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Assemblyman Scott Gray
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Last night was a referendum on the national stage. But winning because you oppose someone is not the same as earning a mandate to govern. You have to govern with ideas and purpose, and no one had a better idea in the lead-up to Election Day.
Nobody owned the mantle of affordability in this election cycle. Neither the national nor the state agenda has tackled utility costs, housing costs, or mandates, fees, and charges governments keep adding to New Yorkers' everyday taxes and expenses.
The challenge to our colleagues as we head back to Albany: don't swing so far the other way that we create the same opposition from a different angle. Solutions come from a coalition of ideas, not one side.
As President Kennedy said, "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer." New Yorkers deserve it.
Nobody owned the mantle of affordability in this election cycle. Neither the national nor the state agenda has tackled utility costs, housing costs, or mandates, fees, and charges governments keep adding to New Yorkers' everyday taxes and expenses.
The challenge to our colleagues as we head back to Albany: don't swing so far the other way that we create the same opposition from a different angle. Solutions come from a coalition of ideas, not one side.
As President Kennedy said, "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer." New Yorkers deserve it.
Earned media: a time-honored pillar of nearly every campaign strategy.
Bludgeoning the media: a less conventional approach, whose results, shall we say, remain unproven.
Bludgeoning the media: a less conventional approach, whose results, shall we say, remain unproven.
Proud to represent such a critical facility in our energy system
Twenty-two thousand men moved the St. Lawrence. The dam they built still runs.
The St. Lawrence–FDR Power Project sits on the river at Massena, in St. Lawrence County. Ground was broken on August 10, 1954, on both shores at once: New York at Massena, Ontario at Cornwall, across the water.
The Power Authority of the State of New York built the American half, Ontario Hydro the Canadian half, and the two halves meet at the international boundary in the middle of a dam 3,300 feet long.
The job was bigger than the dam. The river had to be moved out of its bed so the dam could be poured in the dry, behind cofferdams. Fifty-seven million cubic yards of channel were dug for the Seaway alongside it. Before the first kilowatt, the dam alone took 1,900,000 cubic yards of concrete and 110,000 tons of steel. Six villages on the Canadian side went under the new pool; on the New York shore, cottages and the cemeteries at Waddington were moved above it.
On July 1, 1958, the cofferdam was blown and the river filled the reservoir. The first of the 32 generators, sixteen on each side of the border, began to turn that month. By July 1959 all sixteen American units were running and every drop of water the treaty gave the United States was going through a turbine. The U.S. share of the cost was $335 million, paid by bonds the Power Authority sold against the power it would make, not by taxes.
The customers were there from the first day. Alcoa’s Massena smelter, running since 1903, signed for power in 1955. Reynolds and General Motors built new plants at Massena while the dam was going up. The rest went to municipal systems, rural co-ops and the grid.
It is still running. In 2024 the Robert Moses Power Dam made 7.4 billion kilowatt-hours, about what a million New York households use in a year, from sixteen units and 912 megawatts, every one of them on the grid.
Between 1998 and 2013 the Power Authority replaced all sixteen turbines, at $281 million for the lot, and the federal license runs to 2053. The water is set each week by the International Joint Commission; the plant has made between 6.9 and 7.8 billion kilowatt-hours every year of the last ten.
Sixty-eight years after the first unit turned, the biggest power plant New York ever built in one piece is doing exactly what it was built to do.View quoted post on X
I'm hearing NYSDOT has been told no lane closures on Election Day. Easier travel for voters is a good thing. Still, have to wonder: who made that call, and why this year?