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State Conservative Party says Stec is preferred candidate for NY-21
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Posted: March 26th, 2025 under Congressional News, Northern NY News, Political News, State Government News, State Legislator News, Upstate New York.
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Upstate NY war hero removed from Army website after DEI ban
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Posted: March 26th, 2025 under Corruption in Gov't., National History, National News, Political News, Upstate New York, Veterans' News.
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State and municipal forestry projects in limbo after Trump administration freezes funding
Winooski had already removed about 30 trees from its Main Street corridor when it learned that the federal government had canceled the $1 million grant that would cover the trees’ replacement—130 new street trees. Click here for the VTDigger story
Posted: March 25th, 2025 under Congressional News, Corruption in Gov't., Environmental News, National History, National News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Northern New York state communities are feeling the impacts of reduced visitation
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Posted: March 24th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Border News, Business News, National News, Northern NY News, Political News.
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Assemblyman Billy Jones Recognized as NYSBDC’s ‘Legislative Small Business Champion’
Assemblyman Billy Jones (D-Chateaugay Lake) was recognized as the Legislative Small Business Champion by the New York Small Business Development Centers (NYSBDC) on Wednesday in Albany. The recognition highlighted his ongoing support for small businesses across the state, as well as his service on the Assembly Small Business and Agriculture Committees. “I am extremely grateful […]
Posted: March 22nd, 2025 under Business News, Northern NY News, Political News, State Legislator News.
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US to restrict Canadian access to historic Vermont library straddling northern border
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Posted: March 22nd, 2025 under Border News, Community Events, National History, National News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Vermont agriculture community reels from federal funding changes
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Posted: March 16th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Environmental News, National News, Northern NY News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Stec, Gray announce joint resolution to rescend Governor’s CO employment ban
Senator Dan Stec (R, C-Queensbury) and Assemblyman Scott Gray (R, C-Watertown) today announced a joint legislative resolution to rescind an executive order banning fired correction officers from all government employment. Senate Resolution B515 would eliminate Executive Order 47.3 and restore rights taken away from 2,000 correction officers who went on strike to protest unsafe working […]
Posted: March 15th, 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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$14.5 Million in State Aid for Malone, Keeseville
3/14/25 – Senator Dan Stec (R, C-Queensbury) announced that two North Country communities will receive nearly $15 million in state funding. The Village of Malone will receive $10 million in funding as the North Country winner of the eighth round of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative, and the Hamlet of Keeseville will receive $4.5 million as […]
Posted: March 15th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Business News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Political News.
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Program that sends local food to Vermont schools loses funding in Trump cuts
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Posted: March 14th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Education News, National News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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As US-Canada relations sour, Vermont businesses are facing boycotts
Canadians are shunning Vermont-made goods and canceling trips to the state. Click here for the VTDigger story
Posted: March 14th, 2025 under Business News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Cortland Standard, one of New York state’s oldest newspapers, closes
The article said its closure was due to declining readership and increasing costs, including an expected 25% tariff on newsprint. Seventeen employees lost their jobs. Click here for the Syracuse.com story
Posted: March 13th, 2025 under Business News, Community Events, General News, National News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Statewide News.
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Northern lawmakers blast Hochul’s CO employment ban
Federal agencies are now actively recruiting fired officers Click here for the Sun Community News story
Posted: March 13th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Political News, State Legislator News, Statewide News.
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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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