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• New York to Run Out of Cash Next Month if Nothing is Done

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  Up until this point in the drama that has become the State's budget gap there has been no specific date set in stone when the State would run out of money. This has allowed politics to get in the way of any real reductions in State spending or finding new' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:19pm EST
  

• Better late than never

  —NYCO's Blog

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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:54pm EST
  by NYCO

• License plate rebellion

  —NYCO's Blog

  Number of comments: 2
  

  The Post-Standard has a roundup of the intense outcry over the new New York license plates. Most of the rancor seems to be about the mandatory $25 fee that is supposed to raise up to $130 million for the state’s coffers, but I’ve talked to a lot of people [...]

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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:24am EST
  by NYCO

• Utica Master Plan Due in April

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  Well it appears as though the Roefaro Administration has made due on one of their campaign promises, and that is to create a master plan for the city that will drive its development priorities in the future. With a master plan in place the City can focus on renewal [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:34am EST
  

• DMV Releases New Liscence Plate Design

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  Since last year's budget was adopted I had been quite curious as to what our new license plates would look like. Beginning on April 1st of next year we will be required to purchase the new plates for $25 when our vehicles are registered. Personally I feel as though our' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 1:12pm EST
  

• Old skool!

  —NYCO's Blog

  Number of comments: 2
  

  Check out the “new” New York State license plates we’ll all be forced to buy starting in April 2010!

  How appropriate… since we’re already headed back to the economy of the mid-1970s.

  (I gotta confess: I’ve missed the blue and gold.)

  Updated: BuffaloPundit is right…

  Feel the excitement!

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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 2:15pm EST
  by NYCO

• Political Economy Trap, Part 2

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  This post is a response to Brendan's devil's advocate comment on the previous PET post from yesterday. His comment presented two common objections to a second round of stimulus, which I felt I could expand upon and better articulate my argument from before, plus add necessary detail and arguments. The [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:23pm EST
  

• Political Economy Trap

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  Two recent muses over the weekend:
  
  1. The unemployment rate is at 10.2% as of Friday.
  2. Recent election results and winners have made GOP majorities in CNY larger than previous.
  
  Obviously, new electees resulting from #2 have no bearing on #1. Unfortunately for the 10.2%, the original [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 11:26pm EST
  

• IDA seeks additional Funds to Market County to Companies

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  Ahh the timeless saying that you get what your pay for. And if this years marketing budget for the County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) is any indication of past funding, we have definitely gotten what we have paid into attempting to lure companies to our wonderful selection of business [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:50pm EST
  

• Arcuri Announces Support for Health Care Reform Bill

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  Rep. Michael Arcuri has recently announced his support for the health care bill that is now in front of the House of Representatives. While this announcement does not come as a shock, it does show more depth to him than I had previously thought he possessed after voting against [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:43pm EST
  

• Senate Democrats Attempting to Use Budget Issue to Distance Themselves From Paterson

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  Note: As a political blogger I have always attempted to capture the issues and avoid perpetuating rumors and personal attacks for the sake of readership. But I am now going to play Perez Hilton, as this is just too good to pass up.
  It seems as though Senate Democrats and [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:30am EST
  

• Will Budget Woes be Dealt With on Monday?

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  Gov. David Paterson is going to attempt to address a special joint session of the legislature on Monday in light of the current budgetary crisis. So far he has yet to actually call for a special session, but such a request can be made within 24 hours time. Senate [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:11am EST
  

• Owens Wins NY-23 as Hoffman Conceedes

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  Its official. Democrat Bill Owens will be the first democrat to represent NY-23 since the 1850's! At 12:10 last evening Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman conceeded the race to Owens after being down by 4,300 votes (recounts usually do cost the tax payers a lot of money so' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:51am EST
  

• Odds and ends

  —NYCO's Blog

  Number of comments: 1
  

  As of this writing, it looks like Stephanie Miner is Syracuse’s new mayor. More girl powah in the O.C. (er, Onondaga County). Wondering if any Upstate counties have ever had a female county exec and a female mayor of the major city, at the same time? I probably should know [...]

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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:54pm EST
  by NYCO

• Election Night 2009: A Liveblog

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  It's almost eight o'clock, so we have just over an hour before polls close , once we start seeing the results pour in, this post will be updated with specific results, and commentary on those results, I'll be paying special attention to the Herkimer County Legislative elections, along with New' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:00pm EST
  

• The Road to Copenhagen: Book Review of "The End of Nature"

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  With environmental issues at the forefront of the media's mind these days in the run-up of the Copenhagen conference I decided to read a book that I had been planning on for a while. The book is "The End of Nature" by Bill McKibben and was written in 1989 as' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:26am EST
  

• The Political Ramifications of the NY-23 Special Election

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  With the amount of partisan bickering going on these days it has become apparent that the political landscape is changing as we speak, but here is some concrete proof of that.  The special election for the 23rd congressional district, the seat formerly held by John McHugh (who is now the [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 4:21pm EST
  

• Proposed Twenty-Year Transportation Plan Announced: Results, More of the Same

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  Recently the Herkimer Oneida Counties Transportation Survey (HOCTS), released their new proposed twenty-year master transportation plan for the region.  Back in June I wrote a post asking our readers to fill out a questionnaire that they had created to help them bring in feedback from the community as to what [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 5:56am EDT
  

• Happy birthday, Fairmount Fair

  —NYCO's Blog

  Number of comments: 4
  

  Onondaga County’s second oldest “mallspace” is 50 years old today. It opened on October 28, 1959. It may also be the only area shopping center that has a band named after it. (That’s actually not so weird: back in the ’60s, live bands did play there occasionally.)

  Fairmount Fair [...]

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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:12am EDT
  by NYCO

• An Endorsement of Steve Keblish for County Legislator.

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  With one week left until election day, I couldn't bite my tongue to see how this District Three election between incumbent Joe Chilelli and challenger Steve Keblish plays out. I'd like to express my support for the Republican in this race, Steve Keblish.
  
  Now time and time again I [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 12:08pm EDT
  

• Why We Will Not Be Able to Recover From This Recession

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  The title says it all.  With all the talk in the media these days about the end of the recession (France, Germany, and Japan have all already officially come out of recession and economists are predicting that growth reports for this past quarter will see the US officially come out [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 7:29am EDT
  

• An observation on bread and circuses

  —NYCO's Blog

  Whatever activities a hierarchy undertakes initially to bond a population to itself… often thereafter becomes de rigueur, so that further bonding activities are at higher cost, with little or no additional benefit to the hierarchy. The appeasement of urban mobs presents the classic illustration of this principle. Any level of [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 9:05am EDT
  by NYCO

• Herkimer Board Plans for New Bond That Will Perpetuate the Status Quo

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  Recently, the Village of Herkimer announced that they are seeking to take out a new five year  bond to fund general Village necessities when their current five year bond expires.  The new bond will be slightly larger than the last one ($275,000 as opposed to $250,000), but because it [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 8:34am EDT
  

• The Road to Copenhagen: International Day of Climate Action Reminder

  —The Herkimer County Progressive

  With the Copenhagen climate conference looming closer and closer, activists the world over are preparing to take to the streets during this Saturday's (October 24th) international day of climate action.  The days events are being coordinated by the 350 organization, headed by author Bill McKibben, and there are currently' [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 4:43am EDT