Didi has been, and continues to be, a staunch advocate for our communities in Columbia County, and has worked hard to deliver critical resources, funding, support, and advice to the municipalities we represent.
Local governments face many challenges, and during her time in office Didi has worked with us to understand and address the important issues affecting our communities. In these unprecedented times, her leadership, accessibility, and track record are vital assets to Columbia County, and we strongly support her re-election to the New York State Assembly.
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"Increasing vacation rentals seems like a net negative for Hudson when it's in the throes of a severe housing crisis," said Jenny Kutner, a spokesperson for the Poughkeepsie-based progressive activist group For the Many. "It would exacerbate an already bad situation."
Kutner said the proliferation of vacation rentals "makes prices go up for everyone" across the Hudson Valley while also reducing the amount of available homes on the market. The rentals also circumvent hotels, where workers are often paid more and have more protections, she said.
We need real data about how many units are actually available, how many are being held off the market, and how short-term rentals are impacting the supply.
Instead of centering renters' calls for transparency and data, the Morris Council Administration is advancing a proposal to expand the number of days properties can be used as short-term vacation rentals--doubling the current limit.
At a time when:
The priority being moved forward is increasing the profitability of short-term rentals.
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All Non-Essential City of Hudson Departments and Buildings Closed Monday, February 23rd
Due to anticipated heavy snowfall and dangerous road conditions tonight into tomorrow, all non-essential City of Hudson departments and buildings will be closed on Monday, February 23rd.
City of Hudson Parking and Shoveling Rules for the Upcoming Storm
With a significant amount of snow expected tonight into tomorrow, and in recognition of the State of Emergency declared by Governor Hochul that remains in effect until Tuesday, please prepare for plowing tonight and tomorrow, with snow removal to follow (details of removal to be provided once the snow event ends and needs are assessed).
By 11:59 p.m. tonight, where alternate side parking is normally in effect, all cars are to be parked on the ODD side of the street. Tomorrow, Monday the 23rd, all cars subject to alternate side parking should be parked on the EVEN side of the street by 11:59 p.m.
The storm is expected to end at 5:00 p.m. Monday. Per City of Hudson code, Warren Street sidewalks are to be shoveled by 5:00 a.m. Tuesday and sidewalks on all other streets by 5:00 p.m. Tuesday. Also per City code, please shovel snow to the curb and not into the street.
Captain Mansfield was an officer in the Connecticut Line as early as 1776 and, there is some evidence that he served with his sister Margaret’s husband, Benedict Arnold, when Arnold participated in capturing Fort Ticonderoga and later while invading Quebec.
On May 10, 1775, Benedict Arnold, with a commission from Massachusetts, and Ethan Allen, leading the Green Mountain Boys, captured Fort Ticonderoga. Though the fort was not strategically important at the time, when the cannons and ammunition were brought by Henry Knox to a promontory on Boston Harbor, this ended the Siege of Boston by the British. The battle also led to the competition between Allen and Arnold that eventually contributed to Arnold’s betrayal of his nascent country.
Benedict’s wife and Charles’s sister, Margaret Mansfield Arnold, died shortly after capture of the fort in June 1775.
On January 1, 1777 Mansfield officially enlisted as a captain in Colonel John Lamb's 2nd Continental Artillery Regiment remaining through November 7, 1778. Mansfield would volunteer one final time during the war, serving as an aide-de-camp to Georgia governor George Walton in the fall of 1779 during the Siege of Savannah.
Mansfield, a Hudson Proprietor, was among the first generation of Hudson merchants, co-owning Green & Mansfield, dealers in dry goods. He married Elizabeth Greene and they had three daughters. He died suddenly traveling on the road between Albany and New York City.
One of Samuel and Elizabeth Mansfield’s daughters, Harriet, married prominent Claverack lawyer, John Bay, with whom she had eight children. . . .
Samuel Mansfield Bay, the son of Harriet and John, went on to become Missouri Attorney General from 1839-1845.
Bay defended Dred Scott in the 1847 Scott vs. Emerson case at the Missouri State Circuit Court level. Dred Scott and his wife Harriet sued for their freedom and that of their two children, claiming that because they had lived for four years in the territory of Wisconsin, in which slavery was illegal, they were free. The case went on to the Supreme Court in 1857. Deciding against Scott, the Court’s decision was a blow to the anti-slavery movement in the country. The Court decreed that slavery was legal in United States territories, black people had no right to citizenship, and that the Missouri Compromise, which declared all territory west of the Missouri free from slavery, was unconstitutional.
. . . we're not going to talk about the design tonight, because we don't have a lot of information yet. We've seen your elevations. But I will tell you we have work to do, because there's an awful lot of the mid-1960s DNA still existing. We need to look at it, we need to study it, and we need to understand what does it feel like to be a human being and a family living in that space. How do we make it the best possible experience for them? We cannot simply do what we've done in the past, but look at the paths forward in terms of how we think about investing our time, money, in these people's lives and in our community.
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The motorcycles are under fire. They have been abusing their privileges. They have been speeding along the streets and country roads with too little regard for the safety of others. . . .
The need of regulation is becoming more apparent every day. In a case in the municipal court in New York the other day a police captain appeared as an assistant to the prosecution of a youthful motorcyclist arraigned for running his machine at reckless speed. He said that the motorcyclists are more flagrant violators of the law than the automobile speeders and much more dangerous. . . .
The fascination of the motorcycle appears to make the rider forget the rights of others. As it can be guided between passing vehicles and used in narrow spaces along the roadway by the side of automobiles, street cars, and wagons, it becomes an added menace to the pedestrians. The reports of accidents in which the cyclist is killed because of inability to stop his machine in time to avert collisions increase in number. It is evident that carelessness and recklessness have elements of danger to the rider himself.
It is a desirable thing to secure some regulation of the motorcycles. They appear to be practical and useful machines for pleasure and business. But it also brings danger to large numbers of other people who have other equal rights in pleasure and life. . . .
