“I’d like first to commend you, Melissa Hale-Spencer and Elizabeth Floyd Mair and Sean Mulkerrin, for the consistently excellent editorials and reporting published in The Altamont Enterprise. I’d also like to commend James Gaughan and Jeff Perlee for their extensive comments, reminding us of the treasure the Helderberg escarpment and its viewsheds from above and below are. The Altamont Enterprise’s influence on our mutual sense of community is priceless.
With regard to Sean’s recent article, “Solar Rises,” explaining and bringing to our attention the “governor’s back-door plan” hidden in his budget proposal as the Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act ostensibly to facilitate accelerated implementation of Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act to set aside the legal and historical local/home rule tradition assigning land-use decisions to counties, cities, towns, and villages, by the constitution and the Municipal Home Rule Law:”
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Klaer, Charles. Altamont Enterprise 12 March 2020.