Sentences with phrase «get upstate»

I'm hoping we can find a weekend to escape and get upstate or somewhere scenic, but am also happy to be around during the fall.

Regardless of your political affiliation, I think we can agree, we need to fix the tax code and the regulatory mess in both D.C. and Albany, to get our upstate economy moving.

New York's congressional delegation is working to get an upstate post office named after a Hudson Valley soldier who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery during World War II.

Opening the door at the fair was Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who says more needs to be done to get upstate New Yorkers working.

He seemed not to know how to get upstate and campaign.

Regardless of your political affiliation, I think we can agree we need to fix the tax code and the regulatory mess in both DC and Albany to get our upstate economy going... People are tired of gridlock, they're tired of stagnation and they're tired of the blame game.»

«Tell your legislator to support Governor Cuomo's Tax - Free NY proposal, and get upstate back to work.»

«Once you get to Ithaca... you're starting to get upstate.»

Skipping over former Gov. Spitzer, we now got upstate's Dem.

Not exact matches

As I began pondering what type and size of RV to get, I noticed that every other driveway in our upstate New York community seemed to have some sort of RV or trailer parked in it.

At the end of the party, I got invited to Brooklyn for another party, and was also invited to a Jewish BBQ -LRB-?!?!) later this year in upstate New York.

I got my first sunburn recently too here in upstate NY!

Every summer as a kid in upstate New York, when the garden was coming up tomatoes, my family would pass them through the mill to get rid of skins and seeds.

Laugh all you want, but as someone who makes a lot of fires in the winter, it's really inspiring to think there could be a better way than scrounging wood from my neighbors upstate, or getting those sad little bundles from Stop and Shop.

With solutions like this upstate will continue to resemble Appalachia (forgot Spitzer got in trouble for being honest and making that comparison).

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, the 28 - year - old son of an addict who abandoned his family, wants his city in upstate New York to host the nation's first supervised injection facility, enabling heroin users to shoot illegal drugs into their bodies under the care of a nurse without getting arrested by police.

«Getting out the vote in this area for the lieutenant governor will be very important for her and will add to her winning margin,» said Joe Morelle, a key Cuomo ally upstate, the Democratic Assembly majority leader and Monroe County Democratic chairman.

After failing to get any offers the last two times around and dropping the minimum required bid by $ 300,000, the state has sold one of its empty upstate prisons: The 31 - acre Camp Georgetown in Madison County.

Cuomo, too, gets another ally in the upstate business community, which the governor has courted through tax policies and economic - development programs.

Here's Mayor Bloomberg's first Daily Show appearance in eight years, during which he swiped at upstate («you can't even get a bagel») and the Legislature (for taxing sliced bagels) and discussed the mosque controversy, which he says «will go away right after the next election.»

There'll be more than enough time to talk about politics in the future, but for now obviously the important thing is making sure that we get projects like high speed rail and as much funding for upstate New York.»

Yes but unfortunately upstate has to work under the state umbrella which means upstate gets to pay the same crazy state taxes that we all pay and then the locals get suffocated from state mandates, like the most generous Medicaid program in the country.

«Voters in this upstate district would also be most susceptible to the argument that Democrat reunification and a Democrat Majority in the Senate (and therefore give downstate control of the entire state government) would lead to NYC getting everything at the expense of upstate and Central New York,» the source said.

How upstate reaches $ 15 has been a point of debate, with some suggesting a link to inflation to others saying it could an economic study that determines when wage gets there.

They've got a city chair and an upstate chair and they're co-chairs of the statewide party.

Andy Cuomo wants to fulfill his family destiny and make his daddy proud and be president someday and fracking upstate New York is one of the bodies he's willing to crawl over to get there

Of course upstate gets about $ 6 billion dollars more then it pays in taxes from the rest of the state, primarily NYC and surrounding counties.

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

«This was not an easy decision to make because I have been so motivated to get to work for the people of upstate New York, but I look forward to joining all of you to help another good Democrat win next November,» Yandik said.

The chairman said he believes Cuomo was able to win re-election two years ago because his opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, only got 18 percent of the vote in New York City, though he carried almost all of upstate.

The NYC Health Department said «no» to goat yoga within the five boroughs, so you'll have to head upstate to get your furry fix.

This November, voters will get a chance to decide whether to expand gambling in upstate New York.

«We send more tax dollars upstate than we get in return,» Ms. Maertz said.

Besides money, Cuomo has been an active promoter of tourism to upstate New York, which gets almost nothing of the 54 million people that visit New York City, the most visited city in the nation.

Housing developers in NYC contribute huge amounts to upstate and Long Island Republican lawmakers, who will ensure that their giant tax break doesn't get touched.

A host of other special interests — ranging from upstate mayors and county executives to Mothers Against Drunk Driving to the NAACP — all lauded Cuomo's plan, pointing to everything from ride - sharing that gets drunks off the road to transit efforts that will help inner - city workers get to jobs.

«I want to invest $ 200 million in upstate airports, to make them state of the art, so we get more flights, more business coming into upstate New York.»

Meanwhile, those upstate say they deserve a better deal at the expense of New York City, because they are getting robbed.

Buffalo and other poorer cities will soon experience the sharpest cuts ever in the food stamp program if House Republicans get their way — and upstate food producers and advocates for the poor are equally upset about it.

«It's been a good run, I've given it my all, and it's simply time for me to hand off this tradition of service to someone else who, I hope, will be no less willing and able to keep heading back to the Capitol year after year, legislative session after legislative session, and floor debate after floor debate to constantly and steadily roll up their sleeves, get down in the trenches, stand on their principles, shout out their fundamental beliefs, and carry on the fight for upstate's rightful place in this government.»

The upstate debate will be sponsored by The Buffalo News and WNED - WBFO (not, it is worth pointing out, TWC News, which did issue an invite and also tried without success to get the governor to debate his primary opponent, Zephyr Teachout, but to no avail).

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan will likely be unanimously nominated for attorney general at the GOP convention later this afternoon (assuming the governor vote finishes at some point), as Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci will end his long - shot bid to get on the ballot, according to a source familiar with the upstate lawmaker's thinking.

Have to wonder how Dirty John Flanagan can continue to justify only a one year extension of Mayoral control... oh yeah, that ploy helps get Dirty John a lot of hedge fund Cheater School money for his cabal of upstate TEAPubs who want to mess with NYC!

Heather Briccetti, president of the Business Council of New York State, said there is a long «list of things that could have been done that didn't get done» that would have benefited businesses and the upstate economy.

Singh only won part of a 2012 bread - and - rolls contract at the county jail at the insistence of now - deceased Nassau County Legislature Presiding Officer Peter Schmitt, who wanted a local company to get the contract over an upstate business, Keating said.

Several proposals have been floated to get the Senate's Republican majority on board, including lengthening the wage's implementation over several years upstate and on Long Island, while enacting the higher minimum wage more quickly in New York City.

Its last call for anyone with ideas on how to use state dollars to transform the central New York economy as the Regional Development Council is looking to get all the input it can before applying to win some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's upstate revitalization money.

NYC will get screwed, not upstate.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who launched his AG campaign last weekend and headed out for his first - ever upstate swing, has already garnered sufficient support to get him on the ballot at the GOP's upcoming convention.

``... One of the main concerns, and we just talked about it, was, for me, and again I'm not speaking for anybody else, was the differential between upstate and downstate with regard to home health care, and I think we've gotten that pretty well worked out.»