Resort Expansion

[Brownski]

A regional golf Indy pass would probably do really well. 2 or 3 rounds each at 12 - 20 courses within a 2 or 3 county radius that was priced correctly? Seems like a homer run.

 

[JTG]

Speaking of Goshen....and thread drift....I got a “Central Hudson” scam attempt today. The scam is pretty elaborate, save for the shitty message, which is what initially had me skeptical. However, I called the 800 number they left and they’ve actually stolen/recorded the standard Central Hudson automated system message and prompts. You’d think you really reached CH. Of course nothing about what the dude said added up, and they insisted you go to the “Corporate Office” in Goshen to make a payment. CH doesn’t have any office in Goshen. Oh, you can’t go to Goshen....well you can send them money through Zelle. As if. Anywho, I called CH and reported them. I called the scammers back and told them I reported them to CH and that they are going to get caught!

 

[tirolski]

I tried to read it when it first came out but I found it way too biased against the ski companies and never finished it. Trying to limit ski area expansion is a bit draconian since every ski area is so different. Government intervention is not always the answer. There has to be a balance. Skiing is one way to generate jobs in areas where there are few jobs and it is usually environmentally cleaner than raw material extraction like mining or lumber.

An example of this would be VT Act 250, passed in 1970. Act 250 probably closed more ski areas in VT than any other reason. When it became obvious that ski areas could not operate without snowmaking in VT in the 1960s, Act 250 added even more expensive permitting to the process to get snowmaking approval. For most small mom and pop ski areas, this was the beginning of the end.

NY started has a similar Act with SEQR starting in the mid-late 70s. Pissed-off folks from the Love Canal area got it going, allegedly.