Bailout Loan for NYRA in Works

Saratoga, Belmont Meets to be Saved by State Note for up to $25 Million

ALBANY -- Gov. David Paterson's office is working on a new bill to permit the state to loan the New York Racing Association $17 million to $25 million.

The measure is designed to permit NYRA to run the summer meet in Saratoga Springs and pay bills for the now-imperiled Belmont meet that starts next month, the governor's aides said Tuesday. The new plan replaces a bill dumped last week as unworkable.

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Bailout Loan for NYRA in Works

One Moos and One Hums, but They Could Help Power Google

Cow manure could provide power for computing cente

America’s dairy farmers could soon find themselves in the computer business, with the manure from their cows possibly powering the vast data centers of companies like Google and Microsoft. While not immediately intuitive, the idea plays on two trends: the building of computing centers in more rural locales, and dairy farmers’ efforts to deal with cattle waste by turning it into fuel.

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One Moos and One Hums

An Urban Farming Pioneer Sows His Own Legacy

John Ameroso at a farm he started on Governor’s Is

JOHN AMEROSO didn’t hoe the rows of vegetables that help feed the Bronx at the Padre Plaza Success Garden in the borough’s Mott Haven section. He didn’t pick any tomatoes from the vines at the Brooklyn Rescue Mission’s farm. And he didn’t turn the composting bins that kept East New York Farms! fertile ground for collards, cilantro and chard.

But he’s responsible for all of it, along with the rest of more than 18 tons of produce grown in city lots for market last year.

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Urban Farming Pioneer

Green Central New York Celebrates the 'Green of the Crop'

Cover design by Susan Santola / Staff artist

Syracuse, NY -- Welcome to the May/June issue of Green Central New York magazine, where you'll meet some local people and institutions leading the way to sustainability by their example.

Back in March, New York's Creative Core launched a contest to find households, schools, businesses and innovators doing "green'' things. They invited you to nominate candidates in all four categories for a new award, the Green of the Crop. Meet the winners:

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Green Central New York Celebrates