Derek has a great entry on his blog at http://blog.megacity.org about our hometown of Saugerties. Seems an Indian Tribe would like to build a casino on the vacant tract of land that Woodstock '94 took place on. Townspeople as Derek correctly points out are all torqued up about this. Again, we smack up against this price of progress thing. I'm not an advocate of unregulated development here, but I am a proponent for progress. Saugerties and Ulster County are dying a slow death. Look around... see much? See any large company wanting to relocate to the county? See anything going up besides senior or low rent housing to cover for the boom in both populations because industry can't support high salaries.
What you see is the same old shit, cyclical and unyielding. This guy is the mayor and then some clone comes in and takes his place, with a few exceptions. This place comes in and says that they are going to employ 500 locals and then ends up employing 50 and going away after they get their first tax bill. What has been added? What has been taken away? Probably equal amounts.
I have lived other places and do not see the same issues. Why?
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