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WCDO News — Monday 1-20-20

Posted 2:29 PM
State
Senator Jim Seward announced today that the will NOT seek re-election this
year, and will retire from the senate when his current term expires at the end
of the year.  Seward released a statement
saying that he has responded well to his recent cancer treatments, but his
continuing treatments will limit his ability to maintain the rigorous schedule
needed to campaign for re-election.
Seward has serviced in the State Senate since 1986.


Commerce
Chenango has teamed up with SFCU to host a series of Roundtable Workshops, with
the 1st one scheduled for the morning of January 28th in Norwich, Commerce
Chenango CEO Kerri Green explains:

(Kerri
Green 1-20-20)

The
workshop will be held in the Commerce Chenango Community Room at 15 South Broad
Street in Norwich, starting at 7:30 AM through 9:00 AM, more information is
available at 334-1400.


Governor
Cuomo will release his state budget plan Tomorrow afternoon which has a 6
Billion dollar projected budget gap due to the state taking over the Medicaid
costs from local governments over the last 6 years, he commented during his
State of the State address 2 weeks ago:

(Cuomo
1-20-20)

State
Comptroller Tom DiNapoli stated last week that the state too often relies on
moving deficits to out-year budgets, eventually it has to be dealt with.


Bills
are being drawn up in both house of the state legislature to rescind or delay
the controversial Bail Reform bill that went into effect January 1st.  Hundreds of criminal charges that used to
result in suspects being held on bail, are now having the suspects released
back into their communities, several committed crimes within hours of their
release.  Governor Cuomo made no mention
of the controversy in his State of the State address on January 8th.


Former
New York Congressman Christopher Collins was sentenced Friday to 26 months in
federal prison for his role in an illegal insider trading scheme involving an
Australian business.  Collins must
surrender on March 17th to the Bureau of Prisons & will be sent to a
federal prison, He resigned from Congress immediately after the plea.

The
Legacy of DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. will be celebrated today in Albany.  The Free Event will be held in The Egg’s Hart
Theatre, beginning at 9:00 AM, The public is invited to attend or watch it
streamed live at empirestateplaza.ny.gov; and the program will begin promptly
at 10 a.m.


On
Friday Investigators and Deputies from the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office
arrested 48-year-old Mark Boice of Delancey for Endangering the Welfare of a
Child and Forcible Touching, for allegedly touching a child
inappropriately.  Boice was issued an
appearance ticket returnable to the Town of Hamden Court at a later date.

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