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Guest Opinion by Justin Wilcox – May 31, 2024 Justin Wilcox is executive director of Upstate United, a nonpartisan, business and taxpayer advocacy coalition focused on growing the Upstate economy. The organization is based in Rochester. Much like the state’s widely documented failure to establish offshore wind projects, New York’s 2035 ban on vehicles with […]

Visit the Buffalo News to read the full piece. Among all the debates in Albany, there’s little disagreement over the reality of climate change. This is a serious issue that impacts all New Yorkers. Unfortunately, Albany’s climate plan is seriously flawed. Lawmakers believe that the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) and other initiatives […]

Business leaders overwhelmingly believe that New York’s government works against them, according to Siena College Research Institute Read the article by Rick Karlin here. COLONIE — Opinions about the upstate New York business climate are at the lowest point since 2008, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Siena College Research Institute. In all, 67 percent […]

New York’s population decline has been a long time in the making. In 2020, the year of COVID-19 and working from home, 1-in-every-100 New York residents left the state. According to the state Comptroller’s Office, 2021 marked the first year the total number of personal income tax filers declined since the Great Recession. Now, newly […]

New York farm trends mirror national movement on bigger farms By Joshua SolomonFeb 18, 2024 ALBANY — Half of New York’s dairy farms from a decade ago no longer exist as rising production costs and national market changes have shuttered thousands of small- and mid-size dairies. Despite the plummeting number of dairy and other farms in […]