Here is the pledge I make to Binghamton’s beleaguered taxpayers: If at the end of my first term, your city taxes are not lower than they are now, I will not seek a second term. Here is the plan: First, the plan is a long term vision, not my version of a “you make the budget” [...]
#1 – Binghamton city government should be run like a “business”. Right now the former mayor’s former front man is peddling the notion that he will run city government “like a business”. He has no business making such a claim. First, we’re talking about someone who announced he was going into business - a bar business [...]
Consider what has greeted visitors to Binghamton coming out of downtown hotels over the last decade and a half when they take a walk after breakfast on weekend mornings. Has it been a city that appeared actively committed to safety and cleanliness, or has it been one filled with trash, cigarette butts, broken glass, and [...]
I can’t find anyone who remembers when city property taxes went down in Binghamton. Are perpetual tax increases now a foregone conclusion? Can taxes never go down again? If so, from where will all the money come to pay the yearly increases, especially for older people? Four years ago the pandering directed their way was [...]
In 2005 the fatuous cliche being passed off by some as sage local political wisdom in Binghamton, New York, was that a vote for the third party mayoral candidate was a vote thrown away. The ’05 results proved otherwise. Not surprisingly, in spite of the truth supported by overwhelming evidence, that same intellectual dishonesty and [...]
Will Binghamton, New York reach its fifth straight US Census losing upper and middle income population? It’s about to reach its fourth. If the second decade in this century is to be judged a good one for Binghamton, the 2020 census must show an end to that nearly 40 year trend here. The first decade [...]
Now comes Binghamton, New York’s Republican mayoral candidate, claiming he is outraged by and adamantly opposed to a proposed roundabout as part of the so-called Court Street Gateway Project, and blaming the current mayor for this unpopular effort going forward. Yet, when the project commenced in 2005, and the Republican candidate was deputy mayor, he [...]
