Month: November 2018

Election law reforms coming?

/ Ken Kruly

Things are going to be different in Albany when the new legislative session convenes in January. The large Democratic majority in the State Senate will join the overwhelmingly Democratic Assembly and Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo for the very rare occurrence in New York State – one party rule.

There have Republican governors from time-to-time (Dewey, Rockefeller, Wilson, Pataki). The Democrats won control of the Assembly in 1974 and the size of their majority has grown much bigger over the years. Continue reading →

Economic development is VERY expensive

/ Ken Kruly

When World War II ended and America got back to the business of business – building cars instead of tanks – government units like industrial development agencies had not been created. I don’t believe that big tax incentives to lure manufacturers and other businesses from one community to another with tax incentives were very common back then either. Factories built in the early twentieth century were already in place and the workforce to operate them had returned from military service. Continue reading →