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Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie. Throw open the doors! Let in the fresh air! It’s “sunshine week” in Albany. Well, maybe ...

The little engine that saved the railroad? (Photo: Phyllis McCabe) With apologies to Johnny Cash's “Folsom Prison Blues,” did Ulster ...

Shelly Silver feels the love at a school rally in New York City. (State Assembly photo) Pundits are agog over ...

The columnist Reynolds. “Comptroller Expenses Scrutinized.” That was the lead headline in last Sunday’s Daily Echo. As we used to ...

The columnist Reynolds. Just when we thought the campaign for Assembly between New Paltz Town Supervisor Susan Zimet and incumbent ...

Susan Zimet. (Photo: Phyllis McCabe) There’s already much hand-wringing, finger-pointing and abject denials in the wake of Susan Zimet’s nominating ...

The columnist Reynolds. Ulster’s county comptroller says his authority to audit the finances of any department is, as per the ...

Elliott Auerbach. (Photo by Phyllis McCabe) When he’s in a nostalgic mood, recently re-elected County Comptroller Elliott Auerbach likes to ...

The columnist Reynolds. Heading into Election Day, Democrats were pretty sure of taking the majority in the 23-member Ulster County ...

Bernice Cosey Pulley of Greenfield Park talks with Assemblyman Kevin Cahill at Saturday’s Sojourner Truth statue unveiling. She carried a ...

Hugh Reynolds. (Photo: Dan Barton) Ulster County’s summerlong sales-tax controversy between County Executive Mike Hein and Assemblyman Kevin Cahill has made ...

Hugh Reynolds. And then there was Linda McDonough, last-minute volunteer on the Republican ticket for county comptroller for the suddenly ...

James Quigley III. (Photo by Dan Barton) Barely six weeks after being nominated by Republicans, Town of Ulster Supervisor James ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo. (Photo by Phyllis McCabe) Sometimes it’s not the message but the messenger. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s gun-control law, passed ...

James Quigley III. (Photo by Dan Barton) Campaign 2013 has produced two potentially interesting Ulster County rematches. After a five-year ...

James Quigley III. In a surprise development, Town of Ulster Supervisor Jim Quigley has been nominated as the Republican candidate ...

Hugh Reynolds. In the normal course of events, Ulster’s county exec can afford to ignore the occasional critiques on his ...

Hugh Reynolds. My first Kingston Uptown Business Association meeting last week in at least 20 years gave me the distinct ...

Art Richter. (Photo by Carrie Jones Ross) Art Richter deadpans that at the age of 85, he is not buying ...

Hugh Reynolds. Riding the surge of a 61 percent election-night plurality in Ulster County voting, Democratic state Senate candidate Cecilia ...