I too was a drop in the river of 350,000 climate change marchers in Manhattan a few weeks ago. I was glad to be there amidst the largest climate change event ever. The buzz that day reminded me of the […]
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Posts Categorized: State
Let Them in. Bring Them Here.
(Photo courtesy of Syracuse.com: Supporters of the plan to house immigrant children on the campus of the former Maria Regina College) If it were only a case of 50,000 destitute children interned for trying to enter the United States, we would […]
continue readingSolarCity: a huge boon, bonanza for Buffalo
Solar City will open the Western Hemisphere’s largest solar panel manufacturing operation in South Buffalo on the site of a former steel plant, and is poised to bring with it more jobs (3,000 possible) than the steel plant ever had, […]
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Over-the-Top Highway
It took sixteen seconds in Governor Cuomo’s 2014 State of the State address to re-awaken a dormant relic of an idea for New York’s North Country. Said Cuomo in January: “In the North Country, the proposed Route 98 could reduce […]
continue readingU.S. News and World Report features Rust Belt Revival
U.S. News and World Report today published An Urban Revival in the Rust Belt, and while the article focused nicely on Buffalo, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh, the progress made in Detroit, Rochester, Syracuse, and other so-called Rust Belt cities could have […]
continue reading“Behold New Lebanon” aims to breathe life into r…
Residents of the beleaguered burg of New Lebanon, New York have conjured up a creative initiative for building interest in the town’s rural life. Read about it in the New York Times […]
continue readingConstruction of Rentals is Taking Off
A NY Times article from last week highlights the construction boom of apartment buildings, while the number of single-family home starts remain low. Read more here. […]
continue readingUtica, NY: A New Life for Refugees, and the City They Adopte…
An interesting article in the NY Times puts a spotlight on Utica, NY as a “refugee magnet” with immigrants transforming this once-fading industrial town. According to Shelly Callahan, executive director of the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees, this population […]
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Dear Albany, I Am Not Stupid
Recently, the City of Buffalo hosted the Congress for New Urbanism, a gathering of 1,300 architects, developers and planners from across the U.S. It was quite a coup to get the CNU; it usually sets down in growing places. Buffalo […]
continue readingThe “end” of New York City?
A New York City-based blog has emerged that laments the transformation of a NYC filled with small, independent businesses to one of chains, franchises, and too much gleam and gentrification. Check out the blog: Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York […]
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