State Senate Candidate Mike Kaplowitz proposes a plan to lower New York State’s rising public pension costs.

It is my pleasure to distribute my newsletter to you, my perspective on what’s happening in our county and community.

I have represented our area for several years.  I hope you know me well enough to know that I always have served with honesty and sincerity.  I care about our district and the county and doing what is right.

Since January, the Democrats hold only 6 out of 25 seats, with the one Conservative sitting in the Democratic caucus.  Prior to the Democratic majority for the years 2008 – 2009, the County Executive dictated policy and direction and the Republican majority on the Legislature fell in line.  We now are back to this way of governance.  The County Executive has minimized the role of the Legislature and the Republican majority has allowed him to do this.   It is a “slippery slope” that has been established.
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By Bill McCabe — As published in Hudson Valley News

After two months of crude oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, now estimated by government scientists at an astonishing 2.1 million gallons per day, British Petroleum joins an infamous list of multi-national companies demonstrating high levels of corporate greed and insensitivity to the common good.

BP joins the corporate irresponsibility of Enron in California, Exxon in Alaska, Texaco in the Amazon, the investment banks on Wall Street, GE in the Hudson River, and Union Carbide in Bhopal, India. Motivated by the urge for more and more profits, these entities have brought economic environmental and/or economic ruin to so many who mistakenly trusted large corporations to do the right thing. These corporations, as well as others over the years, took short cuts, put lives in jeopardy, and did their best shift blame.
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Four candidates running in the Democratic primary this fall for NYS Attorney General appeared last Saturday at Tymor Park in a debate organized by the Dutchess County Democratic Committee. Each made their case for why they should be the next Attorney General. Collegial and respectful, it was informative and entertaining for all who attended.

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