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Court Tosses Orange County IDA’s Suit Filed To Reinstate Amazon’s $80 Million Benefit Package
Orange County Judge Rejects Claim That State-Appointed Monitor’s Veto Was Untimely & Unlawful
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Court Tosses Orange County IDA’s Suit Filed To Reinstate Amazon’s $80 Million Benefit Package
Orange County Judge Rejects Claim That State-Appointed Monitor’s Veto Was Untimely & Unlawful
RCBJ Wins FOIL Case Against Rockland Green: Public Authority Ordered To Produce Documents, Pay Attorney’s Fees
RCBJ Wins FOIL Case Against Rockland Green: Public Authority Ordered To Produce Documents, Pay Attorney’s Fees; Judge Invokes Importance of First Amendment & New York’s FOIL Law in Eloquent Ruling
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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
What's The Big Deal?
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
Technology
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 […]
Lawsuit Charges Government Surveillance Of Vehicles By License Plate Readers Violates Personal Privacy
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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Enforcement of Swimwear Code Is Making an Unpleasant Splash At Clarkstown’s Pool
Mary Wallace Suspended For Trying to Defend Girls In Pool, Clarkstown’s Superintendent of Parks & Rec Says Lifeguards Just Doing Their Job
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