Plenty of money circulating in the 19th congressional district ahead of 2018 race, but not from outside; making sense of...
Read moreAll marching orders for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s $10 million Kingston grant announcement last week came from headquarters in Albany. And...
Read moreLast week’s primary results indicate that at least five of 23 incumbent Ulster County legislators won’t be back come next...
Read moreAs the populations of Ulster County towns go, Marbletown, with 5,607 souls, is a bit on the low side of...
Read moreFaso is a smooth operator. This doesn’t necessarily mean slippery or evasive, as some critics contended, though he was that...
Read moreMany of the about 500 attendees at last week’s meet-the-Democratic-congressional-candidates night at Kingston’s Old Dutch Church got their first look...
Read morePrediction: Half of the eight Democratic candidates will drop out by the end of the year.
Read moreIt’s probably not a good thing when a freshman congressman gets huge headlines after announcing his first town hall meeting...
Read moreI won’t get into the back-and-forth between Hein and Cahill over who did more (or less) to bring the feuding...
Read moreAn incident at a local gym was revealing of this political moment. Confronting a man who declined to vacate a...
Read moreAccording to a recent survey, 57 percent of the 56,000 registered voters in the 19th congressional district who are not...
Read moreFewer than two dozen property owners had leverage over more than 8,000 others in the city. Those ratios need to...
Read moreAs new candidates enter the already crowded field for the Democratic congressional nomination next year, the odds for bottom-feeders can...
Read moreFor better or worse, people like their government close, even if it costs more. Will the county’s application pass final...
Read moreTwo years ago, Ulster County executive Mike Hein delayed a decision on whether to run for Congress until almost the...
Read moreThe good news for Ulster County government is that the current squabble over the location of a fire training facility...
Read moreAn amendment to the Republican health care touted by U.S. Rep John Faso as saving taxpayers through Medicaid reforms could...
Read moreAs if Ulster County taxpayers doling out $77.8 million a year in county property taxes weren’t enough, County Comptroller Elliott...
Read moreCongressman John Faso knows all the rules. Over a 30-year career, he may have invented some. But he has repeatedly...
Read moreLike the cobra and the mongoose, these guys need each other. Put another way, what fun is politics if there’s...
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