Sentences with phrase «of upstate counties»

Cuomo ended up winning handily, though Teachout won majorities in a large number of upstate counties, including in the Capital Region.

«In many of our upstate counties, consumers will see pretty significant drops in premium costs.»

Stebbins said the lack of action here is the main cause for a spate of New York City hospital closures and a lack of access to care in a number of upstate counties, including 11 that have no OB / GYN services.

Sheldon silver is gone so they need to elevate someone to make the rubes fearful of... with leaders of upstate counties being made uncomfortable about the shift of Medicaid back onto each locality this may not give the TEAPublicans the traction they were hoping for.

All but a handful of upstate counties have some form of public transit system, mostly buses.

While predominantly Republican, the GOP conference isn't leaving anything to chance in the Southern Tier district, where its largest county, Broome, voted to re-elect Cuomo last year (one of only a handful of upstate counties that backed the incumbent Democrat over Republican Rob Astorino).

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.

But another contender, Gary Berntsen, has the support of four of the state GOP regional vice chairs and a number of upstate county chairs, too.

Malpass was endorsed last week by a slew of upstate county committees, including Wayne, Oneida and Essex.

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.

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.

The Assembly last month approved a two - year extension for mayoral control packaged with an extension of sales tax and other local tax provisions that impact upstate and suburban counties.

The Buffalo businessman carried 12 counties — all of them upstate — on Tuesday.

He flatly predicted that Long, who has strong support from upstate county chairs and the backing of the state's Conservative Party, was not the best candidate to take on Gillibrand.

We'll also be monitoring the dozen Assembly races across upstate New York and a handful of other interesting primaries including the Albany County DA's race and the Democratic primary challenges to Senators Neil Breslin and Tim Kennedy.

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.

Collins also defended his amendment that would shift the counties» share of Medicaid to the state — a move designed to appeal to his fellow moderate upstate House members and would only apply to New York.

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

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.

The de Blasio administration is illegally shipping homeless families off to unsuspecting, upstate towns with a year of free rent — forcing those municipalities to pick up the rest of their living expenses, Broome County officials said.

The January 2016 letter from Risa Sugarman, the state Board of Elections» chief enforcement counsel, accuses 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.

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.

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.

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.

The need for a study arose after the county began examining New York City's plan to reopen 23 of its shuttered Queens wells that dip into the aquifer system under geographic Long Island during its upstate aqueduct - repair project, Martins said.

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.

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.

H / T to Maggie Haberman, who notes GOTV has taken on a whole new meaning for the Democrats since Carl Paladino won the GOP gubernatorial primary last week — particularly when it comes to upstate, where the Buffalo businessman dominated on Sept. 14, winning some 90 percent of the vote on his home turf, Erie County.

The New York State Police, facing questions over a plan to divert troopers to New York City from upstate counties, have sought to restrict the release of information that would show staffing changes across the state.

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.

Collins said the move wasn't about exacting revenge on a political enemy and it was only to help struggling upstate counties with their portion of Medicaid costs.

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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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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.

Supporters said recent controversies involving prosecutors, including a reported federal probe of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office and allegations of wrongdoing against upstate St. Lawrence County District Attorney Mary Rain, have given the measure new momentum.

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.

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.

At the same time, Sen. Cathy Young of Olean insisted Republicans were united as a conference despite lingering concerns over Suffolk County Sen. John Flanagan ascending to the majority leader post over upstate lawmaker John DeFrancisco.

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.

Both the House and Senate bills include a provision by Rep. Chris Collins, R - Clarence, and Rep. John Faso, R - Kinderhook, that would bar the state from charging its upstate and Long Island counties for a share of Medicaid.

Among Republicans, they are looking at about a dozen senators, including Gregory R. Ball of Putnam County, Andrew J. Lanza of Staten Island, and Mark Grisanti, James S. Alesi and Roy J. McDonald, who represent upstate districts.

In deep - blue New York, Republicans took over House seats on Long Island, upstate near Syracuse and in the North County along the border with Vermont, and reelected Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm in the face of a multi-count federal indictment.