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State Republican leaders are welcoming a judge’s ruling that the new congressional and legislative maps drawn up by the Democratic-led legislature are unconstitutional.
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The clock is ticking for the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission to come up with a set of new proposed maps for congressional and state Senate and Assembly districts after it failed to reach agreement earlier this month. The gridlock means state legislators are one step closer to drawing the maps themselves.
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Republicans in the state legislature called for an end to the state’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for healthcare workers on Wednesday, saying the indiscriminate spread of the Omicron variant has rendered the requirement moot.
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Several Western New York Republican state legislators have united to urge the Hochul administration and New York State Farm Laborers Wage Board to reject a proposed change to the existing farm worker overtime threshold, saying it would devastate what they call the state’s largest economic engine.
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Republican members of the state Legislature focused largely on the proposed repeal of bail reform, a set of laws enacted last year that largely eliminated the use of cash bail for most nonviolent and lower-level charges.
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The Niagara Falls Public Library System is receiving more than $210,000 in grants to help beef up its broadband and technology access. One of the key additions is a so-called “maker’s space,” which was opened in a formal ceremony inside the system’s Main Street branch. Supporters say improved broadband is needed in a city where an estimated 30 percent of the population lack access to the internet.
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Two propositions on the November ballot in New York are drawing a backlash from Republicans and Conservatives who say measures to allow same-day voter registration and universal mail-in voting could increase voter fraud.
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New York State Republican Committee Chair Nick Langworthy’s state-wide Just Say No tour made its stop outside the Erie County Board of Elections in downtown Buffalo Thursday. Langworthy, State Senator Rob Ortt and Assemblyman William Barclay oppose several proposals on the ballot for the upcoming election.
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State Republican Leader Robert Ortt and law enforcement officials from Niagara County are calling for tweaks to criminal justice reforms they say will help curb violent crimes in their county.