Sentences with phrase «rural upstate communities»

That tough language follows Cuomo's declaration in his State of the State address three years ago that prisons should no longer be used to boost economic development in rural upstate communities.

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Living in a rural upstate NY community... who would have thought such a magazine existed... let alone another interracial lesbian couple with children!

«Providing efficient and reliable public transportation in rural communities is critical to increasing mobility and accessibility for upstate New Yorkers and to helping ensure future prosperity for their communities,» Cuomo said.

The idea that upstate New York is a «vast» bucolic region of rural space and «some towns» didn't sit well with upstate - based political reporters and elected officials, who (including yours truly) snarked in almost disbelief response that a former U.S. senator from New York could be so tone deaf about the region that yes, does include «vast, rural» areas, but also cities and suburban communities.

From Liz's link to the NYT: [Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, a Brooklyn Democrat, who sponsored the legislation in the Assembly, said, «The practice of inmate - based gerrymandering fundamentally undermines the principal of one person, one vote, by reallocating political power to a handful of upstate, rural communities.»]

A broadband symposium organized by an upstate New York Congressman brought concerned residents and community leaders together with experts from state and federal government to discuss expanding high - speed internet in rural towns.

A new law counts them in their home districts, and not in the communities where they're incarcerated — a change that the GOP says benefits Democrat - leaning downstate regions at the expense of more rural Republican - held upstate districts.

The Farmraiser is a benefit for a community dance festival that provides arts programming for rural children in upstate New York and supports visiting artists in creating collaborative and innovative work with and for the community.

From our early beginnings in the rural Village of Rouses Point in upstate New York to the vital impact we have made as the first non-profit to encourage and present the artists of the now thriving community of Bushwick, our journey as well as our mission remains unchanged: to create, promote and present collaborations among the visual, literary and performing arts, to connect emerging artistic communities and foster the imaginative energy in us all.

After years of servicing clients in the design of graphics & exhibitions, Bob decided to abandon the «BIG APPLE» and move upstate NY with his wife, to a rural community.

Downstate is packed with affluent, fashion - conscious consumers, while many upstate communities — rural villages and decaying industrial cities — are losing population and economic ground.