by Evan Lowenstein Empire State Future In America we cherish freedom. We hold it as the highest value. It is the driving force in our Declaration and Constitution. It is what we say defines our country and makes it the best […]
continue readingPosts Categorized: Opinion
Regardless of whose numbers you believe, Buffalo’s vac…
On April 05, The Buffalo News ran a story on the vacancy issues that exist within the urban centers and the suburbs. While the vacancy issue may be the most serious in Western New York, this is a statewide epidemic. […]
continue readingRochester Democrat and Chronicle’s editors exhort loca…
The editors of Rochester’s newspaper this week wrote that local government leaders across the region must more seriously investigate “game changing government consolidation” as a means to reining in rapidly rising tax burdens, deficits, and other major fiscal and economic […]
continue reading“Right-sizing” yields huge reuse possibility
The American Society of Landscape Architects recently reported on a Queens project that has reused tons and tons of concrete to make an area of the borough safer and the planet cooler. Given that the “right sizing” of upstate cities […]
continue readingWhy Build High-Speed Rail in the Northeast?
The Regional Plan Association, an Empire State Future Coalition member, makes the case for investing in high-speed rail in New York State and throughout the Northeast in their video here. While Amtrak does offer Acela service between Washington, D.C. […]
continue readingHigh speed rail creates upstate jobs bonanza?
High speed rail is moving down the tracks towards reality across the country. Surely, a high speed rail network will bring regions closer together–but will it spawn jobs and boost our economy? There’s some strong evidence that in Rochester, it […]
continue readingRetire TO Rochester?
Spending the golden years in cities like Cleveland, Rochester, Buffalo, or Syracuse might just be wise rather than wacky. A blogger on Reuters’ Prism Money blog points out why: I could take my Washington-Baltimore corridor housing money (median home value, […]
continue readingGovernor Cuomo Reauthorizes Executive Order on Climate Chang…
by David Hogenkamp, Program Assistant, Empire State Future The continuation of Executive Order 24 joins Executive Order 20 on Smart Growth as an early indication that Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration realizes the connection between the environment, the built environment, and […]
continue readingGovernor Cuomo Renews Smart Growth Cabinet
Happy New Year to all! Good news out of Albany as Governor Cuomo has continued the December 2007 Executive Order on Smart Growth. This Executive Order established the Smart Growth Cabinet. Empire State Future believes that the Cabinet will play […]
continue readingGrow Food, Grow New York’s Economy
by David Haight, American Farmland Trust Think back to the first days of New York’s history. Who were some of the state’s original business people? Farmers. If you think about it, trade in food has historically been the foundation of […]
continue reading
Current Poll
Loading ...