{"id":28357,"date":"2025-11-04T16:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28357\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:27:17","slug":"new-yorkers-to-vote-on-state-assembly-seat-historic-site-policy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28357\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorkers to vote on state Assembly seat, historic site policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Tuesday is Election Day, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2025\/11\/04\/trumps-strength-democrats-message-shutdown-effect-what-watch-election-day-2025\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2025\/11\/04\/trumps-strength-democrats-message-shutdown-effect-what-watch-election-day-2025\/\">voters across the country taking up a wealth of issues at the state and local levels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In New York\u2019s North Country, we\u2019re watching the special election for a state Assembly seat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Following the resignation of Billy Jones earlier this year, Democratic candidate and current Plattsburgh Town Manager Michael Cashman faces Republican Brent Davison. Davison is a retired New York State Police commander.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The seat is only a one-year gig to finish up Jones\u2019s remaining term. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both candidates say repealing the HALT Act, which partly did away with solitary confinement to prevent brutality toward inmates, is among their top priorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They disagree on medical aid in dying, which is on Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s desk. Davison is against it while Cashman supports it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Also on the ballot in New York, a constitutional amendment involving hundreds of acres of land at Mount Van Hoevenberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It\u2019s meant to rectify legal issues with upgrades to the historic site\u2019s parking lot, hiking trails and facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The proposed amendment asks voters to approve any future land alterations on more than 300 acres of land in the mountain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In return, the state would put roughly 2,500 acres back into the forest preserve of at least equal value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Tuesday is Election Day, with voters across the country taking up a wealth of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17713,9433,2659,7496,93,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,17712,1635,87,1631,1068],"class_list":{"0":"post-28357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-country","9":"tag-day","10":"tag-election","11":"tag-election-day","12":"tag-new","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-new-york-state","17":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-state-news","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-north","21":"tag-northern","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-wcax","24":"tag-york"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}