William Colton

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Daily News Slams Abbate, Colton For Proposing Benefit Boost To Public Employees Amid Financial Crisis

Peter Abbate Source: assembly.state.ny.usAssemblymen Peter Abbate and William Colton introduced eight new bills that would increase pensions and retirement benefits for government workers, according to a report by the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/albany-introduced-bills-boost-retirement-fund-gov-workers-article-1.1269525] – and that’s got the paper’

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State Senate Candidate Andrew Gounardes Joins Assemblyman William Colton Against Waste Transfer Station

Gravesend Bay. Source: Jim Henderson via Wikimedia CommonsLast week, Assemblyman William Colton announced a lawsuit against the city over [/assemblyman-william-colton-fights-to-block-a-waste-transfer-station-from-moving-into-bensonhurst/] plans to build a waste transfer station at Bay 41st Street near Gravesend Bay. The location is on the site of a former incinerator that had been blamed for rising

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Golden, Kruger Silent On Hydrofracking

I’ve written before about the controversial method of “hydrofraking” [/gas-drilling-threatens-citys-water-supply/] near New York City’s watershed, and the State Legislature has finally put the brakes on business proposals until it’s been thoroughly studied [/epa-turns-eye-to-controversial-drilling-technique/]. Absent from the discussion, though, were Sheepshead Bay’s two state senators – Marty Golden