Posted on October 6 at 2:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)

these salaries are exorbitant......in a time when people are losing homes, jobs and life savings, these
exorbitant salaries only represent the GREED that is prevalent throughout the government and private sector..we all must pay higher taxes and higher prices to pay for these higher salaries..it is robbery, pure and simple, of the working class and the poor... and what is more, they do not think they should have to pay taxes on those exorbitant salaries!!??!!!

On Raises proposed for Schenectady County managers

Posted on August 12 at 4:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)

there is no solution for this...many said this would happen...

On Officials reeling over possible loss of aid

Posted on August 4 at 12:14 a.m. (Suggest removal)

who are you kidding..schenectady has little to offer..no jobs..so many.companies have left...not everybody wants to work at Mcdonalds ..downtown is quiet as a tomb most of the time...the property taxes in schenectady and niskayuna and troy won't attract anybody...you can't go out safely after nine o'clock at night..

On Report: Small cities set to bloom

Posted on August 4 at 12:07 a.m. (Suggest removal)

there are too many inaccurate comparisions between the immigration waves of the past and those of the present. ..today's immigrants are very expensive to support,entire families and extended families as well
are financially sustained and educated, all at public expense.Language, literacy and citizenship is given free of charge. communities already hard put to take care of their resident populations must take care of more...
people expect to live with adequate housing and automobiles as well as the necessaries of life...
all at great expense....
my grandfather arrived from england in the mid 1800s..
he went right to work....no welfare, no food stamps, mo medcaid, and certainly no college education was given to him.he could not afford to own his own home....it took three generations of hard work until my brothers could go to college...immigrants can receive far too much too soon..many Americans already
living here in this country are not given as much.

On New faces in new places

Posted on July 20 at 4:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)

most people that apply for welfare go there because they have no JOB...JOB....JOB.....NO EMPLOYMENT.....schenectady for the millionth time, is NOT attracting enough employers ...so many have left....
is it necessary to fire off rockets to get the leaders attention??? everyone has been saying this for years and years and while some companies have come here,think of all the companies that have left.....what a joke!

On Should drug tests be required of any applicant or recipient of public assistance?

Posted on July 7 at 2:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)

add this to the thousands of stories over the past fifty years..schenectady is not safe to live in

On Schenectady shooting victim identified

Posted on May 30 at 6 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Metroplex is the only trough to feed from because Schenectady has not attracted and kept jobs..it's tax base is nothing to be proud of...many people figured out that Schenectady had nothing much to offer besides NYC refugees(50% of the county receives welfare benefits BTW), very few well-paying jobs in side the city proper,higher property taxes and lowered income/tax revenue from commercial and industrial concerns...Schenectady exists for a few well-heeled politicians and government workers,millionaire contractors and a few remaining chain stores...Metroplex has carried monied people for a very long time, while the city continues to economically deteriorate.

On Editorial: Time for compromise on Metroplex

Posted on April 5 at 4:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)

both the federal and state and local governments are doing as little as possible to prepare for the retirement of millions of baby-boomers which take up the major percentage of expenditures for at least twenty years....practically all expenditures will directly or
in-directly involve this massive retirement unlike any
America has seen.

On Editorial: The high price of 'getting along'

Posted on March 2 at 3:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)

we are going into a recession..no amount of education regarding savings can repair the increasing cost of living which has increased the price of rent, utilities,
gas, education and food....everywhere we can see our paychecks buying less and less...and being able to save less and less, if at all...there is something terribly wrong with this economy's arithmetic...

On Efforts teach people to put their trust, money in banks

Posted on February 7 at 4:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)

give the kids someone to be proud of

On Which name would you have preferred for Schenectady's former St. Luke's School?