Rental unit occupancy rates are down as are rents as fewer are able to afford the high cost of local residency. Brewster has so many apartments for rent they don't know what to do and the homeless population is rising across the nation as people are forced out of their homes and apartments for...
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The 2009 PlanPutnam Annual Fund Drive Is Coming To A Close Have you helped keep this newsletter coming? If not, please click here today. Your Support Is What Keeps Us Growing! Good Wednesday Morning, Rumor has it I’ll be running for Supervisor of the Town of Kent in 2011. I heard that the other day –...
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So many of you thought Senator Leibell really did float a bill to outlaw divorce that I spent a good part of the day Saturday fielding questions about the bill and calming several who thought it was legit. I would have preferred the same outrage be directed at the New York State Senate...
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Before we dive into the world around us this morning please do me a favor: Pass a copy of this newsletter on to people you know who do not receive it either by subscription or who do not read it on the website. Let's spread the news around a bit and grow our readership. Then hop...
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“The inequities in our economy are piling up: trillions for war, trillions for Wall Street and tens of billions for the insurance companies. Banks and other corporations are sitting on piles of cash of taxpayer's money while firing workers, cutting pay and denying small businesses money to survive. “People are losing their homes, their jobs,...
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News That Matters is taking a break until after the election. I'm wiped out. Working, putting the three hours each issue into this and trying to get elected to the Town Board... Yikes! Something has to give. I have to eat and I have to pay the landlord so he can pay the taxes...
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The Sheriff's candidates went at it again last night at the Carmel/Kent Chamber's candidate's forum at McCarthy's in Kent. They came late, well after the rest of us had given our presentations and were getting ready to leave. In the end I think the best way to go is to have them duel with...
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