Economy

Life after IBM.

Driving around Newburgh last August, New York Magazine writer Simone Kitchens got the sense that some kind of change was...

A zest for blending wild nature’s unruliness with mankind’s desire for domestication is hardly a new experience for the Hudson...

Should American political and economic policies be directed more toward poor places and less toward poor people? The data shows...

Kingston is becoming a hothouse for the interplay of past and future. How does a small city justifiably proud of...

For more than 40 years New York State has been struggling to figure out how to transmit upstate and Canadian...

Grain production in the Hudson Valley hasn’t been central to local agricultural practice for over a century. That may be...

It was about six years ago, maybe more by now, that assemblyperson Kevin Cahill was shown around the Rhinebeck Middle...

‘Eviction,” derived from the Latin word evictus means being subjugated or conquered by judicial means. It’s a harsh word. Eviction...

Almost everybody, it seems, is, in principle, in favor of “fair share” housing, by which affordable housing choices for disadvantaged...

What if an additional ten million dollars was spent in the immediate region with the focus on grants to demonstration...

In Ulster County, the top fifth of Ulster County filers had more income than the remaining four-fifths. Is that equitable?...

What if you are uncomfortable with offering tax incentives to businesses to locate in your jurisdiction, worrying that the jobs...

It’s ironic. Though discount carrier Norwegian Air is skating on perilously thin financial ice these days, its first full year...

Engineering at SUNY New Paltz has come a long way in the past six years.

Governments at every level routinely offer consequential incentives to induce businesses to locate in the jurisdictions they favor. The premise...

To find a toxic political situation we don’t have to go down to Washington. Kingston is much closer.

Twenty months into its Hudson Valley venture, the Norwegian Air’s business strategy at Stewart Airport appears to be increasingly successful....

What would one say if one had to guess about the direction of Ulster County residential real estate in 2019?...

John Valk remembers when Catsmo established its salmon-smoking business in his town. “They had three employees, and now they’ve got...