I live next door to a zombie, and I worry that trouble is coming this summer. The zombie is a single family residence with three bedrooms and about 1,700 square feet of living space. The owner defaulted on the mortgage a couple years ago, and before he moved to Texas, he offered the house up […]
On February 5, I published an article on the bridge explaining how Mayor Rich David quietly and questionably secured a nearly 30% reduction of his downtown property tax bill. Mayor Rich David is now saving thousands in local property taxes because, in 2018, the City Assessor—a position the Mayor oversees and appoints—used a questionable “informal
By Bill Martin It has become far too common: another person denied medical care at the Broome County Jail, and this time with gruesome and deadly consequences. Today’s epitaph is written for Rob Card, a local carpenter, artist, and family man who was sent to the jail for violating probation on a minor drug charge.
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Rough and Tough is not Justice. The Press & Sun Bulletin ignored this letter a year ago and again now, so if a resident of Broome County attends a Public Safety legislative committee meeting, they are not allowed to speak. So what is John Q. Public to do? Everyone can agree that someone who commits
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019 3 PM Press Conference followed by Forum & Teach-In (Enter at rear parking level) Guest Speakers: Ron Deutsch, Fiscal Policy Institute Rev. Peter Cook, NYS Council of Churches Micah Barreiro, Broome Tioga NAACP The community is invited to join us to discuss how we can champion changes in some of the
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Advocates Celebrate Inclusion of Long-Term Care and Support Services The bill is now amended to include long-term care and support services, making it the most comprehensive, progressive, state-level universal healthcare bill in the country Albany, NY—Advocates celebrated the reintroduction of the New York Health Act [A.5248, S.3577] yesterday, calling attention to its highly-anticipated revision to
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Having worked at City Hall for almost eight years prior to the current administration, I remain friends or friendly with dozens of city employees: in the Police and Fire Departments, over at the “Rock” (our endearing term for the DPW facility), in every division of Public Works, and in Planning and Development. Often, I receive
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A research firm has found that the age old split about abortion disappears when you ask the right questions. (And Trump’s Supreme Court doesn’t hurt) the truth is most people don’t want protections for abortion access to go away. Read more here. https://view.publitas.com/perryundem-research-communication/perryundem-report-on-public-opinion-toward-abortion/page/2
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Public Financing of elections gives all of us a chance to run a competitive race for elected offices. The campaign to get there in New York is called Fair Elections. We have a chance this year but we all have to push to get this done. State Senate Speaker, Andrea Stewart Cousins has been a
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Statement of GELF on Governor Cuomo’s Announcement of a Green New Deal Governor Cuomo deserves applause for his recent announcements on the Green New Deal which positions New York as a national leader on climate. (GELF’s GND version here) He has made a significant commitment to expand renewable energy, particularly off shore wind, solar, storage
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