One week in June, only a third of the people who called the Labor Department’s unemployment help line reached a real person.
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Syracuse is set to change how it hands businesses tax breaks for the first time since 2016
The tax breaks intend to incentivize development around bus rapid transit routes, in priority neighborhoods and on brownfield sites.
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Sean Kirst: For John Kucko, ‘water in motion,’ Upstate beauty and what he was born to do
Kucko, a former sportscaster in Rochester, has become a digital force by sharing the region’s natural beauty.
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The race to build solar and wind before Trump’s tax credit deadline
Trump’s megabill gives wind and solar companies one year to put as many shovels in the ground as possible. They want New York officials to help.
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Sean Kirst: The passing of Willowbrook survivor Henry Wesley, who championed “full humanity” of Americans with disabilities
Wesley’s life is a reminder — as cuts to Medicaid and the federal safety net loom — about the fragility of his and others’ hard-earned chance at independent living.
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Central New York’s housing discrimination watchdog fears budget wipeout as federal budget season looms
President Donald Trump proposed cutting funding that fuels housing discrimination watchdogs. If money to fund those organizations is not appropriated by Congress, CNY Fair Housing could lose 70% of its funding.
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Syracuse lawmakers plan to question police about sharing drivers’ data: ‘We’ll dig a little bit’
Common Council Public Safety Committee Chair Chol Majok said Monday he plans to call a meeting to dig into how drivers’ information was shared with thousands of police agencies.
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Sean Kirst: A secret donor made sure basketball’s game-changing shot clock is monumental, in Syracuse
John Marsellus died at 86 last month. Marsellus, whose family ran the renowned Marsellus Casket Co., made possible a monument to basketball’s shot clock. The shot clock was created in Syracuse.
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Syracuse police ‘inadvertently’ exposed driver data to thousands of cops around the country
Police officers around the country searched Syracuse’s data nearly 4.4 million times since June 2024. After Central Current’s initial reporting, SPD backed out of the data sharing agreement, a spokesperson said.
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New York wants clean energy. Is nuclear energy the answer?
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced plans for the state’s power authority to develop another nuclear reactor to provide more energy to the state. The announcement touched off debate among renewable energy advocates.
