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Election 2024: Voting Rights Groups in Pennsylvania Record Another Victory
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled Thursday that a Butler County judge got it wrong when he decided that the county did not have to count provisional ballots from voters whose mail ballots…
NY FOCUS: Are You a New York Teacher Spending Your Own Money on School Supplies?
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. NEW YORK STATE · August 14, 2024 Are You…
After a ‘Devastating’ Frost, Upstate NY On Track for Its Best Apple Harvest in Decades
It’s apple-picking season and it looks like it will be a good one in New York. After a terrible time last year — when a late frost and significant flooding ruined yields…
Hochul Says Details on a Potential Cell Phone Ban in Schools Coming Later This Month
As schools across the Catskills and the Hudson Valley gear up for another school year, one question is on the minds of students, parents and teachers: what is the policy on cellphone…
NY Republicans Call for Investigation After Former Hochul Aide Arrested. Assembly Speaker Says It’s Not Needed.
Federal prosecutors say a New York state official who worked for Governor Kathy Hochul and former Governor Andrew Cuomo was secretly an agent for the Chinese government — and made millions of…
Despite Some Who Want to Tap the Brakes, Electric School Buses Slowly Becoming a Reality
Kids are back in school across most of our listening area and many are still getting there on gas guzzling yellow school buses. After 2027, New York will not allow public schools…
NY Focus: Trump Plans to Kill Congestion Pricing. Hochul’s Pause Could Let Him.
Donald Trump has made no secret of his plans for New York’s congestion pricing program. In a social media post in May, the Republican presidential candidate promised that he would “TERMINATE Congestion…
Election 2024: Pennsylvania Mail Ballots Can’t Be Rejected Over Missing Date
Not counting a voter’s mail ballot because they failed to properly date the return envelope violates their rights under the state constitution, a Pennsylvania appellate court ruled Friday. Republicans said they would…