Adam Sichko reports in the April 19, 2011 Business Review that the Albany area’s March unemployment rate dropped to 7.2%, down 0.5 percent from March 2010. You can read the article at http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2011/04/19/albany-areas-unemployment-drops-to-72.html.
G. Scott Thomas reports in the April 25, 2011 Business Review that New York ranks 7th in U.S. employment growth, with an increase of 56,500 nonfarm jobs between March 2011 and the same month this year. You can read the article at http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2011/04/25/nys-ranks-7th-in-us-employment-growth.html.
Thomas also reports that all but three states added jobs between March 2010 and March 2011. The exceptions were Kansas (down 6,000 jobs), New Jersey (down 1,700) and New Mexico (down 100).
Good News - Yes.
Great News - No. Not for those who are still unemployed, and unfortunately, I'm sure we all know someone who is.
A quick review of the 2010 Census Data reveals that:
- East Greenbush's population grew by 913 (5.87%) from 15,560 to 16,473 during the 2000 to 2010 period.
- Rensselaer County's population grew by 6,891 (4.52%) from 152,538 to 159,429 during the same period.
East Greenbush accounted for 13.25% of Rensselaer County's growth over the decade and 47.70% of its growth since 1980!!
Lets see how long before the angry man - ( Jon Dohnson~hic! ) spins this one so far out in left field that even his fellow suffers of reformitis can't make heads or tails out of it !
ReplyDeleteNone of the above is any thanx to neither Cristo nor Taylor who have done absolutely NOTHING for East Grenbush at all!
This comment is not from Don Johnson.
ReplyDeleteI guess this posting falls into the same depth of politcal spin as the last town audit. Leaked and spun as positive - right up until you read the darn thing.
Take a look at the purchasing policy. You can violate it with impunity as long as you did not intend to - WHAT???
Stipends were approved by the Board. Yea right.
I totally get that y'all support the current administration and despise Cristo and Taylor.
Got it - loud and clear. But somewhere between the two dueling blogists must lie reality. You guys say C-T is not but...neither are you.
Anon 4:55 ... Tell me, where exactly is the spin, political or otherwise?
ReplyDeleteSure looks like facts to me. Foreign concepts to many, I know.
Thank you Anon 4:55....I won the little side bet. Just for an ice cream...nothing big. I said within a couple of days...you would bring your crap over here. Please don't think reality lies within the Reformers.
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ReplyDelete455 - despise them - YES , but what many of their supporters fail to ask or realize is exactly why. There's more here than could be written and certaintly it would incite even more vicious remarks -which is completely un-necessary at this point. Suffice it to say that while there are opposing points of view and - the unsubstantiated allegations still run rampant - the Town is running along and regardless of the "internal controls" argument which seems to be the battle cry of a very few people, the Town is running along quite well and moving forward in the midst of another impending recession-( Thank you Big Oil!) Aand with the exception of a very few unorganized leftovers from Camp Cristo - there are only a few ,small complaints from the taxpayers in East Greenbush, which again - are the norm.
ReplyDeleteits impossible to have any form of dialog that would be constructive with these reform fanatics. Why do we even entertain any of their foolish visions here- let them dream over on their 5 or 6 pages that they feel they need to compete with this one , single blog! STBT!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with 954- over there on the "other" page - they only complain and never is there anything positive written- EVER.
ReplyDeleteWhen the other blog is clearly written and monitored by the two losing candidates - I could see why its always so negative, but for any of their very few supporters to try and say anything to the contrary - is simply foolish! They are so disgruntled and angry that it is impossible to have any form of positive or constructive dialog- they only want to argue
Now we have Ray Mooney campaigning again!
ReplyDelete"No. Not for those who are still unemployed, and unfortunately, I'm sure we all know someone who is."
ReplyDeleteI am in training this week. The classroom next to mine was 15-20 middle aged men who lost their job at a factory(cement I think...) and were taking an intro excel class.
I wonder what a 2.5% tax increase will do to these men? I wonder how petty we can be to bicker back and forth wasting time, when we could do so much better.
Maybe this blog can compile a list of resources the town, county, and state provide to people who lose their job?
-Nate Hans
Let me make this as simple as it can be- when cristo walked into Town Hall and literally threw people out of their offices without so much as a days notice- did the Dems cry-whine - and b*tch about it?? No they did not - they worked twice as hard for the next election.
