With less than a month to go before the April 1st state budget deadline, state legislators, party conferences, interest groups and other constituencies are making a final push to influence what is included in this year’s state budget.
With less than two weeks to go before the State budget is due, one of the most contentious issues remaining is whether the state’s minimum wage should be increased to $15 an hour.
Three students from Altmar-Parish-Williamstown Central School District received awards for two Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) writing contests: the Patriot’s Pen and the Voice of Democracy.
Staff of Oswego County Opportunities (OCO) Nutrition Services assemble paper vans as part of OCO’s March For Meals Campaign.
The 22nd of March 2016 will forever be a historic day for mixed martial arts as The New York State Assembly voted and passed the bill on the sport 113-25. The bill required 76 votes to pass.
The Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce has announced another one of its business and community roundtable events, which will feature Oswego Health President/CEO Chuck Gijanto on April 5 at 3 p.m. at Springside at Seneca Hill.
March is Women’s History Month and many of the early crusaders who fought for the right to vote lived in Upstate New York. Men and women helped this cause but three Upstate women in particular—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Josyln Gage—are credited with shaping the national conversation in the mid and late 1800s, which led to Women’s Suffrage in 1920. All of the women were also abolitionists.
The lack of transparency in this budget process was nearly incomparable. Bills were brought to lawmakers just hours before we were required to vote.
Last week, the New York State legislature passed the state’s 2016-17 budget. The state budget is due on April 1st. In effort to provide the Governor and Legislative leaders the political victory of claiming the budget was passed on time, both the State Senate and Assembly worked all night on Thursday in effort to get it passed. However, due to the sheer size of the budget, its complexity and the complete lack of transparency during budget negotiations, it took the Assembly until 8 p.m. Friday, April 2nd to pass the final budget bill.
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