disparity are crippling us, and I’m seeing a lot of
small-bore, more-of-the-same plans to deal with them.
