Tag: mike hein

Photo illustration by Joseph P. Morgan. It was like a presidential news conference in the waning days of the Nixon ...

Hugh Reynolds. County Executive Mike Hein last week announced plans for a statewide tour this summer to explain why things are ...

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

Remember the old post office? Am I the only one who sees a parallel between County Executive Hein’s rush to ...

CMRR volunteers Al Schoessow and Alex Sorenson work on the line by Kingston Plaza. (Photo by Phyllis McCabe) The city’s ...

Jeremy Blaber. (Photo by Dan Barton) As with most operations, hired help comes and goes through government. Some hang in ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo. (Photo by Phyllis McCabe) Amid much back-slapping and chest-thumping, state lawmakers passed a third consecutive “on-time budget” ...

Hugh Reynolds. Few other than political wonks and the media pay much attention to the annual pronouncements on the state ...

County Exec Mike Hein. (Photo by Dan Barton) In one of the more obscure footnotes to a routine January meeting ...

Hugh Reynolds. It may go down as a brief footnote in county history, if it's remembered at all, but last ...

Hugh Reynolds. Former county GOP chairman Mario Catalano hit the nail on the head when he admonished Republican legislators, calling ...

Mike Hein. (Photo by Dan Barton) The Ulster County Legislature approved a budget, flow control and a phased-in takeover of ...

Pity Dave O’Halloran, southern Ulster resort operator and the county Industrial Development Agency (IDA) board chairman dealt the unhappy hand of ...

It happens only every generation or so, that stunning upset they talk about for years and years. Recall Maurice Hinchey ...

Faye Clune, Karen Binder’s mother, Ellen DiFalco, her sister, and County Executive Mike Hein at Tuesday’s dedication ceremony. Beloved longtime ...

(Photo by Dan Barton) Ulster County executive Mike Hein seems to cover a lot of bases in his proposed county ...

Photo of Hugh Reynolds by Phyllis McCabe. It seems the Ulster County Industrial Development Agency is finally getting hard-nosed about ...

Delegates to the Third Judicial District nominating convention will convene at 1 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21 at the Albany ...

Local officials below the county level aren’t saying much publicly about the trend-setting — some say nickel-and-diming — union contract ...

Kingston’s share of payments into the Safety Net welfare program is on track to top $2 million. But unlike last ...