Sentences with phrase «by upstate residents»

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That includes the suburbs and upstate, whose residents have often felt their needs get overshadowed by the city's.

There are many crosscurrents facing Republicans: the polarization of the electorate turned off by President Donald Trump, New York City domination of the state's political and economic landscape and an exodus of upstate residents who tended to vote more conservatively.

Brown is the sole upstate resident on the board, which was convened by the state Department of Labor at the behest of Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this year to review and recommend any increases in the wage for the fast - food industry.

A doctor described as the resident physician to the twisted upstate sex cult Nxivm has been charged by a state oversight board with illegally conducting human experiments.

In February, for example, the Siena Research institute asked voters whether lawmakers should get a pay raise if they enacted ethics reforms; New York City residents said yes by a 50 percent to 48 percent margin, while only 34 percent of upstate residents agreed.)

ALBANY — Officials in the state Department of Health were aware of concerns that the water in the upstate village of Petersburgh could be tainted with a toxic chemical in late 2014, but did not take action to protect residents until a few days ago, according to emails obtained by POLITICO New York.

«Now more than ever it's time to change Albany and end corruption, to overturn the SAFE Act, stand up for upstate residents and fight for our small businesses that are being weighed down by suffocating regulations.»

Both of New York's U.S. senators traveled upstate last month to voice support for efforts to address Lyme disease and other illnesses spread by deer ticks, including Powassan virus, a rare disease that has infected three Saratoga County residents this year, killing one of them.

The total population of the 50 counties that form upstate New York has declined by nearly 60,000 residents since 2010.

The results are drawing mixed reactions from upstate residents, most of whom said they were unaffected by the revitalization programs.

As part of a four - part collaborative series produced by public radio stations WBFO in Buffalo, WRVO in Oswego / Syracuse, WSKG in Binghamton and WXXI in Rochester, Chris Caya of WBFO News reports on how upstate residents feel about a multi-billion-dollar state effort to create jobs.

A broadband symposium organized by an upstate New York Congressman brought concerned residents and community leaders together with experts from state and federal government to discuss expanding high - speed internet in rural towns.

Other upstate cities have similarly lost residents over the past four years: Rochester decreased by 0.28 percent to 209,983; Syracuse fell 0.62 percent to 144,263; Binghamton decreased 2.27 percent to 46,299; Utica fell 0.68 percent to 61,332; and Poughkeepsie decreased 6.79 percent to 30,513.

Both of New York's senators traveled upstate last month to voice support for efforts to address Lyme disease and other illnesses spread by deer ticks, including Powassan virus, a rare disease that has infected three Saratoga County residents this year, killing one of them.

«On the other hand, it should be noted that New York City is the primary source of surplus state revenues — largely generated by the income tax on high earners (the so - called «millionaires» tax»)- but New York City residents do not directly benefit from the commission's proposed use of $ 1 billion of this surplus for property tax reductions for suburban and upstate New Yorkers.

In thematically distinct speeches at opposite ends of the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday unveiled elements of a 2017 agenda that reached out to a middle class empowered but angered by national political rhetoric, and to upstate residents who feel left behind by the post-recession recovery.