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Exclusive New York Sandy ‘Climate Resilience’ Plan Won’t Address Climate Pollution
$300 million climate-resiliency initiative established by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg using Sandy relief funds will not address climate pollution, according to a city official. The New York City Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency (SIRR), formed in November 2012, will release a report this month indicating how $294 million in federal funding from the Superstorm Sandy ...
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Albany mayor candidates differ on downtown convention center Video
May 24, 2013 -- Albany, NY mayor candidate Kathy Sheehan says the city needs more meeting and convention space, but not a "big white box." Her opponent, Corey Ellis, doesn't support a new convention center. (Michael DeMasi) Kathy Sheehan and Corey Ellis, the only two Democrats to thus far announce they want to become the next mayor of Albany, NY, have different thoughts about a ...
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Search for Ithaca man who went missing on Cayuga Lake to resume authorities say
Christopher Dennis, of Cayuga Heights Road, left a campsite around 5 a.m. Wednesday in the town of Covert and put a canoe into Cayuga Lake alone. When Dennis didn't return later in the day, his friends began looking for him and found an overturned canoe in the middle of the lake around 12:30 p.m., the sheriff's office said. The friends called 911. On Thursday searchers from the ...
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Rome man crashes into Oneida County sheriffs patrol car
Adam Little, 26, was making a left turn when he crossed the center line and hit a sheriff's deputy patrol car, the Oneida County Sheriff's Office ...
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Baldwinsville police search for woman who stole money from local Kinney Drugs store
Baldwinsville, NY -- Baldwinsville police are searching for a woman who stole money from a village drug store May 16. Around 8:33 p.m., the woman walked into Kinney Drugs at 21 E. Genesee St. and was purchasing a money order, police said. The woman allegedly took money off the counter during the transaction. Anyone with information about the woman or the incident is asked to contact local ...
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LI police reopening probe into 1986 student death
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- Police on Long Island are reopening the investigation into the 1986 death of a teenage rabbinical student who was bludgeoned in his dormitory ...
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Rochester scientists invent vision test to predict IQ take it to see how smart you are
Syracuse, N.Y. -- University of Rochester researchers have come up with a new vision test that can predict IQ. You can take the test below. The simple exercise measures the brain's unconscious ability to filter out visual movement. The study shows individuals whose brains are better at automatically suppressing background motion perform better on standard measures of intelligence. In the ...
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Hotel occupancy on the rise
Local hotel occupancy in both April and the first quarter almost identically mirrored national trends. According to statistics compiled by Nashvilles Smith Travel Research, hotel occupancy - a key economic indicator in the hopsitality industry - in Buffalo and Erie County hit the 63 percent in April, a figure that increased 2.1 percent from last Aprils 61.7 percent mark. By comparison, ...
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Hotel occupancy on the rise
Local hotel occupancy in both April and the first quarter almost identically mirrored national trends. According to statistics compiled by Nashvilles Smith Travel Research, hotel occupancy - a key economic indicator in the hopsitality industry - in Buffalo and Erie County hit the 63 percent in April, a figure that increased 2.1 percent from last Aprils 61.7 percent mark. By comparison, ...
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Hotel occupancy on the rise
Local hotel occupancy in both April and the first quarter almost identically mirrored national trends. According to statistics compiled by Nashvilles Smith Travel Research, hotel occupancy - a key economic indicator in the hopsitality industry - in Buffalo and Erie County hit the 63 percent in April, a figure that increased 2.1 percent from last Aprils 61.7 percent mark. By comparison, ...
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Cuomos tax-free zone proposal stirring interest
Business at a glance: Governor's plan to create tax-free zones at SUNY campuses has already got business and political leaders dreaming up ways to take advantage of ...
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Veterans Watchfire to be kindled Sunday in Geddes
File photo Mike Greenlar|mgreenlar@syracuse.com Geddes, NY - Wooden pallets lie ready in a State Fairgrounds parking lot to fuel the annual Veteran's Memorial Watchfire on Sunday ...
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Company news Amy Szczesniak appointed director of the office of patient experience
. Most recently a clinical nurse specialist, Szczesniak has worked at St. Joseph's for nearly 15 years. She has a bachelor's of science degree in nursing from Russell Sage, and a master of science in nursing from Keuka College. ...
