With a name like Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council, you’d think we’d get some actual regional planning. Instead, the goal seems to be insuring that every area in the region gets a share of state money. All right: I’m being snarky. The council does have representatives from throughout the Rochester-Finger Lakes region working together […]
regional planning
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STAMP’s location problem
Buildings could start going up at the Western New York Science, Technology, and Advanced Manufacturing Park in rural Genesee County within a year. But not everyone is thrilled about the park’s location. The 1,250-acre complex will be located in the Town of Alabama, northwest of Batavia, in an area blanketed with farms and protected wild […]
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‘Community’ solutions
Urban journal County Executive Maggie Brooks has been promoting a sales-tax plan she calls the “community solution.” She’s got her hands full trying to sell it, because city and suburban officials don’t think it’s based on the concept of “community” at all. They’re afraid it’ll take money away from them. Which brings us to an […]
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News briefs 7.31.02
Fountain of youth Brad Welker and Ernest Orlando playing Peter Pan at Seabreeze. Wife, kids, job, foot fungus, life in general got you down? Find yourself praying you won’t wake up in the morning? Baptize yourself in chlorinated redemption and be saved. Water parks can cure your blues and ease the heat. And no […]
