Most PPP loans have been forgiven, despite signs of possible fraud : NPR
George P Watson
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Been walking around the old Wheeler Watson Cementary up at Huyck Preserve πͺ¦
Been walking around the old Wheeler Watson Cementary up at Huyck Preserve πͺ¦
It’s in terrible state of disrepair, abandoned, forgotten long ago as most of the grave stones date back to the 1840s – which was a 180 years ago. Many of the markers are broken, most being simple locally harvested blue stone although some are marble.
It has to have been a much simpler life back then. Far less government influence and regulations. There were probably far fewer police officers and no speed traps, people probably did pretty much whatever they wanted in the backwoods. If people had any idea of what happened in Washington DC, by the time they got the news it was weeks old.
People, especially the many farm families up this way had to be quite self reliant. There simply weren’t all the synthetic materials of today, not to say that they weren’t already using many toxic substances carelessly – they were. Forests by then certainly were being overcut, land abused by farming and tillage, forests over hunted and left denuded.
Historical sites often glamorize the colonial times, paintings give them a romantic image. Colonial people where hardly conservationists, and they were pretty violent both to nature and their fellow human beings. But there also was a simplicity and a local culture lost in the era of motoring and cheap, quickly discarded plastic from China.
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OPEC predicts that oil demand will soften in the next few months, thanks to economic headwinds, while the U.S. Energy Information Administration warns that winter heating bills are likely to rise.
Both closely watched fuel forecasts were released on Wednesday.
OPEC's monthly oil market report sounded a pessimistic note about global economic growth. And because economic growth drives oil demand, the group reduced its projections for growth in global oil consumption by 500,000 barrels per day, or more than 15%.
NYS Statewide Snowmobile Trail System
This interactive map shows the approximately 10,000 miles of funded snowmobile trails in New York State on public and private lands across the state.
Data Source: NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. Statewide Snowmobile Trail System. https://data.ny.gov/Recreation/Statewide-Snowmobile-Trail-System/dqg7-5njk
According to state tax records, 1,813 buildings were constructed in New York State in 2020
According to state tax records, 1,813 buildings were constructed in New York State in 2020.
Here are top 10 counties for new buildings:
County | New Buildings |
Suffolk | 339 |
Saratoga | 131 |
Monroe | 116 |
Erie | 106 |
Orange | 96 |
Rockland | 88 |
Westchester | 77 |
Dutchess | 70 |
Ontario | 69 |
Albany | 48 |
Make this list yourself in Python:
from arcgis.features import FeatureLayer
lyr_url = 'https://gisservices.its.ny.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NYS_Tax_Parcel_Centroid_Points/MapServer/0'
layer = FeatureLayer(lyr_url)
q= layer.query(where="YR_BLT=2020", out_fields='PARCEL_ADDR,CITYTOWN_NAME,COUNTY_NAME', out_sr='4326')
q.sdf.groupby(by='COUNTY_NAME').count()['PARCEL_ADDR'].sort_values(ascending=False).head(10)