Sentences with phrase «more upstate counties»

These included Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal's bill to add e-cigarettes to the state's indoor smoking ban, a proposal that would seal details of marijuana arrest records, and a bill that would expand film tax credits to more upstate counties.

Not exact matches

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.

For example, state data from May 2013 to June 2015 shows that Erie County reports more sanitary sewer overflows than anywhere else upstate.

Governor Cuomo won the Democratic primary, but more than one third of Democrats who participated voted against him, and he lost more than half of the counties upstate, where fracking is a controversial issue.

Police in Erie County reported 1,154 violent crimes with a firearm in 2016 — more than any other county upCounty reported 1,154 violent crimes with a firearm in 2016 — more than any other county upcounty upstate.

He's the top elected leader in one of New York's more affluent counties, where a mix of high - tech industries, rural charm and proximity to New York City generally have shielded it from the economic stagnation still plaguing many upstate counties.

He visited Broome, Oneida and Dutchess counties to say the state was sending more resources upstate that had been deployed to New York City and Long Island, which were originally thought to bear the brunt of the storm.

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.

While Clinton won out over Trump in Onondaga County in the primary elections, upstate and central New York had a more mixed voting record, according to Politico, with the rural areas providing much of the Republican support.

«There are some upstate counties where more people are dying than being born,» he said.

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.

Brooks says the county provides the amount of money mandated by the state, and she says Monroe County is spending more than other upstate counties on those subscounty provides the amount of money mandated by the state, and she says Monroe County is spending more than other upstate counties on those subsCounty is spending more than other upstate counties on those subsidies.

The governor pushed for a major gun - control law that the State Legislature passed last year in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and it has proved unpopular in more conservative, rural counties upstate.

WASHINGTON (WBEN / AP)-- Desperate to lock down votes for their health care overhaul, House Republican leaders are seeking to shift more than $ 2 billion in Medicaid costs from upstate New York counties to the state government - a proposal Democrats quickly labeled the «Buffalo Bribe» and the «Knickerbocker kickback.»