Syracuse, N.Y. — Buffalo may see a 25% property tax increase. Albany has frozen all hiring to cut costs. Rochester faces a record $131 million budget deficit.
It’s a grim picture for many of upstate New York’s big cities. But in Syracuse, the financial outlook at the moment is pretty good.
As Mayor Sharon Owens prepares her first city budget, she expects to avoid a tax rate hike, an eye-popping deficit or the kind of testy political fight that erupted last year…