HUDSON — Several programs held at the Hudson Youth Center have been cut due to a loss of funding for the Department of Youth, leading to concern and confusion from some Hudson parents.
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New York school districts will be overcharged at least $100 million in 2012 by the Boards of Cooperative Educational Services, according to a Gannett News Service investigation by David McKay Wilson. Gannett reports BOCES (BOE-sees) overcharged school districts $473 million from 2007 to 2011. These costs come from the state’s 37 BOCES services that support school districts’ management or central office functions. State Education Commissioner John King said the overcharges should be viewed as an “accounting practice” necessary to run the system. Critics call BOCES’ actions evidence that taxpayers are getting taken, year after year after year. Gannett cited a report by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli that said BOCES routinely overbilled school districts. Read the full Gannett story at stargazette.com.
Kyle Adams reports in The Daily Mail the members of the Local Development Corporation for the Village of Catskill board of directors voted Tues., Oct. 2, not to dissolve the five-year old organization. Instead, it will prioritize the collection of nearly $250,000 in defaulted loans to local businesses. The group also intends to resolve its regular meeting schedule and appoint officers. A search will be conducted for a consultant to contract as executive director. Founded in 2007, the organization provides microenterprise and job creation loans to assist individuals start, or expand a business. Read the full story in The Daily Mail.
William J. Kemble reports in the Daily Freeman a 2013 budget proposal put together by Catskill Town Supervisor Joseph Leggio would increase spending, but at the same time cut the town tax levy by two percent. Leggio said he is not certain whether the Town Board will add to the proposed spending plan, which totals nearly seven million. Leggio’s budget includes a one percent cut to the town Highway Department, suggesting the possibility of a reduction in personnel. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.
ALBANY — The unfunded mandate has been a thorn in the side of many municipalities for years, and a buzzword for almost every political campaign in New York state, but the solutions to these problems h
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Residents in Columbia and Greene counties have different views of the communities they live in, but similar viewpoints on the need for more development, according to an in-depth poll conducted by the
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A new report from the Congressional Research Service finds that “changes over the past 65 years in the top marginal tax rate and the top capital gains tax rate do not appear correlated with economic growth.”
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Topics Include Local Estimates on Income, Poverty, Health Insurance and More The U.S. Census Bureau today released findings from the 2011 American Community Survey. The survey provides a wide range of important statistics about our nation’s people, housing and economy for all communities in the country. The results are used …
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The pace of creation of jobs in the private sector during the current administration is now greater than the pace in either of President George W. Bush’s terms in office.
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Economists said the Federal Reserve’s plan to buy mortgage-backed securities and other assets was a sign of its confidence in a nascent housing recovery.
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