County to update website with input from officials and public
Turner leads a county review of award winning municipal websites to guide a new county site. In coming weeks he will seek feedback from legislators and department heads with a proposal likely by early November. Backus and Mulcahey urge online payments, better access, and improved DMV services to boost taxpaying and customer service.
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Turner
Michael Backus
Backus
Department of Motor Vehicles
DMV
Oswego County weighs jail overcrowding study plan
Officials seek a comprehensive study of Oswego County public safety needs to ease jail overcrowding and assess options including expanding or building a new facility. The county jail holds up to 159 and has operated near capacity, with about half a million dollars yearly spent to house inmates out of county.
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Weatherup
Oswego County
New York
Frank Castiglia
Jake Mulcahey
D-Oswego
Mulcahey
Houston drainage grid deemed obsolete amid relentless floods
Houston faces repeat 100-year floods as low zoning and limited upstream storage strain an aged system. Experts blame too much development, insufficient green space, and minimal regulation for river bayous, dry reservoirs Addicks and Barker, and a water-logged city after Hurricane Harvey.
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Houston
United States
Rice University
Environmental Engineering
Phil Bedient
New Orleans
Jim Blackburn
Harris County
Bedient
Blackburn
Prairies
County, EEE and WNV active despite aerial spraying
Oswego County public health officials report that initial surveillance shows aerial spraying on August 28 reduced mosquitoes but eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus remain present. EEE and WNV positive pools were found before spraying in the Toad Harbor and Big Bay Swamps area. Officials urge protection measures at dawn and dusk, long clothing, repellents, and removal of standing water to limit exposure.
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Oswego
Toad Harbor
Jiancheng Huang
New York State Department of Health
Big Bay
New York
Expert on racial politics to speak at SUNY Oswego
The I Am Oz Diversity Speaker Series at SUNY Oswego will host a scholar renowned for civil rights policy analysis. She earned a Chicago PhD, taught at DePaul Minnesota and Loyola, and wrote Governing Race. A book signing follows the talk with parking available behind Hart and Funnelle halls.
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Suny Oswego
United States
Moore
U.S. Senate
University of Chicago
DePaul University
University of Minnesota
Loyola University of Chicago
Princeton Review
New York State Commission On Judicial Conduct
Hart
Funnelle
Oswego
I Am Oz
Division of
Judge dismisses Palin defamation suit vs New York Times
A federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Tuesday that Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times fails to show actual malice. Judge Jed Rakoff dismissed the suit over an editorial tied to the 2011 Gabby Giffords shooting, noting rapid corrections and insufficient proof of knowing publication of false statements.
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New York
Sarah Palin
New York Times
Alaska
Jed Rakoff
Manhattan
America
Virginia
U.S
Steve Scalise
Times
Palin
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