Welcome to a new feature on Oswego County Today. Each day, I’ll gather links to stories I find interesting, or which may have a local connection.
Let’s trade — drop your interesting links in the comments below.
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A majority of likely voters think a viable third party would be good for American politics, according to a new poll of likely voters in 10 key open House districts.
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A new commission headed by a Bronx judge and Manhattan’s top prosecutor has been created to recommend the first comprehensive revision of New York’s sentencing laws and practices in 40 years.
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Rabbi Yehuda Levin, who wrote at least one version of the explosive anti-gay remarks Carl Paladino delivered to Brooklyn ultra-Orthodox leaders last weekend, has withdrawn his endorsement of the GOP/Conservative gubernatorial hopeful following the candidate’s (sorta) apology yesterday.
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WNYMedia.net, the site that released racist, pornographic and sexist e-mails forwarded by GOP/Conservative gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, has posted Round II.
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Albany County DA David Soares said today the matter is “still under review” and will be be addressed “very shortly.”
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An Italian art historian is convinced that a painting passed through generations in a New York family is the work of Michelangelo.
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If elected governor, Paladino said he would shut the doors on the Oneida Indian Nation’s Turning Stone Resort and Casino unless the Nation agreed to negotiate the terms of a gaming compact that permits the Oneidas to operate the casino.
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At a fundraiser last night in New York City, hosted by the Log Cabin Republicans, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos committed to bring a bill legalizing same-sex marriage to a vote.
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The Chiefs of Police Association found that compared with Sheriff’s deputies, local town and village police officers answer the vast majority of calls for much less cost to taxpayers.
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The view from the business world — some like it, some don’t.
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Despite the allowance, ethanol does face some challenges in rising to the new level.
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Good news for Fulton’s ethanol-from-corn plant — the market’s a little bigger now. It could take months before higher concentrations of ethanol start showing up at stations — and once it does, it will be labeled so drivers with older cars don’t use it.
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