The fact that the village of Falconer received a NY Forward grant in the first place is proof that hard work does, indeed pay off. Those who have paid attention over the past couple of years know Falconer officials have done more than simply throw some paperwork in state officials’ ...
Twice in recent weeks we’ve reported that local businesses are looking at possible expansion. The announcement that Jamestown had received money from the EPA to prepare several brownfields for future development included the nugget that three high priority sites - including the former Crawford Furniture site - were the subject of expansion talks by neighboring businesses. Then, county officials said during a recent IDA meeting that there has been interest in the Mason Industrial Park, specifically mentioning expansion from local manufacturers in spaces that include the former Bush ...
New York’s power grid spent last week in the spotlight as a four-day heat wave brought requests to moderate power usage - including requests by Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s for air conditioners to be set to 78 degrees and for as many electric devices as possible to be used during cooler evening hours. Last week certainly shows the mess that New York’s elected officials and the administrators they have put in charge of day-to-day have made of the state’s power grid. While New York is hardly alone struggling to provide enough electricity for its ...
If you listen to political debate from the state capitol, you’d think the only way to have data centers in New York state is to power them with a power grid that is already struggling under increasing electric loads. How can the state power data centers when it’s struggling to power its transition to an all-electric power grid without data centers? Accepting that assumption as true is one of the biggest arguments against data centers in New York state. But, as we learned recently from Cummins Engine, New York residents are being fed a half-truth. Texas is building data centers ...
With more than $30 million in potential Downtown Revitalization Initiative project applications listed, there will be a series of frank talks as city officials decide which projects get a slice of the city’s $10 million DRI pie. It is obvious that not all projects listed in the city’s DRI application to the state will receive funding. The question is which projects are funded and how much they will receive. A proposal to use $400,000 to stabilize the Arcade Building will surely result in lengthy discussions. On one hand, the Arcade Building is a throwback to Jamestown’s ...
Today, we Americans celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Our focus is what the document meant — creation of a new nation, a new set of ideals to form a more perfect union. But what the document itself says about the Founders and about what they intended for us is just as important, in many ways. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness …” That single sentence is familiar to ...
