Vaughn Golden
North Country Freelance Reporter-
More than two dozen people from around New York state gathered at the Steuben County Courthouse Friday to provide input to the independent expert redrawing the state’s congressional and state Senate districts.
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Gavin Max, president of the New York Young Republican Club, filed the first challenge to the Assembly maps Monday. The challenge intervenes in the same lawsuit in Steuben County as the initial challenge to the other maps.
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The Steuben County judge overseeing the redrawing of New York’s Congressional and state Senate maps has ordered that primary elections for those races to be held in August.
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A highly transmissible strain of avian influenza continues to spread, leading commercial poultry and egg farmers to call on backyard chicken keepers to take measures to help mitigate the spread.
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New York’s environmental agency is deploying drones to detect and ultimately plug abandoned gas wells that are contributing to greenhouse gas emissions around the state.
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The New York State Assembly passed legislation implementing a partial moratorium on some cryptocurrency mining Tuesday, granting a win for environmental activists.
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One of the 10 public hearings over the draft implementation plan for New York’s climate change goals will be held at Binghamton University Tuesday. Another will be held in Buffalo on April 27.
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Acting Supreme Court Justice Patrick McAllister ordered the state Legislature to draw new, bipartisan congressional, state senate and assembly districts. If the Legislature does not do so, the court will step in and hire a neutral expert to draw the new maps.
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U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) said they plan to introduce legislation to begin addressing regulatory matters associated with digital currency.
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The task of drawing state and congressional legislative lines traditionally falls to state legislatures. But some states like California, Michigan, Arizona and Colorado leave it to independent commissions. New York tried to do the same, but on its first go-around missed the mark.