About 400 elementary- and middle-school students taking part in the Shenendehowa Inventors program will display their inventions at the former Cotton Market store at Clifton Park Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Municipal Employees need to have a stake in the outcome of races besides who will most enrich their paychecks. If their salary comes from tax dollars, they should also have to pay the taxes from which it comes.
Anic, why is that discrimination? Don't you think that a community is served better by the people that live there? Don't you think that is the first place leaders should look for people to serve their community? I don't think people should be uniformly shut out if they don't live there, but the people that do should be given first crack.
If people live in a city they know for themselves what streets get traffic when, what areas don't get really cleaned up for days after a heavy snowfall, which streets are safe to walk after dark, how much it means when they raise taxes/fees even 1%.....
editorial, you have a mistaken idea of municipal employees' concerns if you think they are interested only in the sizes of their paychecks.
MDogsMom, the issues you mention are valid ones for street and police departments, but everybody pays taxes everywhere. I haven't heard of any place that isn't raising property taxes.
In a small community, limiting employment to residents would be a fast way to politicize the office work. Clerk likes you: you get your work done first. Clerk hasn't liked you since first grade: you get moved to the bottom of the pile.
9:05 a.m. [ Suggest removal ]
Great, a new form of discrimination!
9:24 a.m. [ Suggest removal ]
Municipal Employees need to have a stake in the outcome of races besides who will most enrich their paychecks. If their salary comes from tax dollars, they should also have to pay the taxes from which it comes.
9:25 a.m. [ Suggest removal ]
Anic, why is that discrimination? Don't you think that a community is served better by the people that live there? Don't you think that is the first place leaders should look for people to serve their community? I don't think people should be uniformly shut out if they don't live there, but the people that do should be given first crack.
5:48 p.m. [ Suggest removal ]
If people live in a city they know for themselves what streets get traffic when, what areas don't get really cleaned up for days after a heavy snowfall, which streets are safe to walk after dark, how much it means when they raise taxes/fees even 1%.....
6:53 a.m. [ Suggest removal ]
editorial, you have a mistaken idea of municipal employees' concerns if you think they are interested only in the sizes of their paychecks.
MDogsMom, the issues you mention are valid ones for street and police departments, but everybody pays taxes everywhere. I haven't heard of any place that isn't raising property taxes.
In a small community, limiting employment to residents would be a fast way to politicize the office work. Clerk likes you: you get your work done first. Clerk hasn't liked you since first grade: you get moved to the bottom of the pile.