TGIF tidbits

Dutchess County Executive Bill Steinhaus participated with other county executives from the region in a forum Thursday on potential solutions to a variety of problems in the Hudson Valley. Steinhaus makes a reference in that story to affordable housing, but Westchester Executive Andrew Spano has the more colorful quote, about dancing the Funky Chicken.

Dutchess Legislator Joel Tyner, meanwhile, is preparing for one of his long walks to raise awareness of county issues. Tyner, D-Clinton, plans to leave at 10 a.m. today from the Rhinebeck town hall and trek 13 miles to the Clinton town hall carrying a sign promoting a county-coordinated, privately funded program to distribute compact fluorescent bulbs that would conserve energy. (On a fitness note: Tyner must have calves of steel after walking so many miles for so many causes.)

Republicans in the state Assembly are holding a two-hour forum on property tax reform at 10 a.m. today at the East Fishkill town hall, 330 Route 376, Hopewell Junction. Ball, Molinaro and Miller should be there, as well as several representatives of taxpayer groups and school districts. The public is invited. And my apologies for an error in today's print edition of the Journal, which reported the wrong starting time of the forum. It's correct here.

And if you're around Saturday, stop by the LaGrange Community Day at Freedom Park on Skidmore Road. U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-Hudson, plans to be there at 2 p.m. for the latest stop in her "Congress at Your Corner" series. You can call it, for one day at least, "Congress at Your Community Day."