Scoring the schemes: A look at regional economic development
plans   Here’s a look at the proposals coming out of the Capital
Region in and around Albany:  CapitalRegion CFA 7-3-12    1. Don
says:      More feel good BS in a state with excessive spending
and taxes. Spending money on the BS rather than cutting spending
and taxes- the only program that will work.    2. J says:
When does the pork barrel spending, I mean economic development
projects, begin? Also, how much money did the taxpayers of the
state of NY pay for CNBC superstar Maria Bartoromo to come up to
Albany to host Andy’s econcomic game show (his spectacle
announcing this pork barrel, I mean economic develoment
spending)?    3. Jimmy says:      Easier to read here:      Big
ones that stand out are over $10 million for the Port, and
millions to real estate agencies to ‘redevelop’ slum housing;
though some of it has to continue to be affordable, not all of
it does. Sounds like a piece of the CSNY payoff (which is
comprised primarily of real es