ReplyDeleteThe National Economy is in the basement - and it trickles down to the local municipalities , such as EGB. NO other local municipality is in any better financial shape overall than EGB. Why is that simple concept so hard to grasp?? When will all you reformers start in on the Oil Companies who are once again driving this country into a recession?? You choose to be so narrow sited as to not look past EGB, when the true root cause is the National Economy and the buck keeps getting passed along -(downward) !
Blame~blame~blame is all you can do, Cristo was the very worst Town Board member mostly because he did NOTHING of any consequence for this Town, and quite frankly, what he did do amounted to nothing but controversy , which he later tried-(in vain) to blame on McCabe and the Dems!
Cristo's hiring practices were typical of a power hungry , want-to-be, politician. He still to this day, has no clue what he's doing. He tries in vain to use big words and phrases to baffle the electorate into thinking he has a clue! PUHLEEZ!~
So EG's problems are the national economy and Mike Cristo? Who's fingerprints are on the EG interfund borrowing year after year, with no spending controls?
ReplyDeleteMany local projects were put on hold when the national economy tanked. So, some of EG's problems are the national economy. Some plans are now being dusted off in anticipation of a recovery.
ReplyDeleteFingerprints are many, not just McCabe's, but Cristo, Danaher, Matters, Kennedy. If they tell you different, they weren't doing their job.
Nate,
ReplyDeleteHere's some links that may help:
Rensselaer County
"One-Stop Employment Center"
http://www.rensco.com/employment.asp
NYS Labor Department
"Looking For a Job"
http://www.labor.ny.gov/lookingforajob.shtm
NYS Civil Service
"Employment Opportunities"
http://www.cs.state.ny.us/jobseeker/public/opportunities.cfm
228 - saw only what you wanted to see - huh?? Typical reformer. Try reading again without your rose colored glasses on !
ReplyDeleteBTW: YES- Cristo is clearly responsible for some of what EGB sufferes from financially- he WAS a Town Board member for a few years and voted "YES" on everything you all like to point the finger at and blame the Supe and others for ! Forgot that one too-huh??
You're a classic Timmy!! "It's all your fault 'cause you didn't stop me" excuse. You forget that when OSC pointed out that there was a $2.5 million deficit, the Supe was in the paper and on the web saying that there were no findings of significance in the OSC audit.
ReplyDeleteagain...and what amount of that blame are you attributing to Cristo,Danaher and Matters? Or are you simply content to blame the entire mess on McCabe? Be specific with you answer and explain your " it's all your fault because you didn't stop me" line which must be your attempt at some arrogant deflection of the truth about Cristo and Matters and Danaher- no? You have yet to acknowledge any of this mess attributed directly to the Republican majority of Danaher, Matters and Cristo....oh yes - we havn't forgotten
ReplyDeleteJust saying that McCabe "owned" what you acknowledge as a mess by being out there in public in numerous venues defending it. At least Cristo said no to the golf course fiasco which kept it from happening in the context of the $2.5 million debt.
ReplyDelete"It's all your fault because you didn't stop me" should be obvious to anyone who knows how things work around here. People who call the shots have absolutely no responsibility for what happens. It's a veritable land of magical occurances. We "fall" into debt. Anything illegal happens because "we've always done it that way." And so on....
And the Danaher, Cristo, Matters budget of 2010 was the one which supposedly led Moody's to lift the junk label - though Uncle Fred declared it dead on arrival in its first three months. Go figure.
Where's the Financial Recovery Plan by the way?
It was Joe Bove's ridiculous selling price, not Mike Cristo, that kept the Town from buying Evergreen and why no one will ever purchase that place---ya gotta know Joe----and we all do!!!
ReplyDeleteHey, golf courses work for Colonie and Guilderland. Didn't Bethlehem just get outbid for Normanside CC???
The Cristo, Danaher, Matters, (and Taylor) 2010 Budget did squat for the Town's financial situation. NADA!!!
The McCabe, Mangold, Malone, O'Brien 2011 Budget sets aside $320,000 in debt reserves.
That's positive action, friends.
Well Donnie - the Cristo budget wasn't worth the paper it was written on! You fanatics have zero clue about the ridiculous budget that those three crafted that did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR THE TOWNS FINANCIAL STATUS !! NOTHING!!! That foolish piece of political propaganda was nothing more than Republican political tomfoolery at its very best - reminiscent of the garbage that was peddled years ago by Werking and company. Danaher was smart enough to walk away, Cristo was arrogant enough to try and lull the public into thinking it was the only solution to the Towns financial status- what a line of B-S!! The voters didn't fall for it either !!!
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ReplyDeleteAnon April 27, 2011 9:34 PM and May 1, 2011 9:10 PM
ReplyDeleteDon't waste your time or our time.