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Empire State of Mind Part 2 - Mark Buckley and Meghan Cook

Posted on Podcast by Louis Zacharilla · November 27, 2019 12:28 PM · 1 reaction


In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla interviews Rochester's Mark Buckley and the Center for Technology in Government's Meghan Cook about New York - the state, not the city - and intelligent community development.

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"We Even Boast of Our Afflictions . . ."

Posted on News & Media by Louis Zacharilla · October 14, 2019 12:16 PM · 1 reaction

The price of freedom in any culture, society or community ultimately comes down to the cost of people being able to make the right choice for themselves and for future generations.

A Supreme Court justice once said that, while the USA’s Constitution was inspired, it did not come with a guarantee that people and places would automatically prosper. It ensured that the people, of whom the government was for, would be protected to make any choice they sought best.

“If people want to go to Hell, I will help them,” he added. “It’s my job.”

At ICF we turned that phrase around by declaring that, “If places want to prosper and get on the path to prosperity and stability, we will show them a method for doing it.”

But it can be Hell to get there.

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Podcast - Empire State of Mind - Peter Baynes, NY Conference of Mayors

Posted on Podcast by Louis Zacharilla · October 08, 2019 11:16 AM


PeterBaynes.gifPeter A. Baynes is Executive Director of the New York StateConference of Mayors and Municipal Officials (NYCOM), the membership association representing New York’s city and village governments. NYCOM has been in existence since 1910.

Mr. Baynes has been employed by NYCOM since 1985, having previously served as Legislative Analyst, Director of Intergovernmental Finance, and Deputy Director. He received a B.A.in History from Siena College and has taken Masters-level courses inHistory and Public Policy from the State University of New York at Albany.

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