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IN FOCUS: The math doesn't work anymore for New York families | Fingerlakes1.com (opens the original)
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In last week’s column, I wrote about the people showing up at the Harmony Food Pantry in Waterloo. Five years ago, the pantry served 19 families during the entire month of August. Now, volunteers routinely see 20 to 30 families in a week. Some walk or bike there. Believe it or not, some even need food they can eat without a working stove or microwave. The question that stayed with me was how a household gets from managing to that point. It’s easy to say food costs more, or rent does, or wages ha
IN FOCUS: What happens when your city, town, or county can't afford market rate? | Fingerlakes1.com (opens the original)
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Note: This column was originally published over on the In Focus substack. You can read more of them here. What happens when your town can’t afford market rate anymore? Whether we’re talking about employees or housing, that question points to a fundamental problem that warrants more than the “Well, we just have to make do with less” attitude that surfaces nearly every time the subject comes up at a meeting. And it doesn’t have to be a town. It can be a city, village, county, or any municipality i
IN FOCUS: How do you avoid closing schools? | Fingerlakes1.com (opens the original)
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Note: This column was originally published on Substack here. An interesting question came out of the map I released last week looking at school district enrollment across Upstate New York. Well, there were two questions. But they’re inexplicably linked. Why are families leaving — or getting smaller? And how long can taxpayers in school districts support costs designed for communities with significantly more children than they have today? That second question is going to become increasingly diffi
IN FOCUS: School enrollment data is flashing a warning sign | Fingerlakes1.com (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: This column originally appeared over on Substack where I examine the issues, trends, and municipal decisions shaping communities across the Finger Lakes and Upstate New York. In today’s column, I wrote about a project I’ve been working on for a few months: A K-12 enrollment map covering every school district in New York State, built using publicly available NYSED data. You can drill down to individual districts, see how enrollment has changed, compare what’s happening around you,
IN FOCUS: Here's why Wolcott didn't just lose a grocery store | Fingerlakes1.com (opens the original)
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This column originally appeared on the ‘In Focus’ substack. You can follow that here. Small communities talk a lot about what they want. They talk less about what they can actually support. That’s the hard part of the story about a longtime, hometown grocery store in the village of Wolcott closing. Everyone understands why people want a grocery store back in the village. They should want one. Losing a full grocery store in a rural community isn’t the same as losing one in a suburb with five more
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