Sentences with phrase «from upstate areas»

He says the latest census number show the state lost population overall, due to migration from upstate areas.

The Republican conference has seven freshman members, five of whom come from upstate areas.

He said the latest census numbers show the state lost population overall because of migration from upstate areas.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has embarked on an unprecedented campaign to put the stamp of the State Police on New York City, rerouting troopers to city airports and toll plazas from upstate areas that rely on them and bewildering some of the officials charged with carrying out his orders.

Most Republicans in the state Senate come from the upstate area.

Not exact matches

If you are in the upstate NY area, you can buy pak dong from Pucker's Gourmet; they are at many farmer's markets around the area.

It's in Redding, the sunniest city in California, and it's only a two - hour drive north of Sacramento and three hours from the Bay Area located in upstate California.

Cuomo has made a point of focusing on the Buffalo area, much to the chagrin of some other upstate municipalities that wouldn't mind a little more love from the gov.

A reader forwarded this fundraising appeal from Sen. George Maziarz in which the Buffalo - area Republican's campaign committee slams the Democrats for «an astounding level of Albany dysfunction» and accuses them of forgetting upstate New York.

The downstate region, dominated by New York City, has been growing much faster than upstate (everything north of the metropolitan transportation district)-- and the slowest growing upstate metro areas are in Central New York and the Southern Tier, which would benefit most from the issuance of long - delayed state regulations allowing the use of hydraulic fracturing in shale gas production.

The conclusion is forgone that one congressional seat will evaporate from the NYC area, and another from upstate.

At the governor's request, the cash - strapped MTA last year wrote a $ 4.9 million check to help bail out three upstate ski areas that were hurting from warm weather.

GOP sources told The Post that Marc Cenedella, 41, a Yale and Harvard business - school graduate and native of upstate Fredonia who is believed to be worth about $ 150 million, is «seriously considering» running against Gillibrand — a flip - flopping congresswoman from the Albany area who was initially appointed to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2009 before winning election to a remaining two - year term in 2010.

Cities and regions in New York state submitted four proposals in total — a downstate bid from New York City and Westchester County, an upstate bid from the greater Albany area, a joint bid from Buffalo and Rochester and a central New York bid from the Syracuse and the Mohawk Valley region.

four proposals in total — a downstate bid from New York City and Westchester County, an upstate bid from the greater Albany area, a joint bid from Buffalo and Rochester and a central New York bid from the Syracuse and the Mohawk Valley region.

Tom Precious: «The administration statement, offering threats and olive branches of sorts, served one purpose: It signaled areas of the budget likely still open, from a proposed increase in the minimum wage to the $ 1.5 billion upstate fund.»

«With the attention that there has been on the North Country and Governor Cuomo's initiatives and efforts to highlight the value of the North Country and this area that having an assembly person who is in the majority, but from up here, it will help to draw attention to the needs of upstate.

The 2002 deal gave the Senecas an exclusive right to operate casino gambling in a sprawling area of upstate: all land to the west of Route 14, a state road that runs from Sodus Point on Lake Ontario to the Pennsylvania border just south of Elmira.

New York is a historically blue state in presidential and gubernatorial election years, though Republicans from predominantly white areas of upstate and Long Island have often controlled the State Senate.

A Times Union analysis also found that some of the most economically struggling areas of the state are getting little from START - UP — a program originally intended to benefit upstate.

The annual comprehensive report from Cuomo's main economic development apparatus was mandated last year by the Legislature amid increased criticism of the governor's efforts to boost business across the state, especially in distressed upstate areas.

A highly knowledgeable Senate insider said yesterday that «far more of the [GOP] members are in play than anyone realizes, including some surprising names from conservative upstate areas.»

Congressman Faso represents a vast area of upstate New York covering 11 counties and stretching from Vermont to Pennsylvania.

EDITORIAL BY CARL GOTTSTEIN JR. (From Albany, NY - area) We lost the battle, but the Spirit of 1776 is alive and well in upstate New York.

Two percent is from the New York City area, 5 percent from other upstate communities, and 3 percent from out of state, including the Washington, D.C., region.

The city of Oswego faces many of the same economic challenges facing cities all over upstate New York, including plant closings and the flight of you, educated adults from the area.

