Articles by Steve Yablonski

A group of concerned citizens spent their lunch hour Tuesday holding an informational picket outside Oswego City Hall. “If you look at where we’re going to pay for this on the back end, we’re going to see the deficit balloon,” explained Tom Drumm, one of the organizers. “What you’ll see nationally is massive cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. This hurts New York, in my opinion. (The plan) seems to go after the poor and the elderly; which is the playbook we typically see. It hurts our most vulnerable populations.”

Federal funding is available to the state and to tribal and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the flooding in the counties of Jefferson, Niagara, Orleans, Oswego, St. Lawrence, and Wayne.