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Saturday will be seasonably warm, pleasant and mainly dry with highs in the low and mid 80s.
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“It will utterly destabilize our health insurance program,” Hochul said in Albany. “Cuts of about $13 billion a year between New York state and our overall health care system. One point five million New Yorkers will be stripped of health insurance, something many of us when we were in Congress fought for from the Affordable Care Act. It will be cutting essential funding for hospitals and health care systems and without a doubt putting lives at risk.”
2. Binghamton mayor, common council clash over installation of EV charging stations
Binghamton Mayor Jared Kraham is sounding off on the city council, which he says Wednesday night voted not to install 40 public electric vehicle charging stations in and around Binghamton. The project was backed by a more than $160,000 state grant.
3. 3 more lake deaths reported in upstate New York
Two Syracuse residents, Dale Hull, 64, and Dean Hull, 65, died Wednesday afternoon after members of the Oswego County Sheriff’s Marine Patrol responded to a report of an unmanned boat and found their bodies floating in Three Mile Bay on the north shore of Oneida Lake near West Monroe, authorities said.
4. Onondaga Co. executive addresses aquarium funding, construction
Fundraising for Onondaga County’s Inner Harbor aquarium project is a few million dollars short of its goal, Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon said Wednesday, but construction progress is ahead of where he expected it.
5. House poised to OK Trump’s $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid
The Senate has passed about $9 billion in federal spending cuts requested by President Donald Trump, including deep reductions to public broadcasting and foreign aid, moving forward on one of the president’s top priorities despite concerns from several Republican senators.
6. Trump’s approval rating on immigration and government spending has slipped, new AP-NORC poll finds
Only about one-quarter of U.S. adults say that President Donald Trump’s policies have helped them since he took office, according to a new poll that finds underwhelming marks for him on key issues, including the economy, immigration, government spending and health care.