County will continue to pursue new economic development entity
AUBURN -- Cayuga County will continue to pursue the formation of a new entity for coordinated economic development in the county. But that organization's structure and funding source are still up in the air. Members of the Legislature's Planning and ...
 2.1K - Aug. 5, 2008; scored 1000.0 County legislators still considering new economic development agency
AURELIUS -- Cayuga County legislators are still considering a new economic development agency despite the fact that private money is now apparently off the table. And some legislators expressed hope Thursday that the county can still secure outside f...
2.4K - Jul. 31, 2008; scored 972.0 Schuster blasts Stardust offer
Cayuga County should not take money from private organizations to fund a new local economic development approach, one county legislator is now saying. Daniel Schuster, chairman of the county Legislature's committee on planning and economic d...
8.7K - Jul. 22, 2008; scored 472.0 Questions asked on development group structure
AUBURN - The Cayuga County Planning committee Tuesday continued its discussion about plans for the economic development program. The committee talked about whether it would be more beneficial to use the existing Cayuga County Development Cor...
5.7K - Sep. 2, 2008; scored 466.0 Private development funds pulled
A local organization of community leaders will not financially help Cayuga County start a new economic development entity. The members of A Call to Action: A Blueprint For Our Region's Future have pulled an offer to front $500,000 ...
4.0K - Jul. 30, 2008; scored 448.0 Development group still planned
AUBURN - Cayuga County will continue to pursue the formation of a new entity for coordinated economic development in the county. But that organization's structure and funding source are still up in the air. Members of the Legislatur...
3.9K - Aug. 6, 2008; scored 410.0 Legislators support economic development changes
Click here to read the text of Dan Schuster's July 20 statement AURELIUS - Cayuga County legislators are still considering a new economic development approach despite the fact that private money to help launch such a change has been pulled....
4.7K - Aug. 1, 2008; scored 406.0 Stardust funds taken off economic development table
Citing county leaders' desire to prevent private money from influencing public policy, the members of a community group pushing for a new first-stop entity for economic development said they have pulled their funding offer. The members of A Call to A...
1.9K - Jul. 29, 2008; scored 384.0 Our View: Legislature can't lose sight of agency's purpose
While it's encouraging to see the county Legislature show overall support this week for creating a first-stop economic development agency, there's still considerable work to do. Until there's money in the final budget to make this chan...
2.0K - Oct. 1, 2008; scored 342.0 Our view: Let's get past conspiracies, find solutions
Cayuga County Legislator Dan Schuster said he wanted to generate public discussion by issuing his 5,000-word statement rejecting an offer of funds from the Stardust Foundation to help establish a new city-county economic development entity. Public di...
2.6K - Jul. 27, 2008; scored 342.0 Legislature to meet next week on Blueprint
Cayuga County legislators and other local officials will have a chance to work out some unresolved issues over economic development. Legislator Daniel Schuster announced Tuesday during the monthly meeting of the County Legislature that the county Pla...
2.4K - Jul. 23, 2008; scored 336.0 New county budget will fund economic agency
AUBURN - The proposed Cayuga County budget for 2009 will include a new economic development agency, according to county officials. But what the agency will look like and how its members are picked are still undecided. The county Legislature held...
3.4K - Sep. 30, 2008; scored 336.0 County has lost $500,000 it couldn't afford to lose
We're in a recession; gas is over $4/gal, unemployment rate over 5 percent and getting worse; the county is projecting tax increases (again) - which will be on top of the AECSD's tax increases) and now we get anoth...
2.1K - Jul. 31, 2008; scored 320.0 Cheese factory deal progressing
An upstart cheese company is wedging its way toward opening a factory in Cayuga County. And it is asking for both state and federal help to get it over the hump. The city of Auburn accepted in July an initial application to extend its Empire Zone to ...
2.9K - Aug. 30, 2008; scored 314.0 County might drill for natural gas on its own property
AUBURN - The Cayuga County Legislature is considering the possibility of exploring and drilling for natural gas on county property. The city of Auburn has been doing something similar for some time, so the county decided to see if there is a...
3.1K - Aug. 12, 2008; scored 314.0 Schuster wrong about economic development
Recently I received an e-mail from Cayuga County Legislator Schuster regarding the Blueprint Group and their involvement regarding economic development in Cayuga County. Mr. Schuster portrays the group or at least some members as the bullies of Cayug...
1.6K - Jul. 23, 2008; scored 288.0 Debating the Schine's project
Just look at building to see council's failure Seventy years ago, Auburn closed its schools and shops to make way for “The Pageant of Progress.” The pageant was a large celebration parade that ended up at the doors of Auburn's n...
8.4K - Sep. 13, 2008; scored 280.0 Blueprint group working on several area projects
When we first offered our Blueprint for the Region's Future in January 2007, we envisioned it as an outline, like a set of plans, which once in a builder's hands, could reconstruct the way our community does business for the better....
1.9K - Jul. 31, 2008; scored 250.0 Arcuri calls for improving local infrastructure to help economy
FLEMING - Investing in infrastructure and alternative energy can aid local economies, U.S. Rep. Michael Arcuri told local officials and residents Monday. During a luncheon hosted by the Cayuga County Chamber of Commerce, the Democratic congr...
3.8K - Aug. 18, 2008; scored 235.0 Arcuri calls for improving local infrastructure to help economy
FLEMING - Investing in infrastructure and alternative energy can aid local economies, U.S. Rep. Michael Arcuri told local officials and residents Monday. During a luncheon hosted by the Cayuga County Chamber of Commerce, the Democratic congr...
3.8K - Aug. 18, 2008; scored 235.0 | 
