Quoted from benny salami

When the GOP was in "charged" the County sales tax was 4%-not 8.25. People actually flocked to this County to buy things. Now we run to Albany of Saratoga County. The GOP didn't raise property taxes 10% COUNTYWIDE in a recession. They also didn't run record deficits. But don't let the facts get in the way of your preconceived notions. Take another look at Gillen's Gulch.

Ok  it is obvious you are a very disgruntled  republican.......sales tax  4%    how many years ago was that.......times are changing

eyyyyyy! If it has to be 15% to take care of the seniors and the kids then so be it! Why complain you skin flint with the most money as all repubs have they dont want to pay the fair share. Plus the police are not paid enough and the fire men are not neither are the teachers who deserv all th e more if we want the kids educated right you cant just throw some struence in there and expect they know how to teach the kids so common will you and wake up and realize that the things we need over here cost some money. Why don you try to lay down your life like th e men in blue Benny and see how easy that is and then want the tax at only 4 % besides if you dont want to pay then stop buying the nice furniture and the in - ground pools and the caddilacs and this here

Well i think we all would love  4% tax but in realty is not gonna happen

What's the cost of welfare in this county right now?

Quoted from B GAGE

Ok  it is obvious you are a very disgruntled  republican.......sales tax  4%    how many years ago was that.......times are changing

No the party that runs the County has changed. Hacks have taken over at the County building. Patronage is the name of the game. Say hello to Lumpy Kosiur. We had a great County Manager who wasn't a Rep. And now? What a joke. Worst taxes in the NATION.

    Take off the partisan blinders. You correctly identify the problem then support the idiotic Krats who are making this more of a welfare dumping ground. The Krat auto-response says too many taxing paying drug stores? More businesses-who cares what kind-less welfare programs.

Quoted from Shadow

What's the cost of welfare in this county right now?

NYS is the highest payer of welfare in the COUNTRY! 79% higher than any other state in the COUNTRY!!!

Quoted from benny salami

No the party that runs the County has changed. Hacks have taken over at the County building. Patronage is the name of the game. Say hello to Lumpy Kosiur. We had a great County Manager who wasn't a Rep. And now? What a joke. Worst taxes in the NATION.

    Take off the partisan blinders. You correctly identify the problem then support the idiotic Krats who are making this more of a welfare dumping ground. The Krat auto-response says too many taxing paying drug stores? More businesses-who cares what kind-less welfare programs.

Benny  i agree with you about the  welfare situation..i am totally  disgusted with it......also i see very clear  thanks.....

Quoted from Shadow

What's the cost of welfare in this county right now?

In Schenectady County, social services devours about three quarters of the annual county budget.

It sure sounds like something should be changed to reduce the amount of money going to pay for the welfare amount that's killing the taxpayers wallet.

WOW...I was only wondering about the drugstore, and look what I got!

Quoted from joebxr

WOW...I was only wondering about the drugstore, and look what I got!

Ya just never know what yer gonna get here!

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EDITORIALS
For drugstores, the chain has broken

    It’s bad enough when a chain drugstore opens in an area that’s already lousy with them, then has to close in a few years, when the owners are confronted by the inevitable. Now Schenectady, which seems to have been on the front lines of this ever-escalating retail war, is suffering from a different form of related blight – a drugstore that closes before it even gets a chance to open!
    As anyone who’s driven on Chrisler Avenue lately (or read Wednesday’s Gazette) has noticed, there’s a brand, spanking new CVS sitting at the back of an expansive asphalt parking lot where the city’s last American Legion hall used to be. It looks to be ready for its ribbon-cutting ceremony: The signs are all up, the shelves are in place, shopping carts are lined up in the vestibule, and marketing material has even been hung inside.
    But the store has been looking this way for weeks, and a company spokesman has now confirmed the neighborhood’s worst fears: It’s not going to open for another 11 months at the earliest. And no further comment.
    Granted, the recession that began just around the time that plans for this store were conceived has gotten worse; so it probably has more than something to do with the decision.
    At the same time, though, CVS was planning to close two of its other stores in the area – one at the Hannaford Plaza on Altamont Avenue, the other on Hamburg Street – when the new one opened. Those stores’ leases are both still active, so maybe CVS just figured it didn’t make sense to be paying rent on stores that would no longer be generating any income for the company. But drugstore chains do that routinely - entering leases for up to 30 years, then pulling out long before they’re expired - so it’s anybody’s guess what happened here.
    It’s also possible that the company realized that with so many other chain drugstores nearby – at least half a dozen within a mile, including ones in Hannaford, Price Chopper and Wal-Mart – that this business model didn’t make much sense.
    One thing’s for certain, though, and that’s that this unopened store is an eyesore.
    City officials who’ve been thinking about caving in to Walgreens’ proposal to open yet another suburban-style store on the corner of State Street and Brandywine Avenue – across from a Rite Aid and a long-closed Eckerd’s recently reborn as an Aaron’s Rent-a-Center – need to keep this latest twist in the drugstore wars in ..................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar02601

Instead of focusing on the long delayed Metrograft audit, the Gazetto attacks national chains that are trying to build in the horrible Vale neighborhood. Some big issue preserving the pedestrian friendly Vale neighborhood? God forbid we have actual competition and lower prices. Or another place to sell their "news". What's their design? Oh yeah the same suburban type campus that they rail against while supporting a gravel parking lot eyesore.

    

Still nothing .. amazing.

I see action there.....