Sentences with phrase «rural counties upstate»

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.

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With the Democratic Rural Conference straw poll just three days away, AG hopeful Eric Dinallo announced he has secured yet another endorsement from an upstate county chairman, bringing his tally to 21.

Gillibrand was addressing the annual convention of the New York State Rural Democratic Conference, which represents and supports Democrats in 47 upstate counties.

Under Cuomo's plan, $ 700 million would go toward a new hospital in Brooklyn (or the financing of a new hospital), $ 400 million would go to rural hospitals in upstate New York, and $ 300 million would go to health providers specifically in Oneida County.

$ 300 million would have gone to health providers in Oneida County, and $ 400 million would have been set aside for struggling rural hospitals in upstate New York.

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.

Residents of two rural upstate New York counties — Chenango and Schoharie — have voiced their opposition to a plan to build a natural gas pipeline through their hometowns.

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.

In the 2014 gubernatorial primary, the counties with the least voter enthusiasm tended to be rural and located upstate.

[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.

They are also growing in inner - ring suburbs and rural areas, from Montgomery County in suburban Washington, D.C., to Broome County, N.Y., in rural upstate New York.