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Afghanistan veteran Alissa Ellman won the Democratic primary in NY-24 with nearly 62% of the vote. Ellman will face Republican incumbent Rep. Claudia Tenney in November.
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Diana Kastenbaum and Alissa Ellman are running in the Democratic primary for New York's 24th Congressional District.
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New York's highest court unanimously ruled that mandatory retirement ages for state judges remain constitutional despite the 2024 Equal Rights Amendment.
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Onondaga County will fund an objective $500,000 study on data centers, aiming to give local governments the data needed to manage bans and moratoriums.
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There’s a push by a number of agencies in Oneida and Herkimer counties to get state legislation in place to better coordinate the response to incidents of domestic violence.
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The bill would prevent retailers from using data about individual shoppers to charge them more for an item than other shoppers would be charged.
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The grant from the U.S. Department of Education will fund a partnership between the district and SUNY Oswego to attract and hire more school psychologists.
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Onondaga County is forming a $500,000 task force to help local governments evaluate the environmental and economic impacts of controversial AI data centers.