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Amid Political Theater, Clarkstown Residents Call for Planning Boards To Deny Warehouse Application
Amid Political Theater, Clarkstown Residents Call for Planning Boards To Deny Warehouse Application; More than 150 Residents Turned Out To Protest Vanta’s Application to Build Three Warehouses on 41 Acres of Wooded Land in Congers
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Amid Political Theater, Clarkstown Residents Call for Planning Boards To Deny Warehouse Application
Amid Political Theater, Clarkstown Residents Call for Planning Boards To Deny Warehouse Application; More than 150 Residents Turned Out To Protest Vanta’s Application to Build Three Warehouses on 41 Acres of Wooded Land in Congers
Ethics Complaint Charges Clarkstown’s Paid Facebook Ads Violate The Law
RCBJ-Audible (Listen For Free) Complaint Says Use Of Public Funds To Benefit Incumbents, Private Businesses, And Influence Legislation Is Illegal ANALYSIS In a Facebook post earlier this year Councilman Bob Axelrod stands in front of two flags, the Town of Clarkstown’s and the American flag. The post says: “Clarkstown Ward 4 Councilman Bob Axelrod is […]
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Upstate Update: Ulster County & Bard College Add 17 Air Quality Monitors; Another Grossinger’s Redevelopment Plan; Ulster County Seeks To Implement A Resident Income Tax Surcharge
Ulster County & Bard College Partner To Add Seventeen Air Quality Monitoring Stations In Ulster County; Grossinger’s Redevelopment Plan; Ulster Plans Tax Surcharge On High Earners
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What’s The Big Deal? PDI Buys Tappan Industrial For $79 Million; Gibbs Court School To Become Condos; Monsey Center Project Sells For $10 Million; Spring Valley Strip Center Nets $2.9 Million
What’s The Big Deal? PDI Buys Tappan Industrial For $79 Million; Gibbs Court School To Become Condos; Monsey Center Project Sells For $10 Million; Spring Valley Strip Center Nets $2.9 Million
What’s The Big Deal? Four Congers Development Parcels Sell For $6 Million; Kaser Acreage Sold For $17.5 Million; Mixed-Use Residential/Commercial Planned Including Urgent Care & Kosher Grocer; Spring Valley Industrial Nets $2.7 million
Large Mixed-Use Development in Kaser Financed With $55 million; Buildable Parcels Sold on Landmark Drive In Congers; Spring Valley Industrial Sells for $2.7 Million
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Governor Hochul Signs Executive Order Imposing One-Year Moratorium On Large Data Centers
RCBJ-Audible (Listen For Free) Governor’s Executive Order Applies to Data Centers Above 50 Megawatts and Exempts Manufacturing, Research, Education, Health Care ANALYSIS Governor Kathy Hochul today signed an Executive Order implementing a one-year, statewide moratorium on the construction of new large-scale data centers. The order seeks to limit the impact of energy use on the […]
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Pole-Mounted Automatic License Plate Readers, Mobile Surveillance Units, And Roving AI Cameras On School Buses Record Vehicle Data Shared By Law Enforcement Agencies
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Amid Political Theater, Clarkstown Residents Call for Planning Boards To Deny Warehouse Application
Amid Political Theater, Clarkstown Residents Call for Planning Boards To Deny Warehouse Application; More than 150 Residents Turned Out To Protest Vanta’s Application to Build Three Warehouses on 41 Acres of Wooded Land in Congers
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