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State employees calling on legislators to reject Cuomo's pension plan
Busloads of state employees represented by PEF are rallying today to call on state legislators reject Governor Cuomo's pension plans.Elections add to local budget strain - Times Herald-Record
Towns across the Hudson Valley will face bigger bills for a barrage of elections in 2012. Villages and school districts face their own elections — and own costs. For towns, some of the additional races — and costs — are unavoidable: It is a ...
HUD awards funds for local homeless programs - Mid-Hudson News
NEW YORK – Homeless programs in the Hudson Valley will benefit with new Housing and Urban Development funding. A total of 14 programs in Columbia, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange and Westchester counties will receive funding, said HUD spokesman Adam Glantz.
Dyson Foundation offers to build park on Poughkeepsie waterfront - YNN Hudson Valley
Headquartered in Millbrook, New York, the Foundation awards grants throughout the six counties of the Mid-Hudson Valley. During the past 10 years, the Dyson Foundation has awarded 289 grants totaling $23.4 million to nonprofit organizations based in ...
School chiefs unite over eval rules - The Journal News | LoHud.com
School superintendents from across the Lower Hudson Valley have banded together with their colleagues on Long Island to push the state to reconsider several costly rules, including those that govern the controversial new system for evaluating teachers.
Legislators want school aid shift - Albany Times Union
"That is good news," said Timothy Kremer, executive director of the New York State School Boards Association. "The idea of performance or competitive grants calling for greater efficiency and academic achievement is certainly an appropriate goal, ...
