Sentences with phrase «most of the upstate»

Zephyr Teachout primaried Cuomo four years ago, carried most of upstate, but wound up with just 33 percent of the vote.

Most of our upstate cities have horrendously high child poverty rates, some higher than 50 percent.

Most of upstate's regions are pitching between 20 and 35 priority projects, but the Finger Lakes seems to be taking it slow - putting forward just 12 projects.

Not exact matches

The most immediate aim of the group, which calls itself «the Problem Solvers caucus,» was to stabilize the shaky individual health insurance marketplace, said Congressman Tom Reed, a Republican from upstate New York, who co-led the effort with Congressman Josh Gottheimer, a freshman Democrat from New Jersey.

«Most people here see the oilsands as some great evil,» he says of his upstate New York neighbours.

After all, we're talking about building in the middle of nowhere in upstate New York that most baseball fans are never going to visit.

The move would come as New York and most of the nation continues to battle what public health officials say is an epidemic of heroin and opioid addiction, an issue that has especially ravaged parts of upstate New York.

«Most of the prisons are located in upstate New York.

The compromise on the minimum wage is most acute upstate, where the floor will be increase to $ 12.50 and then have a «safety valve» to determine when it will hit $ 15, based on a Division of Budget study of the economy.

«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.

The Capital Region is an oasis of population growth in upstate New York since 2010, according to the most recent estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter, one of the most powerful and prominent members of Congress from upstate New York, has died at the age of 88, her office announced Friday morning.

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.

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.

He said in some parts of the state, including upstate New York, most taxpayers will benefit from the federal tax changes and the new, larger standard deduction.

This lack of broadband coverage was most acute in the eight upstate REDC Regions.

It would most likely serve to prove the popularity of the SAFE ACT among the majority of upstate counties and send the «message of necessity» back to the democratic party.

Since you made a generalized statement about down staters I'll make a generalized statement about upstate, Ralph your ill informed and most likely have no teeth, and are out of touch with electricity, SEE now does that feel nice.

When The New York Times Magazine asked Nixon the often - debated question of where upstate begins, the Democratic candidate cited Ithaca — about a four - hour drive from New York City and far beyond most commonly cited borders for the start of upstate.

The first spot touts the endorsements of the amendment from newspaper editorial boards both upstate and downstate (New York's largest and most prominent newspaper, The New York Times, urged a «no» vote in an editorial last month).

We have entire sections of upstate where the most capable people in the community have departed leaving basically rif - raf to govern themselves.

Cahill conceded Hein's statement that most upstate counties were included in the credit, but noted the original legislation defined «upstate» as west of Albany.

One of upstate New York's most powerful pols.

Republicans in the Senate wanted to tie mayoral control to strengthening charter schools, the Assembly wanted to link mayoral control to the routine exertions of sales tax authorization for most of New York's counties upstate and on Long Island.

He says in some parts of the state, including upstate New York, most taxpayers will benefit from the federal tax changes and the new, larger standard deduction.

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.

In 2012, that strategy brought us within one vote of a majority in the County Legislature, but in 2014 we lost ground when Albany passed the SAFE ACT after the shooting in Sandy Hook and gun control became the most powerful «single issue» in upstate NY.

Most of the grilling came from downstate lawmakers, although Republican Sen. Catharine Young, of upstate Olean, summed up criticism of the MTA's record when she asked: «How can we ask people to give up their hard - earned money for repairs and expansion of the system when it looks like nobody's watching the ship?»

Most of the support comes from the New York City region, with more upstate voters against the gun control provisions.

Dan is a native upstate New Yorker, spending most of his life in the Binghamton area before moving to Albany in 2010.

While most of their valuable properties are in New York City, developers directed almost two - thirds of their Senate donations to candidates in upstate and Long Island races.

Regionally, Cuomo remains popular in broadly defined areas in New York: Most voters in the suburbs and upstate areas hold a favorable view of him, while a whopping 72 percent of New York City voters do as well.

«I was born and raised in upstate New York and the chance to work for a Governor I respect and to be part of his ambitious agenda to create upward economic mobility for the middle class and give voice to those who need it most matters more to me than partisan politics,» Comella said.

Safety inspectors from the state Department of Transportation and the Federal Railroad Administration uncovered 95 defects in their most recent examination of rail cars and tracks across upstate New York.

Most of these unvisited counties are upstate (Putnam is debatably the exception), but that doesn't mean the governor hesitates to venture north of Bear Mountain.

«No amount of splashing around in the waters of the Adirondacks or sipping wine in the Finger Lakes can change the fact that New York is the most taxed, least business - friendly state in the nation,» said a second source close to Cox, referring to recent trips by Cuomo upstate.

The result is one of the most hostile business climates in the United States, loss of jobs and population, especially upstate, and personal income growth ranked 36 out of 50 states.

«But in any event, New York State is one of the great, most beautiful states in the union and had I won the governorship I would have done more for upstate than any governor who in fact was elected.

Downstate, where most of the pre-storm preparations took place, pretty much dodged a bullet, while upstate took a beating in the form of heavier - than - expected rain that caused rivers, streams and creeks to flood and cause what the governor deemed «devastating» amounts of damage.

It's clear that New York will lose two House seats in the next round of redistricting — most likely one upstate and one downstate, as is the tradition, although if the push for a nonpartisan commission is successful (seems doubtful at this point), that could change.

For now, the most vocal upstate support for Skelos has come from one of the lawmakers believed to be in line to replace him: Sen. Cathy Young.

Trump has said he would be well positioned to run a competitive general election campaign in New York, saying he would is one of the most popular people, perhaps ever, in upstate New York.

The plan will affect a larger number of state employees — about 28,000, most of whom are upstate — and is designed to include students who use work - study jobs to pay tuition and bills while attending classes.

The current minimum wage of $ 9, which was adjusted on Jan. 1 following a phase - in that began with a 2013 agreement, doesn't help most New Yorkers cover basic costs even in upstate cities like Buffalo, they write.

The counties, though, are also pushing the state to spend most of the money on infrastructure upstate, putting the issue under a «must» for the coming legislative session, which begins on Wednesday with the state Assembly and Senate returning to the Capitol.

Although about a third of House Democrats are boycotting the inauguration, most upstate House members will be there.

Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and confidant of Cuomo, as well as SUNY Polytechnic Institute's founding President and CEO Alain Kaloyeros and officials at some of upstate New York's most prominent development firms were charged in a federal complaint with allegedly engaging in two overlapping schemes involving bribery, corruption and fraud in the award of hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts and other official benefits.

Beyond money, the rewards he sought appeared to be power, prestige and, perhaps most of all, the fulfillment of a long - held dream: reinventing upstate New York as a Rust Belt Silicon Valley.

Last time the districts were redrawn, Republicans led the governing body and managed to skew the process in their own favor — leaving most of the underpopulated districts upstate, while the growing populations in the New York City region went unrecognized by a matching increase in proportional representation.

Not all of them were in the most obvious locations upstate, two were in New York City.