Archive for 'Political News'
NY lawmakers push to make Daylight Saving Time permanent
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Posted: March 13th, 2025 under Political News, State Government News, State Legislator News, Statewide News.
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Should seniors only be eligible for rebate checks? NY lawmakers think so
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Posted: March 12th, 2025 under Political News, State Government News, State Legislator News, Statewide News.
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Schumer decries massive NOAA layoffs
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Posted: March 12th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Congressional News, Environmental News, General News, National News, Northern NY News, Political News, Statewide News.
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EPA to review landmark 2009 finding that greenhouse gases are a danger to public health
“We are driving a dagger through the heart of the climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal Click here for the CBS News story
Posted: March 12th, 2025 under Environmental News, National News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Social Issues.
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Common Sense Media supports Hochul’s ‘bell-to-bell’ smartphone restraints
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Posted: March 12th, 2025 under Education News, Political News, Social Issues, State Government News, Statewide News.
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Assemblyman Billy Jones: Statement on Governor’s Executive Order No. 47.3
“I strongly oppose the Governor’s recent Executive Order declaring a state of emergency at correctional facilities and barring terminated New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (NYSDOCCS) from future employment at other state, county or local government agencies. This is an absolute ridiculous usurpation of local control and an overreach of executive […]
Posted: March 11th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Political News, State Government News, State Legislator News.
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Agreement reached between DOCCS and NYSCOPBA, workers could return Monday
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Posted: March 9th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Community Events, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, State Government News, Statewide News.
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NYSCOPBA: New deal offered by state to striking prison staff is ‘illegal’
DOCCS said anyone off the job who returns to work on March 7 will not face consequences Click here for the MYNBC5 story
Posted: March 7th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Political News, State Government News.
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NY officials offer striking corrections officers a deal, bypassing union
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Posted: March 7th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, State Government News.
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Tariffs already hitting North Country tourism sector
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Posted: March 6th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Border News, Business News, Congressional News, National History, National News, Northern NY News, Political News.
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Resolving the corrections officers strike takes more than rhetoric, it needs legislative action
A Legislative Column by Senator Dan Stec (R, C-Queensbury) We’re now more than two weeks into the correction officer strikes happening across New York State. Thousands of dedicated men and women have risked, and continue to risk, their livelihoods and their health care for one reason: there has never been a less safe time […]
Posted: March 5th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Political News, State Government News, State Legislator News.
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Trump picks loyalist with no prosecutor history as U.S. attorney in Upstate NY
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Posted: March 5th, 2025 under Corruption in Gov't., Northern NY News, Political News, Upstate New York.
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Stec joins effort to end tax on overtime, tipped wages
March 3, 2025 – Albany – Senator Dan Stec (R, C-Queensbury) participated in a press conference calling for an end to the state tax on overtime and tipped wages. Given the increased cost of living due to inflation and the difficulties many New Yorkers face in making ends meet, ending this tax is a common-sense […]
Posted: March 4th, 2025 under Business News, Political News, State Legislator News.
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Texas Republican has beef with NY, seeks to change name of a New York Strip steak
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Posted: March 4th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Corruption in Gov't., General News, National News, Political News.
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Onondaga County’s first wind farm stirs controversy: Who has power over giant turbines?
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Posted: March 4th, 2025 under Environmental News, National News, Political News, Statewide News, Town Board News, Upstate New York.
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Assemblyman Billy Jones: Tariffs on Canadian Goods Could Cause Trade War
3/3/25 – Assemblyman Billy Jones News Release “I am disheartened by the federal administration’s decision to enact tariffs on Canadian goods starting at midnight. This will negatively impact our local transportation manufacturing sector, as well as both residents and local businesses because of our reliance on Canadian goods for our construction, agricultural and energy […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2025 under Border News, Business News, National News, Political News, State Legislator News.
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Trump says 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico to go ahead
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Posted: March 3rd, 2025 under Border News, Business News, Law Enforcement News, National News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Political News.
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Corrections officers fired as tentative deal fails to end wildcat strike
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Posted: March 3rd, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Community Events, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Peru News, Political News, State Government News, State Legislator News, Statewide News, Upstate New York.
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North Country leaders stunned by tariff deadline reversal
Confusion and dismay after announcements that Canadian tariffs would still begin March 4 Click here for the Sun Community News story
Posted: March 3rd, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, National History, National News, Northern NY News, Opinion, Peru/Regional History, Political News.
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A look at what happened in the US Government last week
March 1 – Click here for the MYNBC5 story
Posted: March 2nd, 2025 under National History, Political News.
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Prison guards on strike have a list of complaints. Does NY’s deal address them?
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Posted: March 2nd, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Political News, State Government News, State Legislator News, Statewide News.
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Gov. Hochul addresses corrections mediation agreement
Hochul said the “resolution is just the beginning” to address systemic issues Click here for the Sun Community News story
Posted: March 1st, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, State Government News.
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Dog Teather Law Advocates Address Clinton County Legislators
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Posted: February 28th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, County Government News, Northern NY News, Political News.
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Mediator for state, union announces tentative agreement to end prison strikes
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Posted: February 28th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Political News, State Government News, State Legislator News, Statewide News.
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North Country Chamber welcomes tariffs postponement
Canadian tariff paused again, but North Country impacts continue Click here for the Sun Community News story
Posted: February 26th, 2025 under Border News, Business News, National News, Northern NY News, Political News.
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