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Gov. Kathy Hochul took a victory lap as she revealed Wednesday that all eligible migrants outside New York City have applied for work authorization — but she couldn’t say how many have actually been approved. Hochul said the 876 eligible migrants of the 2,100 migrants being housed outside New York City have applied for work authorization. Several hundred of the 2,100 are children, and others aren’t eligible to work.

A New York teen is facing 30 criminal charges for allegedly driving a stolen SUV into a home earlier this month, resulting in a massive gas explosion that displaced multiple residents and sent first responders ducking for cover. The residence in Oneida was decimated by the early-morning Sept. 9 blast, which sent towers of orange flames and ash into the sky and reduced the emergency crews at the scene to flailing rag dolls as they struggled to take cover, body camera footage obtained by NewsChannel 9 shows. Several officers were forced to cower behind a fire truck “while debris fell...

Upstate New York has become one of the most concentrated hubs of rising Covid-19 cases in the U.S., driven in part by a highly contagious sub-variant that was recently identified, according to health officials and researchers.

State GOP Chairman Drew McKissick, who defeated the MYSCGOP-supported candidate, pro-Trump Attorney Lin Wood, said, “These are people who want to turn the local party organization into their own personal hobbyhorse, and that is not our mission.” He also said, referring to the takeover of Greenville GOP by MYSCGOP, “It will fall into a state of disrepair, become a complete dumpster fire and essentially be a leper colony for the next year and a half.” It has also been said that McKissick implied that the state GOP was ready to support rival GOP organizations in Greenville county created by “sane...

Several New York sheriffs say they refuse to enforce New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s cap on the number of people who can gather for Thanksgiving. A sheriff in Erie County announced Friday that he has no plans to enforce the rule saying the “longstanding family traditions” are at the heart of a America and shouldn’t be interrupted by Cuomo’s “mandates.”

On Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a temporary emergency measure in New York’s battle against the new coronavirus pandemic. The state would borrow unused ventilators from upstate, which has seen far fewer cases of the virus per capita than downstate, and lend them to overwhelmed hospitals in the New York City region, where the life support devices are in short supply. “I’m not going to let people die because we didn’t redistribute ventilators,” the governor said. As Cuomo has repeatedly noted, the virus is expected to travel across the state like a wave. Today, New York City is short of...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The offices of the Onondaga County District Attorney and the state Inspector General are investigating SUNY Upstate Medical University. Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said his office is working closely with state Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott. He would not say what specific issues the investigation is focusing on. "I don't have a time frame, but I like to move things along expeditiously," he said. Upstate has been embroiled in controversy in recent months over a $660,500 severance agreement with its former hospital CEO and the departure of a senior vice president who quit after news...

MAGA!

First time ever that I signed up as stb 56 yr old female, naturalized citizen originally from Canada to work the polls. I was flanked by two "experienced" Democrats who had worked the polls for an eternity, native U.S. citizens.

We should have seen this coming. There is no doubt that this was the next logical step. Once the Gender Dysphoria camel had his/her/it’s nose inside the tent, we could expect nothing less than the whole camel. Now, as there is a battle over where people can use the restroom heating up, a mainstay in the development of girls has now decided that it would denounce the specialness that is womanhood. WNYT reported last month

Here is an expanded fourth item from my "Albany Insider" column from Monday's editions: Carl Paladino struck out Friday in his bid to get the state Republican party to formally endorse Donald Trump last Friday at its convention in Buffalo because the bombastic Buffalo businessman and his people did a bad job organizing, several GOP insiders said. (SNIP) Even a number of county chairmen who are backing Trump wanted the state party to hold off to give the rank-and-file Republicans the chance to vote in the primary in April 19 without “the establishment telling them what to do,” the...

Former New York State gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino discusses why he likes the idea of Trump as the next president.

I can't stand Dan Maffei.

Welcome to New York, Mr. President. I will be your guide. I am the ghost of America future.You have already been visited by the ghost of America past. She showed you a nation that led the world in liberty, morality and prosperity, and which was on the cutting edge of science, medicine and the arts. A nation that went to war not for conquest, but for liberation, which gave of its treasure and blood to free Asia from the Japanese, Africa from the Italians and Europe from the Germans. A nation that led the world into peace, freedom and modernity....

Andrew Cuomo has finally noticed no one, including him, has paid any real attention to the needs of upstate New York, but his actions and lack of actions tells us nothing has really changed. Governor Cuomo declares he is finally going to focus on improving the upstate economy, saying, “There has been no upstate focus…downstate dominates the legislature, because that’s where the people are.” We know, Governor; we’re the wan tail attached to that Great Dane, New York City. Whenever they twitch, we are wagged.

A Local "Newscaster," Mr. Ted Baker, was quoted as agreeing with the "Fox Lies" chanters when commently endlessly on the union protestors in WI. He is constantly using his "pulpit" for praising the Obama administration, fully duped as he is, yet launching morning diatribes against anything vaguely conservative.

Kennedy Takes A Beating From Upstate Media Reporters Jump All Over Mostly Silent Princess Of Camelot; Mayor Of Syracuse Doesn't Offer Endorsement Who Should Get Senate Gig? Siena Poll: Cuomo 26, Kennedy 23 Reporting Marcia Kramer NEW YORK (CBS) Caroline Kennedy took a page from Hillary Clinton's playbook and began an upstate listening tour On Wednesday. The road trip included stops in Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo to help convince Gov. David Paterson and voters she's the one to replace Clinton in the U.S. Senate. But it was a tough crowd. The black SUV pulled up to Syracuse city hall Wednesday...

The New York State Independence Party Vice Chairman John Dote slammed Congressman Michael Arcuri and his campaign spokesperson, Jordan Karp's claims in a local newspaper of being "independent." "We feel strongly about an independent voice for the people. Mr. Arcuri has proven over the past two years that politics are more important to him than truly representing the voters of this district. The fact that he attaches his name to the word "independent," is truly misleading and frankly insulting to our party and the voters who he fooled once already. We state below some facts we considered, which ultimately led...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Fugitive Ralph "Bucky" Phillips, suspected of killing one state trooper and wounding two others, may have spent 11 days hiding out in a western Pennsylvania home last month, slipping back into New York at least once to steal 41 guns from a gun shop, authorities said Wednesday. As New York State Police searched the woods of Chautauqua County for Phillips at the end of August, he was staying - at least some of the time - at the home of Todd Allen Nelson in Ludlow, Pa., Pennsylvania state police said Wednesday. Nelson, 30, was arrested Aug....

Most of you have seen the picture of a priest baptizing a naked baby by dipping its butt into a baptismal "pool". It constituted a thread here on FR and we all wondered where this had taken place. The full story appeared today in The Wanderer. Here it is, hand transcribed. * * * * * ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The Diocese of Rochester’s Sacred Heart Cathedral, which Bishop Matthew Clark insists is the model for Catholic worship for the entire diocese, was the setting for a bizarre baptismal ritual of questionable validity on Pentecost Sunday, as Rainbow Sashers received Communion....