Earlier this fall the State’s ten Regional Economic Development Councils proposed a total of 260 Priority Projects seeking roughly $340 million of State economic and community development funds. This substantial effort represents New York’s vanguard of job creation, economic growth […]

(Photo courtesy of www.worldlandscapearchitect.com) Late in August, Republican Senator Mark J. Grisanti of Western New York and Long Island Democratic Assemblyman Robert Sweeney proposed the State’s largest ever Bond Act.   The two legislators chair their house’s respective Environmental Conservation committees, […]

(Photo courtesy of www.smartgrowthamerica.org) Written by: Nadine Lemmon, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, www.tstc.org The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) recently issued a draft plan of transportation projects it will be tackling from 2014-2017. This draft Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) will […]

  Travelers traversing the state on Amtrak look forward to pulling into Utica’s gorgeous gateway, its Union Station. While it amply serves the needs of travelers today, Utica Union Station also inspires nostalgia about the railroad heyday. It exudes the […]

New York’s municipalities are no strangers to fiscal stress. The cost of infrastructure and services, pension funds and other mandates are piling up on local governments, resulting in bulging tax burdens, high tax rates and levies, degraded infrastructure and slashed […]

New York State is known for one city. But it has 61 others, ranging from the diminutive village-sized to former industrial powerhouses. Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, Syracuse and Albany are considered mid-sized cities, but 52 of New York’s cities are small […]