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Her District 45 spreads over 6,800 square-miles from parts of Washington County, up past Plattsburgh, to the Canadian border and west past Tupper Lake. Her devotion to the more than 300,000 constituents is perhaps what many will miss most about Little, who announced in December that she is retiring from the Senate.
“Every vote counts,” Hamilton County Board of Elections Democrat Commissioner Cathleen Rogers said. “We are a small county and sometimes there is a tie in election results.”
In Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget, the DEC is slated to get 47 full-time employees added to its staff -- but no new rangers.
"New York has to be the state that stands up and says once and for all, 'We have to do more and we have to do it faster, and let's pledge the largest amount of any state in the United States of America.'"
Though Cuomo did not specifically talk about these projects on Wednesday, the 318-page State of the State book mentions the Adirondacks 12 times, and statewide proposed programs and legislation could also affect the park.
The roughly $24 million project is a necessary water-quality protection measure for Lake George, but it has also been a taxpayer nightmare.
The governor objected to the legislation’s failure to include a helmet requirement and other safety measures.
By Ben Westcott
Part of her job will be working to create diversity training programs that can be used by local businesses. This programming will train the staff of “customer-facing” companies to expand their ideas of diversity and welcoming.
By Tim Rowland
State officials hope this travel-corridor management plan — which is similar to past plans, but tidies up some objections raised in the courts — is the final word in a long and contentious battle over a state-owned rail line running 119 miles from Lake Placid south and west to Remsen.
Each Disaster Assistance Service Center has representatives from the state Department of Financial Services, Office of Children and Family Services, Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, Department of Labor, Office of Mental Health, Department of Health, Office of People with Developmental Disabilities, and the Office for Aging.