Sentences with phrase «in upstate counties»

«In upstate counties, this trend is extremely acute,» wrote NYSAC.

The need for Medicare is more acute in upstate counties that are seeing the percentage of their senior population rise above 20 percent, said Gail Myers, deputy director of Albany - based Statewide Senior Action Council.

The provision would take the total available credit for filming in upstate counties to 40 percent, without altering the cost of the original credit program for taxpayers.

Eliminating corporate income taxes for manufacturers in upstate counties — including Sullivan and Ulster, but not Orange — is intended to help depressed areas of the state.

New York Republican State Committee Chairman Edward F. Cox claimed the unemployment rate is rising in upstate counties, something Republicans intend to remind voters about in the 2018 race for governor.

It indicates there's not a whole lot of interest in enforcing this in our upstate counties.»

And is there «not a whole lot of interest in enforcing this» in upstate counties?

Sources say the leading plan would raise the current minimum wage of $ 9 per hour to $ 12.50 in upstate counties by 2021 followed by an economic study to determine whether the wage level should keep rising to an eventual cap of $ 15 per hour, possibly by 2023.

Cuomo's office in a joint statement with Senate leaders, including Republican Dean Skelos, touted the recent upstate jobs numbers that showed a 2 percentage - point drop in joblessness in upstate counties between December 2012 and December 2013.

Cuomo has implied that the impact of Medicaid spending cuts would be felt only in upstate counties and on Long Island — the same parts of the state that would stop contributing to the costs of the program under the House GOP bill.

The provision takes the total available credit for filming in upstate counties to 40 percent, without altering the cost of the original credit program for taxpayers.

He voted against seven bills that would either lengthen hunting seasons or in upstate counties or expand the variety of firearms that can be legally used, and opposed a measure that would let Cornell students older than 21 take a handgun safety course designed for minors.

These projects will deploy broadband across nine REDC Regions, addressing unserved and underserved areas in every upstate county as well as Long Island.

An audit by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has found that hundreds of inmates in upstate county jails received more than $ 500,000 dollars in improper benefits.

Not exact matches

Interestingly, Marist shows Paladino and Cuomo running neck - and - neck upstate (43 - 43), despite the fact that the Buffalo businessman took some 94 percent of the vote in his home base of Erie County in the GOP primary.

«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.

Turner, one of three Republicans who will face off in the June 26 primary for the right to run on Row B against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this fall, is making his first return upstate since last month's GOP convention in Rochester when he, attorney Wendy Long and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos were all voted onto the ballot.

Zach said Erie County Democratic Chairman Len Lenihan has predicted AG Andrew Cuomo, the presumptive Democratic gubernatorial nominee, will attend Obama's speech and asked Paterson if he's angry at the president for «snubbing» the governor during his last trip upstate (to HVCC in Troy).

The Republican - controlled Senate on Wednesday hopes to put the controversy surrounding paid stipends behind them, backing legislation that would speed up ride hailing in upstate and the suburban New York City counties before departing the state Capitol for the weekend.

The ride hailing provision approved in the state budget expands services to upstate and suburban counties outside of New York City.

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.

... But other issues — like the sales tax extensions for suburban and upstate counties set to expire in November — are highly likely to come up.

The measure comes after Gov. Andrew Cuomo has traveled the state to call for a reduction in gang violence through the addition of State Police personnel in Suffolk County and a handful of upstate cities, including Albany and Rochester.

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.

Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci is still in the race, according to Tony Casale, a former assemblyman, who is advising the upstate lawmaker on his nascent (and longshot) statewide run.

The website of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said Bell was released from the maximum - security Shawangunk Correctional Facility in upstate Ulster County on Friday.

A January 2016 letter from Risa Sugarman, the state Board of Elections» chief enforcement counsel, which was leaked to the Daily News in April, accused de Blasio and his team, including top aide Emma Wolfe, of purposely violating election law by routing donations to three upstate senate candidates by using county committees to avoid donation limits.

Five upstate counties already receive full funding for legal services from the state, the result of a lawsuit that state officials settled with the New York Civil Liberties Union in 2014.

Soon after the payments, Pasarell — a lawyer who unsuccessfully accused an upstate county legislator of stalking her — started volunteering for two of Lopez's political enemies in Brooklyn.

Statistics tell us that the upstate New York counties are in deep trouble.

A state Elections Board enforcement counsel accused de Blasio and his aides of funneling large contributions from unions and other donors through county Democratic committees to three State Senate candidates upstate in 2014 in an unsuccessful party effort to retake control from Republicans.

But he believes the right Republican could do well upstate and in key population centers like Long Island's Suffolk County.

Aides to the mayor, in aiding Democratic candidates, directed large - dollar contributions to county Democratic committees in upstate races, which then turned around and transferred the money to individual candidates.

Perhaps most importantly, the counties are pushing for using bank settlement funds for upstate road and water infrastructure projects and have the state invest in clean water infrastructure.

Trump intends to nominate Acting U.S. Attorney Grant Jaquith to serve as the top federal prosecutor in a 32 - county region of upstate that includes Syracuse.

But there also hasn't been a speaker from upstate in years — other than James Tallon, of Broome County, who held the post in an acting capacity for three days in 1991 in between Mel Miller's felony conviction and Weprin's election.

Judge Elaine Slobod, of Orange County Supreme Court in upstate New York, granted partial summary judgment March 12 for Wah - chung Hsu, who once lived in the hamlet of Highland Mills, saying in court documents that Wyckoff was in breach of contract when it did not pay him severance after firing him.

Keith Johnson, 46, was pronounced dead after he was found Sunday in a wooded area in the upstate town of Shandaken in Ulster County.

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The latest version had a three - tiered phase - in, with New York City hitting the mark first in three years, Long Island and Westchester County after six and upstate after about eight years, according to rank - and - file legislators.

Kim Rogers, 61, of upstate Hilton, said she received a ticket in the mail Nov. 6 for an expired vehicle inspection issued from the Nassau County agency.

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.

NYPAN believes that Cuomo can be beaten, he lost most upstate counties to Zephyr Teachout in 2014, and now the subway and suburban railroad crisis has eaten into his support in the downstate areas which were his stronghold in 2014,» Schwartz said.

However, the presence of any potentially disease - causing organisms in drinking water supplies is of concern, particularly to upstate communities that receive water from that part of the Catskill / Delaware system that has not been treated by the City's UV disinfection facility in Westchester County.

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.

The poll, which surveyed voters in 52 upstate counties, found most upstate residents believe the state is headed in the wrong direction, 59 percent to 34 percent.

The Assembly last month approved a bill that extended mayoral control for two years packaged with the extension of sales and other local taxes — many of which impact districts in upstate and suburban counties that are represented by Republicans in the Senate.

Twenty - eight counties have received a major disaster declaration for the mid-March blizzard that blanketed parts of upstate New York, a step toward recouping millions of dollars in costs from the federal government, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino in a video released on Thursday decried the closure of major upstate businesses like Alcoa and criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to increase the state's minimum wage to $ 15 in the coming years.