Hello, Collar City! This is Issue 42, dated July 5, 2019.



Hey, again. In this issue: details on the city's energy performance contract, a land bank meeting, details on the latest batch of city foreclosures, and more.



Ummmm, so, (*deep breath*) some news: Troy Letter will publish its last issue on July 26. Patrons and sponsors were charged through Patreon for the last time at the start of this month. (I'm going to "pause" the Patreon page right after this email goes out, then unlaunch it later this month.)



This, as you might imagine, was a very difficult decision. TL is still gaining readers and patrons. The city is in the midst of an apparent apartment-building boom and an important election. There's no shortage of potential Troy-related content that might otherwise not be covered by other media outlets. I often meet TL readers when I'm out and about who encourage me to keep it up.



The main reason I'm ending TL is because I have accepted and will soon be starting a reporting job with a newspaper located just outside the Capital District. (I'll have more details a little later this month, once a few more i's are dotted and t's have been crossed.) The opportunity to work full-time in a daily, traditional newsroom—something I've never done—for a company committed to quality local journalism was too appealing to pass up.



If I were more entrepreneurially minded and had more tolerance for risk, I might have made a different call—there may well be many potential grants to chase and sponsors to court for a project like TL—but I think, at least at this rather early stage of my media career, I'm more interested in being a reporter/writer/editor than an administrator/executive.



I've got no plans to move away from the Collar City, so you still might see me out and about (though probably not at city-affiliated economic development agency board meetings). Please do say hi! It's been a privilege to do this work here. Thank you for your readership and support, which helped this project to continue for as long as it did.