COLUMN • View from Fly Creek Doing The Numbers On Universal Basic Income By ADRIAN KUZMINSKI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com As the economic insecurity of a large segment of the country continues without relief (debts, taxes, low wages, health costs, education costs, etc.), some big new ideas (like the Green New Deal) are getting attention. In my last column, I examined one of these big new ideas: the proposal for a universal basic income (UBI) put forth by presidential candidate…
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Please, County Reps And Trustees: Get Chief Covert Help He Needs How often do any of us, over the course of our lifetimes, get the opportunity to save another human life? But the Otsego County Board of Representatives and Cooperstown Village Board have been presented with that opportunity in the case of Mike Covert, 58. Covert, a 25-year county employee (mostly as a deputy sheriff) and village police chief since 2013, has suffered the health travails of a modern-day…
INTERVIEW WITH DR. GERALD BENJAMIN WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH UPSTATE? It all began with a technological breakthrough – in Syracuse. Air conditioning. Air conditioning used to be very expensive. Installation as well as maintenance were something not everyone could afford. However today, according to Coolest Gadgets the best AC units won’t break the bank anymore. Its development by General Electric in that central New York city opened the way for the industrial development of the South and Southwest, and the…
From Superbowl To Heartwalk, SPCA Accelerates Fundraising HARTWICK SEMINARY – After passing the halfway mark to its $2 million fundraising goal, the Susquehanna SPCA has filled February with events, from a Superbowl benefit to a volunteer orientation.…
Posting Too-Complicated Bills Serving No Purpose To The Editor: My hospital bill from a visit of six months ago just arrived. The bill says clinic visit $32 (for walking in the door?), laboratory $31.85, then it says contractual adjustment: +$55.46. Then says insurance payment Medicare -$93.54, then it says: Sequestration write-off: -$ 1.91. That was just to use the room!! Then the next line is the doctor’s fee … on and on it goes. How am I going to understand…
Community Bank Acquires Kinderhook Bank For $93M Deal Signals Expansion In Capital District Community Bank System of Dewitt, which operates two dozen branches in the Otsego County area, announced yesterday it is buying Kinderhook Bank Corp. for $93.4 million in cash to “expand its presence” in the Capital District. Kinderhook Bank, was founded in 1853, brings Community Bank 11 branches across the counties of Albany (3), Columbia (5), Fulton (1), Montgomery (2) and Rensselaer (1). It has total assets of…
ON AVERAGE, ALMOST $6K GARNERED Airbnb Generates $1.8M For Otsego County Hosts In Otsego County there are now approximately 310 Airbnb hosts, and each earned about $5,900 in supplementary income in 2018, the leading community-driven hospitality company announced today. That would amount to $1.8 million in revenues to people who open their homes to guests through the Airbnb system.…
Editorial for November 23, 2018 CONTRIBUTE NOW, DOUBLE YOUR INVESTMENT Let’s Give Back To Ensure SPCA Keeps Serving Us When the Susquehanna SPCA learned last February it had won $500,000 from Governor Cuomo’s Companion Animal Capital Fund, Executive Director Stacie Haynes sought bids to upgrade the aging shelter in Hartwick Seminary. To a person, all of the prospective contractors said: Don’t spend a half-million on this building, Haynes related the other day in an interview leading up to the announcement…
$2 MILLION FUND DRIVE LAUNCHED CAMPAIGN GOAL: BUILD NEW SPCA (reprinted from this week’s Hometown Oneonta, Freeman’s Journal) By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com HARTWICK SEMINARY – When Stacie Haynes first arrived at the Susquehanna SPCA, the new executive director walked through the building and made a list of what needed work. Among the issues she found were a leaky roof and a mold-covered poster in what would become the surgery room. According to Clean Pro Gutter Cleaning Boston,…
Editorial for October 5, 2018 Isn’t It Time For City To Act, Or Get Out Of The Way? You know, of course: Creativity is making something out of nothing. Or, better, recognizing potential where nobody else does. The scoop in last week’s paper is a case in point: A group calling itself The Market Street Alliance is proposing a distillery in the former Oneonta Ford building, that dreary, long-empty, black-painted hulk at the foot of Chestnut Street, across from Foothills.…
