‘Bail Reform Nightmare’ Requires Delaware Sheriff To Ignore Better Instincts Suspect In Forcible Home Entry Released By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com DELHI – It’s another example of “the bail reform nightmare,” said Delaware County Sheriff Craig DuMond after he was required this week to release a suspect who allegedly forced his way into a Walton home, stole prescription drugs and choked a female occupant. “It is still very difficult for me to fathom a world where a criminal…
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GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES: 600 $75,000 Jobs Within Commuting Distance Of County MARCY – The Cuomo Administration Monday announced a $1 billion agreement with Cree Inc. to create 600 jobs paying $75,000 at Marcy, within commuting distance of Otsego County, in the next six years. Here’s the statement from the Governor’s Office on the announcement Economic Development czar Howard Demsky made on Cuomo’s behalf yesterday afternoon at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute north of Utica. It decribes……
VOTE ON NEW LICENSE PLATES New License Plates Called ‘Money Grab’ County Clerk Sinnott Gardner Urges Drivers To Complain To Governor COOPERSTOWN – The Cuomo Administration’s plans to replace New York State license plates is an “unnecessary money grab,” County Clerk Kathy Sinnott Gardner declared in a public statement. The new license plates will cost all New York drivers $25. If you want to keep your current plate, you will have to pay $45. “In other words,” Sinnott Gardner said,…
COLUMN ALBANY ON THE MARCH With Domestic Terrorism Act, New York State Leads Nation Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Governor Cuomo’s Thursday, Aug. 14, speech to the New York City Bar Association, where he proposed the nation’s first Hate Crimes Domestic Terrorism Act. We must begin by recognizing the crisis for what it is because you will never solve a problem in life you are unwilling to admit, and today New York State acknowledges the ugly truth: that…
EDITORIAL Marijuana Law Prudent Step. Maybe, Just Maybe, Enough This year’s wild and crazy one-party bloc in Albany may have, by failing to reach it’s ultimate goal, achieved a sensible outcome in one area. Governor Cuomo Monday, July 29, signed legislation that reduces the penalty for unlawful possession of marijuana under 2 ounces from felony to violation. The penalty: a $50 fine for less than an ounce to a maximum of $200 for one to 2 ounces. (Above that, dealing’s…
HUMAN SOCIETY HAILS MEASURE Governor Signs Ban On Declawing Cats ALBANY – Governor Cuomo today signed the bill banning declawing of cats in the Empire State, a move hailed by he Humane Society of the United States. New York is the first state to ban the procedure. “This historic bill in New York is a watershed moment for the declawing issue,” said Humane Society President Kitty Block (cq), “and we hope other states will follow suit by prohibiting this unnecessary…
EDITORIAL Officers, Use Judgment: Law Allows To Provide Mugshots To The Public The recently completed state budget contains a measure, championed by Governor Cuomo, that prohibits police departments from releasing mug shots of suspects. The other day, Monday, April 22, Trooper Aga Dembinska, Trooper C spokesman, declined to release a mug shot of Gabriel Truitt, 33, suspect in the Dec. 29 arson fire on Oneonta’s Walling Avenue, where former city firefighter John Heller was killed. Dembinska advised that, while the…
SALKA PUSHED FOR BILL Cuomo Bypasses Dems To Provide Tuition Aid To Gold Star Families Bypassing his fellow Democrats in the Assembly, Governor Cuomo today ordered the state to begin providing tuition assistance to Gold Star Families, the spouses and children of soldiers killed in the line of duty. Otsego County Assembly John Salka, R-Brookfield, who has been pushing the legislation, said the governor’s action “is simply amazing.” He said, “From me and my peers in the Assembly Republican Conference,…
Cuomo, Legislature Approve $102 Billion F20 Budget Overnight HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS 2% Tax Cap Permanent School Aid Up $1 Billion Plastic Bags Are Banned Limousine Law Tougher Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ALBANY – The state today has a 2019-2020 budget agreement that makes the 2 percent property tax cap permanent, and adds $1 billion to education funding. Other notable components include tougher regulations on limos after the 20-fatality crash in Schoharie County, a ban plastic bags in supermarkets, public financing…
Cuomo Administration Finds $2.3 Billion Budget Shortfall ALBANY – New York State is facing an unexpected $2.3 billion shortfall due to a sharp drop in income tax collections for December and January, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced Monday. CLICK FOR FULL REPORT IN TIMES UNION…