tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post620291127692498124..comments2024-03-28T17:55:31.180-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: Another Mayoral InitiativeCarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-35013171664406979072015-01-31T10:26:11.211-05:002015-01-31T10:26:11.211-05:00Yet another example of governance through consent ...Yet another example of governance through consent of the tourist.<br /><br />Might it be that our leaders have squeezed all of the juice from the tourism grape, and each additional tourist added, reduces the rights of the "full time" residents they were elected to serve?<br /> <br />Time to (re)read Ricardo's theory of diminishing returns and incorporate alternative income streams, maybe payroll taxes from industries other than tourism.1Riparianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17248602693560230557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-80637478218320087272015-01-30T12:35:36.256-05:002015-01-30T12:35:36.256-05:00To hit people's pocketbooks in such a gratuito...To hit people's pocketbooks in such a gratuitous way, watch out that residents don't suddenly take an interest in City Hall. (Ya never know.)<br /><br />I remember the mayor exaggerating the new "strategic alliance" between Columbia Memorial Hospital and Albany Med last August. He actually tried to graft an issue which only concerns the more efficient sharing of medical documents onto his already draconian parking proposal. <br /><br />So next you'll need a permit to park in front of your home? And this is a Republican measure?!unheimlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204285837938988668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-47510213464408251362015-01-30T12:12:09.240-05:002015-01-30T12:12:09.240-05:00A City-wide parking permit rule? Well, that will ...A City-wide parking permit rule? Well, that will do wonders for tourism, won't it?<br /><br />Sometimes I get the impression that Hallenbeck thinks of Hudson as a two-square-mile prison, where we are the inmates and he the warden, monitoring our every movement.LDoublehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06600897555342988383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-90719376510247853532015-01-30T11:37:31.029-05:002015-01-30T11:37:31.029-05:00Even more layers of bureaucracy and money for thei...Even more layers of bureaucracy and money for their coffers.<br /><br />Why is a whole city held hostage to a problem the CMH needs to deal with ?Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548912912359709568noreply@blogger.com