Sentences with phrase «upstate counties with»

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan will likely be unanimously nominated for attorney general at the GOP convention later this afternoon (assuming the governor vote finishes at some point), as Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci will end his long - shot bid to get on the ballot, according to a source familiar with the upstate lawmaker's thinking.

The latest version had a three - tiered phase - in, with New York City hitting the mark first in three years, Long Island and Westchester County after six and upstate after about eight years, according to rank - and - file legislators.

The counties with the oldest age profiles were all upstate.

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.

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.

Julia Walsh, with Frack Action, says she hopes that the governor will now act to stop the expansion or building of new gas pipelines in Westchester County, near the Indian Point Nuclear power plant, and upstate across Schoharie, Albany and Rensselaer counties.

State legislation enacted in 2013 that authorized construction of up to four upstate casinos also allowed Nassau and Suffolk counties to build gambling parlors with up to 1,000 video slot machines and table games such as roulette, baccarat and blackjack.

Raj, a bald smooth - talking public corruption hunter, was teamed with an unlikely partner, an upstate Orthodox Jew known as «Mo,» who was already well known in the New York City and Rockland County political scene.

The backing of the wage floor on the federal level comes after New York's state budget in April approved a measure to increase the state's minimum wage in New York City and the suburban counties to $ 15 over the next several years (upstate hits $ 12.50 and is then subject to an economic formula with the goal of eventually hitting $ 15).

Cuomo's office in a joint statement with Senate leaders, including Republican Dean Skelos, touted the recent upstate jobs numbers that showed a 2 percentage - point drop in joblessness in upstate counties between December 2012 and December 2013.

Overall, the county with the lowest unemployment is in upstate's Columbia County, which has a rate of 3.9 pecounty with the lowest unemployment is in upstate's Columbia County, which has a rate of 3.9 peCounty, which has a rate of 3.9 percent.

GOP US Senate hopeful Wendy Long is campaigning upstate, with plans to be in Syracuse, Rochester and Lakewood (for three press conferences, the last with Chautauqua County Executive / 2010 LG candidate Greg Edwards).

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.

The counties, though, are also pushing the state to spend most of the money on infrastructure upstate, putting the issue under a «must» for the coming legislative session, which begins on Wednesday with the state Assembly and Senate returning to the Capitol.

Sponsored by Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle, a Monroe County Democrat, the bill authorizes 20 stores, with at least five to be located upstate.

Some 9,593 arrests were made in New York City compared with 1,641 arrests upstate and 659 arrests on Long Island or in the suburban Westchester and Rockland counties.

Police in Erie County reported 1,154 violent crimes with a firearm in 2016 — more than any other county upCounty reported 1,154 violent crimes with a firearm in 2016 — more than any other county upcounty upstate.

The Empire Center, a fiscally - conservative government watchdog, reported last week the counties with the oldest age profiles are all upstate.

Two New York congressmen — Reps. John Faso and Chris Collins — have tried to bring around upstate members with a provision that would require state government pick up the county share of the Medicaid program.

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.

The program was the subject of an extraordinary showdown last week as Gov. Andrew Cuomo sparred with upstate House Republicans over an amendment to the now - dead American Health Care Act that would have stopped the state from charging county governments for Medicaid costs.

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.

The plan is one of the most comprehensive yet from the Westchester County executive, who is challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo's bid for a second term, and highlights an issue that both candidates say is a top priority: how to boost New York's business climate and increase jobs, particularly in upstate regions grappling with decades of economic malaise.

A study of three upstate counties of New York found fewer than 10 percent of polling places fully compliant with state and federal laws.

Empire State Development, and SUNY Polytechnic Institute, have joined with the New York Loves Nanotech group of local economic development agencies from upstate New York, including the Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership, to broaden our marketing outreach to the semiconductor industry.

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.

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 Thursday.

Gov. Paterson jetted off to Washington yesterday, deep - sixing a scheduled town hall meeting in upstate Broome County in favor of a photo - op with President Obama.

[1] In fact, the very source the authors cite puts the «average terrestrial rabies - associated PEP cost» at «$ 941.06, with a range of $ 440.21 to $ 1,884.97,» based on three - year study of five upstate New York counties.

But in relocating from Williamsburg to Columbia County in upstate New York seven years ago, the artist began infusing his nature - minded oeuvre with the natural landscape.

But in relocating from Williamsburg to Columbia County in upstate New York seven years ago, the artist began infusing his nature - minded oeuvre with the natural landscape... Consider how the optical waves on Black Betty refer back to the untouched cherrywood and, if you look at them from an angle, recede into the surface.