UU Partner Perspective: Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council
Enthusiasm is running high as the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council works to prepare its strategic plan.
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UU Partner Perspective: Western New York’s View of the Regional Economic Development Council’s
UU Partner Perspective is the first post in a new series of blog posts written by the UU regional executive partners. This first piece is written by Andrew Rudnick, Co-Founder of Unshackle Upstate and President and CEO of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership.
After months of postponements and with much fanfare, Governor Cuomo announced the launch [...]
New Yorkers: If you want change, you’ve got to vote on Nov. 2
If you want to see changes in New York state government, you have to take action. You have to vote on Nov. 2, Judgment Day for the New York State Legislature.
As Judgment Day Approaches, Get Informed on the Issues
Between now and Nov. 2, you’ll be bombarded with information on the candidates, each with a story to tell about why he or she should be your choice and why their opponent isn’t even worth consideration. Rather than relying on these commercials, take the time to do some research. See what groups like Unshackle Upstate, NFIB and the Business Council of New York State are saying about the issues and the candidate’s stances on them. Then factor that information into your Judgment Day decision on Nov. 2.
Coming Monday: Scorecards on all 212 NYS Legislators
On Monday, Unshackle Upstate will issue the results of its 2010 Legislative Scorecards, ranking all 212 New York state legislators according to their actions on key economic and taxpayer issues.
Call-to-Action: Albany wants your $$$ to pay for its overspending
A proposal to defer 50 percent of business tax incentives for three years remains under active discussion by the Governor and legislative leaders this week. Simply stated, this would amount to little more than the government borrowing from NY businesses (you!) to pay for excessive spending that lawmakers are unwilling to trim.
If you currently benefit [...]
Jay Gallagher: Unshackle Upstate loses a friend
When Unshackle Upstate launched in March 2006, Gannett News Service Bureau Chief, Jay Gallagher, covered our first trip to Albany.
He knew what we were up against.
Jay reported on Albany politics and government for a quarter century, and wrote a weekly column on state government since the late 1980s. He passed away Monday night, after a nearly year-long [...]
Albany Needs to Make the Right Cuts
There is no question that Governor Paterson and members of the Legislature are confronting very difficult decisions in trying to put together a budget that doesn’t further burden New Yorkers. But the pain of these decisions is largely self-inflicted and that is the problem.
For years, and across party lines, leaders have done their best to [...]
Unions and the Great Pay Debate
When talking about wages and benefits, the leadership of New York’s public employees union just misses the point.
Upstate MUST be aggressive in 2010!
Each and every spring we seem to do a lot of communicating with our members about how bad Albany is. Just a few years back, it was the Brennan Center’s report that New York State had the most dysfunctional government in the nation. Year-in and year-out around that time, late budgets became the norm, annually [...]