Albany insiders on "evolve or die"
The WCNY radio show The Capitol Pressroom, ably and entertainingly hosted by Susan Arbetter, considered the “Can New York Be Saved?” New York Times Oped question Wednesday.
Arbetter and her co-host Jay Gallagher (former Albany bureau chief for Gannett) assembled three other prominent New Yorkers who are considered experts on budgets and state policy to take up the same question, with the Times’ writers as their starting point.
The three: David Liebschutz of the Center for Governmental research; Frank Morrow of the Fiscal Policy Institute and E.J. McMahon of Empire center for NYS Policy (a project of the Manhattan Institute).
They spent the second half of the show on the question, but I pulled about 9 and a half minutes of the conversation about the Mitchell Moss piece “Struggling Towns Must Evolve or Die.”
They do wander around, along the Mohawk River and the Erie Canal (they include Yonkers as one of these “central cities of upstate”), to the Adirondacks (stifled by “environmental regulatory extremism”), to the Chaplain Bridge.
You can hear the whole show here. The conversation basically takes up the second half of the show.
And Inbox late-comers can scroll down to read the many comments posted here this week.
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"(stifled by "environmental regulatory extremism")"Ah yes, the old Blame the Greenies canard. How do they explain the similarly dire straits of much of western and central NY, where there is no vilanious APA "strangling" them?
Yonkers is upstate? Get a map people!
Brian F,There are 2 counties there located entirely within the Blue Line: Hamilton and Essex. Hamilton is the poorest county in the state. Essex county is somewhat better off because of Lake Placid.