Month: July 2010

New York Celebrates 100 Years Of Number Plates

New York State introduced its new blue-and-gold numberplates in April. The redesign, the first one in a decade, was initiated by Governor Paterson’s (failed) attempt to get us all to re-register and thus pump cash into the state budget. Since

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  • 2nd Jul, 2010

Registration Numbers To Support Local Arts

Wayne Thiebaud, a California painter, first received acclaim in the early 1960s with his paintings of confections like ice cream cones, cakes and soups in thickly textured, bright colors. In the early 1990s, Thiebaud (pronounced “TEE-boh”) created a piece of

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  • 1st Jul, 2010

New York Gold Plates

County Clerks from Northern and Central New York, responding to apparent confusion over new state vehicle registration renewal forms that have begun to arrive in local mailboxes, are reminding drivers that they don’t need to replace their number plates with

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  • 1st Jul, 2010