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Local credit unions raise money for Oklahoma tornado victims
A bank vault turned out to be a good place to take shelter for 22 employees and members of a credit union in Moore, Okla. on Tuesday when a tornado devastated the city. During the storm 14 employees and eight members took cover in the vault at Tinker Federal Credit Union. The vault was the only part of the credit union still standing after the storm. The credit union posted photos of the ...
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Driver abducted bound during LI carjacking
FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) -- Police on Long Island are looking for five gunmen who robbed a driver, then bound him and drove around with him in the trunk before releasing ...
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QA NY education commissioner on new curriculum standards
John King Jr., New York education commissioner, says the Common Core curriculum is an important nationwide effort to prepare students for college and career ...
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McCormick faces investors at TrustCo annual meeting
Robert McCormick, CEO of TrustCo Bank Corp NY had compensation totalling $2 million in 2012. TrustCo Bank Corp NY CEO Robert McCormick told shareholders at the Glenville, NY companys annual meeting that the answer to a sagging stock price is to buy more. McCormick, 50, said he understands that the stock (Nasdaq: TRST) is not where shareholders would like it to be. It closed May 23 at $5.60 a ...
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Frontier Communications moves 27 jobs from NY to Texas
Frontier Communications is pulling 27 union jobs out of its Gloversville, NY operations center and moving them to Allen, Texas. The telecommunications company, which employs 2,300 people in New York state, is searching for ways to operate more efficiently, according to ...
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Senate immigration deal loosens foreign hiring restrictions
Charles Schumer played a leading role in brokering a compromise to ease harsh restrictions on hiring foreign workers that was part of the immigration reforms taking shape in Washington. The compromise will make it easier for companies, especially tech companies, to hire skilled foreign ...
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How could rising interest rates affect student loans
The debt crisis among college students and recent grads could get worse as they encounter a new threat: It's possible that interest rates on student loans will climb under a new bill passed by the House on Thursday, The Wall Street Journal's Market Watch reports. The bill ties student loan interest rates to the financial markets, and experts say the low-interest rate environment ...
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Todays obituaries John B. Carpenter Jr. was an F-M school bus driver involved in Boy Scout leadership
John B. Carpenter Jr., 73, of South Onondaga, died Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at Upstate University Hospital at Community General. Born in Syracuse, he retired in 2002 from J. B. Brady as a technician and in 2008 from Fayetteville-Manlius School District as a school bus driver. He served the Boy Scouts of America Hiawatha Council on various committees and was a Master for 25 years of South ...
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Hotel occupancy rates rebound in Albany region
Revenue per available room in the Capital Region, rose 5 percent, to $60.49. Hotels in the Albany, NY area rebounded in April after eight consecutive months in which the average occupancy rate fell. The average occupancy rate at 137 hotels in the area increased 3.4 percent, to 59.6 percent, according to STR, a hospitality consulting firm in Tennessee. The average daily rate increased 1.6 ...
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A Bethpage drinking supply well shut down
Bethpage Water District officials say the amount of radium does not exceed federal or state drinking water standards. They will run tests to try to determine where the radioactive element is coming ...
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Hedge hog No mamas
Hedge funds may be the last bastion of white male privilege - and that’s just the way these Neanderthals like it."I don’t think you’ll ever see as many great women investors or traders as men, period," said billionaire Tudor Investment Corp. founder Paul Tudor Jones, adding that children are the kiss of death for an investment career. "As soon as that ...
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‘F-bombed’ taxi big slaps harder at Mike
The taxi magnate who said he was cursed out by Mayor Bloomberg has added the alleged F-bomb-laced tirade to a lawsuit accusing the mayor of harassing him for opposing the "Taxi of Tomorrow" plan.The amended suit, filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, charges that Bloomberg and Taxi and Limousine Commission chief David Yassky orchestrated a blizzard of bogus tickets on cabs ...
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New York's community gardens creating tension once more
Community gardening in New York is under threat again, but what are the ideas and opinions surrounding this ongoing battle between the people and the city?
Community gardening is a well-known term and idea in New York City thanks to the much-publicized opposition between former Mayor Giuliani and members of the New York City public, who brought a lawsuit to have the gardens protected. The issue was eventually resolved when Mayor Bloomberg replaced Giuliani and introduced the Garden Settlement of 2002. Read more
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