Troy Mayor Mantello on maintaining safe and clean streets
Troy Mayor Carmella Mantello sat down with JoDee Kenney to discuss the city’s Quality of Life Action task force. The city’s goal is to get departments to coordinate and collaborate more. This includes filling potholes block by block. The city is also working to address a homeless encampment and connect those in need of services with […]
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Troy mayor on building trust between community and police
This week on In Focus, Troy Mayor Carmella Mantello sat down with JoDee Kenney to discuss efforts to make her city safer. Mantello says part of that comes from building trust between the community and police. Through relationship building, Mantello says she hopes residents have trust in their police and safety officials to report […]
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Watertown mayor on years on eclipse safety prep
Watertown Mayor Sarah Compo Pierce says the city has been preparing for as many as 150,000 visitors for the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8. Safety is a big concern. Watertown is warning everyone about traffic, lines, and waits. City officials are advising you to give yourself extra time to get where you need […]
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3 cities across N.Y. state to swear in female mayors
Longtime Jamestown Councilwoman Kim Ecklund will soon walk up the steps of Tracy Plaza on her way to City Hall as the newly elected mayor, only the second female in almost 30 years to do so, yet the first-ever Republican woman. “It’s huge,” Ecklund said. “Women have broken barriers as you can see in the […]
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Albany Co. Dem. chair on early mayoral primary announcement
We are talking about the impact of local elections across upstate New York, ahead of the 2024 presidential election cycle this weekend on In Focus. JoDee Kenney sat down with Albany County Democratic Committee Chair Jake Crawford, who weighed in on 2023’s results as a potential predictor for the year to come. Looking back to […]
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Mayor-elect Pierce on priorities for city of Watertown
This weekend on In Focus, we’re unpacking the impact of local election results across upstate New York. JoDee Kenney was joined by Watertown Mayor-elect Sarah Compo Pierce, the first woman to be elected to that role in the city’s history. Compo Pierce said her priorities will be increasing fiscal responsibility and accountability in city government […]
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Redistricting fights in these 10 states could determine which party controls the US House | Politics-national | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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(CNN) — Around the country, politicians are waging high-stakes battles over new congressional lines that could influence which party controls the US House of Representatives after the 2024 election. In North Carolina, the Republicans who control the state legislature have crafted a map that could help them flip at least three seats. Democrats, meanwhile, could […]
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CNN — Around the country, politicians are waging high-stakes battles over new congressional lines that could influence which party controls the US House of Representatives after the 2024 election. In North Carolina, the Republicans who control the state legislature are crafting district lines that could flip as many as four Democratic-held seats. Democrats, meanwhile, could […]
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FILE – A map of a GOP proposal to redraw Alabama’s congressional districts is displayed at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Democrats got a potential boost for the 2024 congressional elections as courts in Alabama and Florida ruled in the summer of 2023 that Republican-led legislatures had unfairly diluted the […]
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Adams, Hochul show united front amid migrant disagreements
The camaraderie between Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul was on full display Tuesday. “You remind me of Sandra, my favorite sister. Even when we have a philosophical disagreement, I have her back. And I have your back,” Adams told Hochul Tuesday. “Partnerships are important, but also individual leadership, and I want to commend […]
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