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Attorney Hired To Investigate Suspended Engineer Also Represents Town Attorney And His Law Firm In Financial Litigation
Residents Want Independent Audit On Engineer’s Claims; Attorney Michael Burke, Who Is Also Kevin Conway’s Personal Attorney, Hired to Investigate Siemens’ Billing Controversy
2025 Annual Report Shows BusPatrol Keeps Lion’s Share Of Revenue Collected On Bus Tickets
Data Provided By BusPatrol To New York State Reveals Dramatic Decrease In Rockland County’s Share Of Revenue, And Only Six Successful Court Convictions On Thousands Of Outstanding Citations In 2025
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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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2025 Annual Report Shows BusPatrol Keeps Lion’s Share Of Revenue Collected On Bus Tickets
Data Provided By BusPatrol To New York State Reveals Dramatic Decrease In Rockland County’s Share Of Revenue, And Only Six Successful Court Convictions On Thousands Of Outstanding Citations In 2025
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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Attorney Hired To Investigate Suspended Engineer Also Represents Town Attorney And His Law Firm In Financial Litigation
Residents Want Independent Audit On Engineer’s Claims; Attorney Michael Burke, Who Is Also Kevin Conway’s Personal Attorney, Hired to Investigate Siemens’ Billing Controversy
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