Tag: New York

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    A gerrymander for the House?

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    New York’s new maps draw criticism while boosting local incumbents New York’s Democratic-controlled Legislature adopted a new map (below)for upstate congressional districts, right, that shuffles the political terrain of the upper Hudson Valley’s three U.S. House members. Analysts predicted the new map would effectively cut the number of Republicans in the state’s House delegation to read more

    A gerrymander for the House?
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    Maps contain big changes for state Senate districts

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    By MAURY THOMPSONContributing writer   As state Sen. Daphne Jordan campaigns for a third term in office this fall, she might have to introduce herself to lots of new voters. The Republican senator’s hometown of Halfmoon in Saratoga County is one of only a few towns she currently represents that would remain in the newly read more

    Maps contain big changes for state Senate districts
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    Restoring the Batten Kill watershed

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    Groups band together to protect a river famous for its wild trout   The Batten Kill rushes under a covered bridge in the hamlet of Eagleville, N.Y. Photo by Joan K. Lentini.   By DON LEHMANContributing writer SALEM, N.Y. A man snorkeling in a shallow pool of water in remote Camden Creek is not a read more

    Restoring the Batten Kill watershed
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    In redistricting ruling, a glimmer of hope

    As this issue goes to press on the night of March 31, a state judge has just tossed out New York’s new congressional and legislative district maps, casting the state’s nascent election year into turmoil. Justice Patrick McAllister ruled that the new maps, passed by the Legislature’s Democratic majority in early February and signed into read more

    In redistricting ruling, a glimmer of hope
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    Long-serving agent of a Slate Valley lifeline

    GRANVILLE, N.Y. The Granville Sentinel was rooting for the hometown underdog. “In the gold watch voting contest of the Albany Journal for the most popular railroad station agent appears the name of J.H. Reynolds of this village, and who has received thirty-nine votes,” the Sentinel reported on Aug. 8, 1890. “Mr. Reynolds is not likely read more

    Long-serving agent of a Slate Valley lifeline
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    In New York’s new farm overtime rules, progress or ruin?

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    In New York’s new overtime rules, some see agriculture’s transformation — or its ruin   Stewart Ziehm tends to the cows at Tiashoke Farms, a dairy operation near Buskirk, N.Y., on a cold winter day. Joan K. Lentini photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. Labor and social justice activists are calling it a read more

    In New York’s new farm overtime rules, progress or ruin?
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    Pet rabbits find sanctuary at new Saratoga-area shelter

      Rabbit “foster mom” Brandy Caro, yoga instructor Jamie Lemnotis and yoga student Stephanie Lyons enjoy a moment with the rabbits after a Bunny Yoga class at Hop on Home, a rabbit rescue and adoption organization, at its space at Wilton Mall in Saratoga County. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer WILTON, read more

    Pet rabbits find sanctuary at new Saratoga-area shelter
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    Local House race could be bellwether

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    National parties eye Delgado’s seat in battle for Congress       U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, left, faces a potentially strong challenge from Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro, right, as he seeks a third term in New York’s 19th Congressional District.   By MAURY THOMPSONContributing writer   The Hudson Valley congressional race taking shape between read more

    Local House race could be bellwether
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    Robert Blackburn changed views of printmaking

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    Show at Hyde celebrates master printer Blackburn and those he inspired   Robert Blackburn’s “Refugees” (also known as “People in a Boat”) was completed about 1938, when he was still a teenager, and nearly a decade before he opened the printmaking workshop that would reshape his own art and the works of many others. He read more

    Robert Blackburn changed views of printmaking
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    A candidate tests his party’s appetite for reform

    Before Glens Falls native Charles Evans Hughes entered the race for New York governor in 1906, Republicans from Warren and Washington counties were lining up behind an early candidate from Saratoga County: state Sen. Edgar Truman Brackett. “Senator Brackett would make an ideal candidate for governor,” said Addison B. Colvin, a former state treasurer who read more

    A candidate tests his party’s appetite for reform