Sentences with phrase «only upstate county»

Onondaga County was not the only upstate county considering a raise for its top official in recent years.

And Erie is hardly the only upstate county where the fiscally and demographically absurd passes for near normal.

Erie and Niagara Counties are the only upstate counties to have a Silver Alert System in place.

Not exact matches

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 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.

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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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).

The «upstate region» defined here excludes Columbia County, whose northernmost point is only 20 miles from Albany.

Additionally, these numbers include only donations made to state - level committees, and do not examine several five - and six - figure donations that unions made to upstate county committees in an attempt to indirectly aid Senate Democratic candidates.

Years later in her 2006 race against Republican unknown John Spencer, the only upstate jurisdiction she lost was sparsely - populated Hamilton County in the Adirondacks.

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.

De Blasio and his operatives made the decision — now under investigation — to heavily use upstate county party committees to raise money in 2014 for Senate Democrats only after they feared the governor was not prepared to spend what he promised, sources on all sides of the matter said.

In a statement, Business Council President Heather Briccetti pointed to the rest of the state recording a net job growth of 9,100 in the last year — only 14 jobs or so created each month per upstate county.

Those two plants could be the only nuclear facilities left upstate if the FitzPatrick plant in Oswego County, owned by Entergy, closes early next year as planned.

Thirteen upstate counties — Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chenango, Columbia, Delaware, Greene, Madison, Montgomery, Schoharie, Seneca, Steuben, Washington, Wyoming — have only one certified practitioner, the data shows.

[38] Paladino won all eight counties in the Buffalo media market but only a few counties outside of that region, all of which were rural upstate counties.

The amendment only affects upstate and Long Island counties.

For some reason I've become obsessed with NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's recent order ending «English - only» elections in ten upstate counties by applying a federal law enacted to ensure voter participation by American citizens of Puerto Rican heritage that are illiterate in English.

But it's only a matter of time, he said, before all upstate counties will need to come into compliance to ensure every defendant is arraigned with counsel regardless of the time, including nights and weekends.

Even with the two methadone clinics in Onondaga County, only 10 of the state's 95 methadone clinics are located in upstate.