Lift the Fracking Moratorium
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Unemployment in New York City is up
September 15, 2011, 5:12 pm City Unemployment Rate Ticks Up to 8.7% By PATRICK MCGEEHAN The two-week strike by unionized employees of Verizon offset all of the hiring that occurred last month in New York City and pushed the city’s unemployment rate up slightly, according to figures released Thursday by the State Department of Labor. [...]
Tax Freedom day gets pushed back again.
May 03, 2013 09:40:29AM MDT N.Y.’s Tax Freedom Day comes later than most Written by Cara Matthews Tax Freedom Day, which marks when taxpayers have earned enough to pay federal, state and local taxes for the year, was April 18 nationally but won’t arrive until Monday in New York, the second-to-last state. New York is [...]
Fracking exposed
Dear New York Taxpayer, This past week I was given a unique opportunity to do something few of us have had the chance to do. I was invited to go on a tour of a natural gas Rig in Towanda, Pennsylvania. This wasn’t just any rig tour; it was one of Chesapeake Energy’s Fracking rigs. [...]
Fracking transforms the West
It is finally being noticed locally that Fracking if allowed here will change things here. How fracking transforms fortunes, land By BRENNAN LINSLEY Associated Press RIFLE, Colo. (AP) – Three hours west of Denver, across the Continental Divide, the Rocky Mountains begin the long transition into high desert plateaus. This sparsely-populated land is dotted with [...]
Taxed to last place
Taxed to last place Last Updated: 4:05 AM, April 4, 2013 Posted: 11:10 PM, April 3, 2013 Few New Yorkers will be surprised that a recent Tax Foundation study ranks New York with the highest state and local tax burden (“A Fargo State of Mind,” Editorial, March 30). The news is not good for job [...]