The six Republicans being targeted by Mr. Cuomo are Lee Zeldin of Long Island and five from upstate: John J. Faso, from the Hudson Valley; Elise Stefanik, from an Adirondack district; Claudia Tenney, in Central New York; Tom Reed, who represents a swath of Western New York; and Chris Collins, an early Trump supporter from the Buffalo area and a frequent foil of Governor Cuomo's.

Everyone from DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to Gov. Andrew Cuomo has insisted there was no way of knowing Irene would have such a significant impact on upstate while leaving far less of an imprint on downstate areas like Long Island.

President Donald Trump in a Wall Street Journal interview this week seemingly suggested residents in struggling upstate communities abandon their homes and move to more prosperous areas in order to get jobs — drawing concern from Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney.

The idea that upstate New York is a «vast» bucolic region of rural space and «some towns» didn't sit well with upstate - based political reporters and elected officials, who (including yours truly) snarked in almost disbelief response that a former U.S. senator from New York could be so tone deaf about the region that yes, does include «vast, rural» areas, but also cities and suburban communities.

But now the group wants the state to turn its attention from the New York City area to the crumbling upstate infrastructure.

We think that an event in upstate New York has the potential to draw people from the downstate area, from New England, bringing people for hotels, they're going to have an economic impact, you know, that would be persuasive.»

Although Hawkins's running mate, Gloria Mattera, is from Park Slope and once ran against Marty Markowitz for borough president, the bulk of the New York Green Party membership is from upstate, with concentrations in urban areas.

Inmates are, generally, from urban downstate areas that elect Democrats but are incarcerated in rural upstate areas that elect Republicans.

There's been an unusual focus on upstate New York among top state politicians from the downstate area in recent weeks.

Now she and her cohorts have their eyes set on an upstate New York congressional seat, in an area she neither knows nor has any connection to, as a platform from which to push their leftist agenda nationally.

Nevertheless, this Latino group sets a very good framework for Cuomo and the transtion team he put together that has Latinos from down state but few from the upstate region, and far upstate areas like Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo.

Those proposals include a $ 500 million investment in broadband Internet access in rural upstate areas, the creation of an infrastructure bank, using $ 500 million from the state's surplus to further provide incentives to local governments to consolidate and share services and the Global NY initiative, meant to promote overseas trade of state businesses.

A Times Union analysis found that some of the most economically struggling areas of the state are getting little from START - UP — a program originally intended to benefit upstate.

The first issue activists and mostly Republican legislators point to is the SAFE Act, the 2013 gun control bill that split voters and lawmakers from rural upstate areas from their brethren in New York City and its suburbs.

Maertz, an insurance litigation and trial attorney, said she wants to see more money come back to Suffolk from the state, adding that Long Island effectively is subsidizing other regions, especially New York City with the MTA payroll tax, as well as areas upstate.

«Far more of the [GOP] members are in play than anyone realizes, including some surprising names from conservative upstate areas,» a «highly knowledgeable Senate insider» told Dicker.

The two ride - hailing services are now prohibited from operating outside the New York City area and have long wanted state permission to move into Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester and other upstate cities.

There has been an unusual focus on upstate New York among top state politicians from the downstate area in recent weeks.

The shooting death of one escaped killer brought new energy to the three - week hunt for his jailbreak partner as helicopters, search dogs and hundreds of law enforcement officers converged on a wooded area 30 miles from the upstate New York prison that...

«New York needs to reform our brownfields program and any help that we get from the federal government to revitalize those areas will go that much further to restoring the upstate economy,» said Nadeau.

A region of upstate New York came to be known as the «burned - over district» because so many movements, cults, evangelists, and enthusiasts had worked the area or emerged from it.

They are also growing in inner - ring suburbs and rural areas, from Montgomery County in suburban Washington, D.C., to Broome County, N.Y., in rural upstate New York.

With so many people coming in from out of the area, not all of them are familiar with the fact that it's fairly standard in upstate New York for apartments to require Amherst, NY Renters Insurance of their tenants.

Sixty - five individuals from the New York area, including New York City, upstate NY, New Jersey, and Connecticut, attended the conference, plus representatives from as far away as Texas and Israel.