The Shawangunk Journal
By Lisa Carroll
ELLENVILLE – A recent seminar entitled “Downtown Turnaround: Restoring the Promise of our Population Centers” has inspired some interesting thoughts for the local area, Ellenville mayor Jeff Kaplan said.
The event — part of a three-year Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress project, the Urban Action Agenda, designed to better develop policies and […]
The Daily Freeman
A freight train that included tanker cars crossed a bridge over the Rondout Creek in Kingston, N.Y. (Photo by Tony Adamis)
NEWBURGH, N.Y. […]
May 18, 2015
NEWBURGH – Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress, the region’s private, research and think-tank organization, has just issued its latest report, this one on Hudson Valley infrastructure.The report looks at three areas of interest – rail safety, fair share allocation of state transportation resources, and capacity of regional water and sewer systems to handle development. […]
Mark Lungariello, The Journal News
A panel discussion of issues facing Putnam, Rockland and Westchester counties turns into a discussion of how the state handles its finances.
TARRYTOWN – The elected leaders of Putnam, Rockland and Westchester counties say the state mishandled several billion dollars worth of legal settlements that could have been used to update and […]
Mid-Hudson News
TARRYTOWN – Westchester, Rockland and Putnam County Executives Robert Astorino, Edwin Day and MaryEllen Odell addressed Hudson Valley business leaders on ways to improve their counties as well as the greater Hudson Valley. During a panel discussion Monday morning at a Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress breakfast, the county leaders discussed issues including local […]
Danielle Brody, Westchester County Business Journal
County executives from Westchester, Putnam and Rockland agree that state government often impedes progress, pointing to the State Environmental Quality Review Act as a prime example.
Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino said the environmental law needs to be overhauled because the restrictive review delays new projects. SEQRA requires the approving governmental […]