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KINGSTON, N.Y. >> A candidate for a Common Council seat says the city ought to hold off from consolidating its bus system with Ulster County Area Transit until more results are in about a similar takeover . Jim Rodden, who has secured the GOP line in November’s election for an Eighth Ward race , is not convinced that consolidation of the city bus system , known as Citibus, with Ulster County Area Transit is such a good idea. Rodden is also seeking the Democratic line in a Sept. 12 primary against incumbent Eighth Ward Alderman Steve Schabot and political newcomer Cassandra Burke . Schabot has the endorsement of the city’s Democratic Committee and the Working Families Party . Rodden has the Independence Party nod . Advertisement Rodden is particularly concerned about the city ensuring efficient bus service given the reliance on it by residents, including senior citizens , of two large apartment complexes in his ward. They are Rondout Gardens and Spring Brook Vill...

Palo Alto Jane Huang, 29 Huang moved to Palo Alto with her parents at the age of four. She attended local high schools and Stanford University. Yet despite her hard work, the Palo Alto housing market is too challenging for her to foresee a future in her hometown. “I went to Stanford, I work as a software developer, I make a six-figure income, and I still have to live with three roommates,” Huang said. “What more can I do?” Huang isn’t worried about not being able to pay her rent, but she is worried about doing anything that might upset her landlord. “Landlords have a lot more power here than they used to,” she said. “They know how impossible it would be for their renters to find anything else locally.” While her concerns for herself are real and serious — “With the current housing market , I’m afraid I’ll have to live with roommates for the rest of my life” — she’s equally concerned about what the housing market means for the many Palo Altans who weren’t fortunate enough t...

Reliable Sports owner Ken Vos sold to a different buyer. By Sydney.Smith@hollandsentinel.com (616) 546-4219 Reliable Sports isn ’t going anywhere. After Holland City Council approved an affordable housing development earlier this year, developer General Capital could not secure funding through the Michigan State Housing Development Authority , and Reliable Sports owner Ken Vos sold to another buyer who wants to keep the business open. Vos confirmed that the building is under contract to be sold in a sale that will be finalized at the end of September. The building located at 254 S. River Ave. was sold in July. Vos declined to share who the new owner will be, but said they "are a prominent figure in downtown Holland ." He still plans to retire, and a retirement sale is underway at the store. Since the business will remain open, that means the planned 54- unit affordable housing building Centennial Apartments will not happen — unless the new buyer decides to work with...

See more of the story When Lee Stotts was born in 1968, his parents took him to the cleaners. They brought their newborn straight from the hospital to Edina Cleaners , the family’s longtime business in Edina’s Morningside neighborhood, before they even took him home. “This was my playground,” Stotts, now 49, said. “This is where I spent my entire life. I’ve lived and breathed this company, this location, my entire life.” But now Stotts, in the wake of his father’s death last year and facing slower business , has decided to sell the building to a developer who wants to build a five-story mixed-use structure there. The plans are creating tension in the peaceful neighborhood, where neighbors are wary of the project’s height and density and worry it could set a precedent for more such development at 44th Street and France Avenue. Bob Kearney, who moved to Morningside 30 years ago , said he realizes that “it’s not going to be 1950s Morningside here forever.” “But everybody is also aware tha...

One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency . Icahn is one of the richest men on Wall Street, and he has thrived, in no small measure, because of a capacity to intimidate. A Texas- based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous. Icahn is a voluble critic of any government regulation that constrains his companies. So he wanted to speak with the person in charge of enforcing the policy: a senior official at the E.P.A. named Janet McCabe . Icahn works from a suite of offices, atop the General Motors Building , in midtown, that are decorated in the oak-and-leather fashion of a tycoon’s lair in a nineteen-eighties film. During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders , pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine ...