Sentences with phrase «upstate cities last»

Miner held a summit with the mayors of the biggest upstate cities last year and she says they continue to talk on a regular basis.

Portelli, 62, is a former Albany City School Board member who ran for mayor of the upstate city last year, also on the Green Party line.

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A version of the Senate's anti-sanctuary city bill has already been approved last year, with votes from moderate mainline Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Todd Kaminsky, George Latimer, Kevin Parker and Tim Kennedy (Democrats from upstate and suburban districts in the Assembly opposed the sanctuary state bill).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature last year phased in an increase that will eventually lead to a $ 15 hourly wage in New York City and a $ 12.50 wage upstate.

The last thing he or anyone wanted to do was to turn this upstate seat over to the New York City - dominated Senate Democrats, who raised taxes by $ 14 billion and shifted resources out of the Capital District when they were in the majority.»

Last week, a group of upstate legislators, led by Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, expressed concern in a letter written to Cuomo that lifting the perimeter rule would reduce the number of smaller commuter flights out of LaGuardia to underserved upstate cities like Buffalo and Rochester.

Public schools in the city of Yonkers will get an additional $ 25 million dollars in aid, but Cuomo had to abandon a last minute proposal to give an additional $ 75 million dollars to struggling upstate schools.

After a career in law enforcement in New York City, where she fought corruption and trained others in crisis and conflict management, Joyce St. George moved to the Catskills region of upstate New York, where she has lived for the last 30 years.

And nothing underscores the latter more dramatically than last week's news from the US Census Bureau: Out - migration from New York, virtually all of it from upstate, outpaced immigration, virtually all of it to New York City, for the first time since Cuomo became governor.

Bonacic introduced his own casino enabling legislation last month that would create up to five facilities upstate and place a moratorium on building New York City area - based casinos until 2019.

The New York City region enjoyed 2.2 percent increase in job growth over the last 12 months, while upstate New York grew at a slower rate, statistics from the state Department of Labor found.

Both Uber and Lyft have conducted an extensive public lobbying campaign over the last year to expand services, especially in upstate cities like Buffalo, which is being countered by an effort to block the measure by upstate taxi and livery companies.

By last month, when investigators subpoenaed Mr. Cuomo's office, the federal inquiry appeared to be focusing on the links between state officials and the sprawling investment New York has made, not only in Buffalo, but also in Syracuse and other struggling upstate cities.

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.

In his last election, Cuomo lost the upstate region, but won 77 percent of the city, enough to give him a 13 percent margin.

Last year, Sheehan won $ 5 million from the state's Financial Restructuring Board, a panel created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to deal with persistent fiscal stresses in upstate cities.

«Last time I think, especially New York City media, said, «oh he's an upstate hick» and they totally ignored me,» he said.

Late last year, the Public Service Commission announced it would hold a conference in June to determine the need for transmission lines that would bring needed megawatts of upstate power to the New York City area.

Buffalo and Rochester are not the first upstate cities to commit to the higher wage schedule: Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner announced last month that she would hike the pay of 60 city workers (who work more than 10 weeks per year) to $ 15 an hour, effective immediately.

It was discovered last week that the city is paying a year's rent to encourage the homeless to ditch the Big Apple's homeless shelters for apartments upstate.

Four New York City Democrats in the Assembly won seats on the City Council last November, and four upstate Republicans took county or town government posts.

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