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State Aid Continues to Fall Short

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A December 2014 report presented by Cornell University’s Department of City and Regional Planning, the Community and Regional Development Institute, and the Fiscal Policy [...]

Do You Know These Acronyms?

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Everyone knows what a NIMBY is, but did you know these land use acronyms: LULU – Locally unwanted land uses NOPE – Not on planet Earth BANANA – Build [...]

Useful Tools & Information

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The website of the Office of the New York State Comptroller has many extremely useful tools and information for local government and more.  The url is osc.state.ny.us. For [...]

Downside of IDA Deals

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Newsday published an editorial so entitled on September 22 (online on the prior day).  You can read it here.  We responded on September 25 with the following letter to the [...]

When You Are Sworn In

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When a mayor, trustee, officer of the NCVOA or other New York public officer takes his or her oath of office, he or she swears or affirms support of the US and NYS [...]
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