Parker Backlash Continues: Sullivan lawmakers review policy on whistle blowers
midhudsonnews.com
"The policy follows complaints about Health and Family Services Commissioner Randy Parker, who was placed on administrative leave last month following allegations of mismanagement regarding applications for the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP). Parker countered with his on complaints."
Getting Hosed On Entitled Benefits: Audit reveals problems with Volunteer Firefighters' Benefit Program
timesunion.com.
"Under state municipal law, volunteer firefighters that perform a certain amount of duties accumulate credits each year for which they earn pension-like benefits. From Jan. 1, 2012 through March 31, 2014, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli audited 10 fire districts and/or municipalities across New York, and found nine were not properly awarding the service credits to volunteer firefighters, or failed to properly oversee their programs."
Iowa continues to be the wrong first battle for Republicans, particularly for well-established centrist candidates. It really should be a primary in a battleground state like Florida, where mix in population represents a better field to frame and build the traditional GOP centrist platform that gets Republicans elected to the White House.
Just Following Orders In Monticello: Sullivan official didn't benefit from courthouse demolition
recordonline.com
"Greenwald argued that the board knew of the demolition plans, and there was no conspiracy or effort to make a deal in secret."
Renewable Energy in Rebuilding Tourism In Mamakating: New Homowack plans could help the town find a new future
gunkjournalcom
"Grant writer and special projects manager Kerron Barnes informed the board at its meeting on February 3 that the US Department of Agriculture has initiated a program called Rural Energy for America, designed to assist in the research and development of potential renewable energy sites in rural areas. The board voted to offer its support to the Beautiful Earth Group in the preparation of a grant application for $100,000 to be submitted to the USDA."
Monticello Native & Former Court of Appeals Chief Judge Says State Can Do Better: How New York can help its foster children succeed
newsday.com
"Having intervened to 'protect' children by placing them in foster care, New York should also invest in their futures by clearing and supporting their paths to college graduation and all of the opportunity that comes with it. Full tuition waivers at SUNY at CUNY colleges and universities, access to housing during semester breaks, and specially trained campus advisers to help them navigate college life, would change today's grim picture and provide opportunity for these young people."
Is It Time To Buy Or Sell Home: Casino effects In Sullivan County on the residential market
catskillcountryrealestate.com
"Casino completion is too far away and the real estate market has no clear direction or support for the idea that casino gaming will lure more second home owners to the area. I do predict, however, a modest gain in the local housing market based on the need for homes on the lower end of the pricing spectrum."
Intrigue Surrounds Recluse Friend Of Assemblywoman Gunther: Mysterious man in cowboy garb aas $800K coming to him, but can't be found
dnainfo.com
"Russell Eliot Reif, a former Upper West Side resident, has a big payday coming to him courtesy of New York state - but his lawyer, Jack Ingber, has been unable to track him down despite canvassing three upstate towns and a former Manhattan address. In fact the only person who seems to have some contact with Reif is a state assemblywoman from Monticello who speaks to him sporadically via cell phone, but she apparently doesn't know where he is either."
"It's the first signs that this 17,000 acre site will soon be transformed in to the Montreign Resort Casino at Adelaar. "It's very exciting eventually it's just going to hit us that this is a very, very, very big thing you know for the Mid Hudson region and for Sullivan County," said Thompson supervisor Bill Rieber." Read More - twcnews.com
