Sentences with phrase «upstate regions with»

The Upstate Revitalization Initiative will feature three pots of $ 500 million apiece to be paid out over five years for the three upstate regions with the best economic plans.

Not exact matches

Replacing outdated, polluting manufacturing with an environmentally conscious natural and organic foods manufacturing plant is a welcome change for the region, and Hudson River Foods co-founders Donna and Dan Ratner are committed to their new home and in helping to drive jobs and economic growth in the upstate New York region.

While lobbying to bring ride - hailing to upstate, Uber often noted that Buffalo was the only region with a National Football League team that didn't have the service.

How can a seemingly solid business like Tops Markets, with a strong market share in the Buffalo Niagara region and a solid presence across upstate New York, be in such financial trouble?

Heastie promised he would familiarize himself with upstate — both geographically, and from a policy standpoint — pledging a tour of the region as soon as he was able to break free from Albany.

As he undertakes a tour of different upstate New York regions, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in an interview on Tuesday said Gov. Andrew Cuomo assured him a component of the SAFE Act would ultimately be put in place despite a two - way agreement with Senate Republicans.

The proposed minimum is even further out of line with prevailing wages in upstate regions.

The Senate is narrowly divded 32 - 30 and with so many prisons in the upstate region, the law will have a major impact on the size and shape of state legislative boundaries.

A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday found Gov. Andrew Cuomo with a 47 percent job approval from New York voters, with a negative 47 percent disapproval rating among voters in the upstate region.

Most of the support comes from the New York City region, with more upstate voters against the gun control provisions.

News this week of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's Upstate Revitalization Plan — a competition among seven upstate regions for $ 1.5 billion in economic development, with three ultimate $ 500 million winners — has Utica - area Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi cautiously optimistic.

For upstate economic development, seven regions would have until July 1 to submit a proposal for using the $ 500 million, with three winners to be selected.

In a call with upstate New York newspapers on Monday, Cuomo said the region will have a «serious problem» if the governments do not merge.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled an agreement with major technology firms that will result in a $ 4.4 billion investment in New York and create or retain about 6,900 jobs in the upstate region.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's re-election victory did not come with help from large swaths of the upstate region.

Sources have also speculated that DeFrancisco might try to cut the same sort of deal with Flanagan, though upstate GOP chairs are pushing very hard to see the position return to their region.

Cuomo wants to start with three casinos upstate, with one possible in the Catskills region.

Clinton has focused a lot of attention on the upstate region lately, making multiple in - person visits — with more planned before primary day — and also dispatching her husband to campaign on her behalf.

Four years after Cuomo promised a jolt to the upstate economy with the expansion of state - sanctioned gambling, state regulators gave licenses to three for - profit operators to open full - blown casinos in regions from the Finger Lakes to the southern Catskills.

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.

Young children in Western New York suffer from the highest rate of lead poisoning in the upstate region — a rate that's more than three times higher than that in Flint, Mich., where a cost - driven switch to an alternate water system left 4 percent of children tested with signs of lead exposure.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters in Buffalo that he was not «overly optimistic» after speaking with federal officials on receiving assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deal with the flooding across the upstate region.

The report showed that regional growth remained uneven, with downstate regions experiencing the highest employment growth while most upstate regions saw declines.

Other upstate regions that performed well were Central New York, the Southern Tier and the Mohawk Valley, all with annual increases exceeding 4 percent.

That includes customers of National Grid, which is in the final stages of negotiations with staff at the PSC over new rates for gas and electric customers in the Capital Region and across upstate.

Job growth in the upstate region has dipped far below the national average, with a rate of 2.7 percent in growth from December 2010 to December 2016, compared to 11 percent nationally during that time.

Instead, they say to **** with the unemployed and impoverished regions of upstate; let the cesspool rot, they cry.

With Assini, we talk about upstate jobs, health care, and the issues impacting the Rochester region.

The Capital Region will compete against six other upstate councils (not including Buffalo Billion recipient Western New York) for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's latest competition, which will coincide with the fifth iteration of his annual Regional Economic Development Council awards.

On Thursday, however, Mr. Cuomo defined six upstate regions that could compete for them, including two areas where local Indian tribes have disputed exclusivity compacts with the state involving gambling.

Their numbers track the first half of 2015, and show that most regions of the state, including upstate, grew slightly, with the exception of the Southern Tier, which showed a 0.1 % drop in job growth from January through June.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued the roll out of his 2015 agenda Tuesday with details of an infrastructure plan that includes upgrading New York City region airports to providing broadband for upstate rural areas.

Maertz, an insurance litigation and trial attorney, said she wants to see more money come back to Suffolk from the state, adding that Long Island effectively is subsidizing other regions, especially New York City with the MTA payroll tax, as well as areas upstate.

With just three weeks to go until the April 1 budget deadline, Cuomo revealed granular details of his $ 10 billion spending plan for upstate, which includes two economic development competitions that would award approximately $ 90 million apiece to the 10 regions of the state.

With the approval of Referendum # 1, the Upstate New York Gaming and Economic Development Act would permit up to four new casinos in the Catskills, Capital Region and the Southern Tier in upstate New York.

The unemployment rate also compares favorably with those in most other upstate cities, with only Glens Falls, at 5.3 percent, and Ithaca, at 4.8 percent, posting lower rates than the Capital Region.

With $ 9 billion in investment by GlobalFoundries at the Luther Forest Technology Campus in Malta already in its hands, the Cuomo administration has been quietly planting the seeds for similar investments in other upstate regions.

Their numbers track the first half of 2015, and show that most regions of the state, including upstate, grew slightly, with the exception of the Southern Tier, which showed a 0.1 percent drop in job growth from January through June.

The Bronx Democrat toured upstate New York and Long Island shortly after becoming speaker in 2015 as a way to connect with the different regions of the state.

In order to ensure that individuals with developmental disabilities and mental health issues, and our seniors have a safe and comfortable place to call home, the IDC calls for: (1) a $ 40 million fund to incentivize housing for middle - and low - income seniors; (2) a $ 7,500 tax credit for repairs to seniors» homes where the resident can not afford the cost of repairs; (3) the creation of a $ 25 million housing disability fund to leverage private financing to develop or retrofit up to 1,400 housing units for people with mental or developmental disabilities; and (4) setting aside $ 10 million of existing Medicaid redesign team supportive housing funds for the upstate region.

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.

During a presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, he also called the region a «disaster» and blamed the former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State for «failing» to «bring back jobs to upstate New York.»

In response to the landscape and sky of the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, he began to explore gradient fields of blue, with ribbons of other colors as punctuation.

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