The Finger Lakes Justice Partnership is proud to announce that over a dozen Finger Lakes area businesses and institutions have signed on to the Committing to the Trans Community Campaign. These initial participants have pledged to welcome and support trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming residents and visitors in the Finger Lakes region.
The Yates County Legislature’s reactionary declaration of a state of emergency around the hypothetical arrival of “large numbers of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers” shows that their priorities lie wherever their news media of choice tells them to look, not in their actual communities. (Where was a similar declaration when Rochester began welcoming Ukrainian refugees?)
Although 62% of registered voters voted in the 2022 election, it only represented 45% of people eligible to vote in Yates County. How could it be that so few people made decisions about who was going to represent us in Albany and Washington DC? Is it possible that over half of the county population of eligible adults don’t want to influence how the state mandates taxes and services, controls schools, or the judicial system and the federal government changes social security, supplemental food assistance, immigration, or Federal income taxes?
Rich Stewart, Co-Chair Yates County Democratic Committe State Senator Tom O’Mara claimed in his May 11 Chronicle Express column that the recently passed State Budget “will make New York the first state in America to ban natural gas stoves, furnaces, and other appliances, and moves forward on a timeline for full electrification and other energy mandates on all New Yorkers that are not feasible, reliable, or affordable. The Albany Democrats vision for New York’s energy future will deliver astronomic costs and devastating consequences.” O’Mara’s claim that New York is banning “natural gas stoves, furnaces, and other appliances” is NOT true.
For all of us, the crisis at the nation’s southern border is no longer just a story on the nightly news. And if you still don’t think the migrant crisis could be headed our way across the Southern Tier and Finger Lakes regions, it’s time to take off the blindfolds.
I am writing this in response to the crescendo of parent behavior displayed at Youth Sports events. My oldest son began playing Youth Sports when he was 4, and he is now 13.
Once Again Shoppe Departures The Once Again Shoppe, located in Penn Yan, has been a pillar within the community for over 30 years. The shop is a non-profit, community focused organization with a mission to provide the residents of Yates County the opportunity to join together in an ecumenical, unified, comprehensive, community action program designed to ease poverty in the county.
FREE BREAKFAST, LUNCH, AND DINNER TO SCHOOLCHILDREN 1 in 6 Children In New York Face Hunger; Gillibrand’s Legislation Would Get Free Meals To Kids Who Need Them WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a recent video press conference, U.S.
“We are done with bail,” Governor Kathy Hochul recently told the Buffalo News, an eyebrow-raising comment that echoed into every corner of this state, “We accomplished what we needed to do.” Translated: Albany Democrats are happy with the status quo that keeps giving away streets and neighborhoods in every region of New York State to the chaos and violence of their “no consequences” approach to criminal justice. Because despite overeager claims that their new state budget has fixed their failed and dangerous bail reform experiment, the fact is that all Governor Hochul and her Democrat majority allies in the Legislature accomplished is to fundamentally maintain the status quo.