Tim Knauss

1 week ago | syracuse.com | Tim Knauss

Syracuse, N.Y. – The vacant lot on Hubbell Avenue sits amid 100-year-old duplexes. It has been undisturbed since 2008, when a run-down house on the property was demolished. That’s a familiar story in Syracuse. There are hundreds of similar lots, mostly in poor neighborhoods. The number grows each year as aging, neglected homes are torn down. And no one builds new homes on the vacant lots unless they can wangle $300,000 or so in hard-to-get government subsidies.

1 week ago | syracuse.com | Tim Knauss

Syracuse, N.Y. – Onondaga County lawmakers today approved a measure to spend $33 million from the county’s rainy-day fund, $27 million of which will be used to acquire shovel-ready sites to recruit new businesses to the area. The resolution passed on a strict party-line vote, with all 12 Republicans in support and five Democrats voting no.

1 week ago | syracuse.com | Tim Knauss

Syracuse, N.Y. – A funeral for Van B. Robinson, the former president of the Syracuse Common Council and a long-time community leader, will be held at noon Monday, May 12, at Bethany Baptist Church. Calling hours will be 10 a.m. to noon at the church, 149 Beattie St., Syracuse. A repast will follow the funeral service. Burial will be private at the Onondaga County Veterans Memorial Cemetery. Robinson, 87, died Saturday. He was a prominent and highly regarded leader in Syracuse for decades.

1 week ago | thelcn.com | Tim Knauss

SYRACUSE — Upstate New York residents are facing double-digit increases on their electric and gas bills if the state Public Service Commission approves a deal National Grid and PSC staff members are pushing. Two years after the new rates start phasing in, a typical household would pay 20% more for electricity and 27% more for natural gas. kAmqFE ?@E 2== 4FDE@>6CD H@F=5 7246 92CD9 :?4C62D6D] !2CE @7 }2E:@?2= vC:5’D 562= H:E9 !$r DE277 :D E@ >@C6 E92?

1 week ago | thedailynewsonline.com | Tim Knauss

SYRACUSE — Upstate New York residents are facing double-digit increases on their electric and gas bills if the state Public Service Commission approves a deal National Grid and PSC staff members are pushing. Two years after the new rates start phasing in, a typical household would pay 20% more for electricity and 27% more for natural gas. kAmqFE ?@E 2== 4FDE@>6CD H@F=5 7246 92CD9 :?4C62D6D] !2CE @7 }2E:@?2= vC:5’D 562= H:E9 !$r DE277 :D E@ >@C6 E92?