Tag: Syracuse (NY)

These House Republicans Could Be the Targets of New York Redistricting

New York’s top court handed Democrats a long-coveted victory on Tuesday: the power to redraw the state’s 26 congressional districts before the 2024 elections. The party is widely expected to use it to target as many as six Republican-held swing seats. Even subtle shifts in the lines from Syracuse to Long Island could make it […]

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Michael Bragman, 83, Dies; Led a Failed Legislative Coup in New York

Michael J. Bragman, a Democratic powerhouse who was deposed as the majority leader of the New York State Assembly and retired from politics after mounting an unsuccessful and politically suicidal coup against the speaker, Sheldon Silver, in 2000, died on Oct. 13 in Syracuse, N.Y. He was 83. His death was confirmed by his daughter […]

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Anguish in an Immigrant Community After a Sheriff’s Deputy Kills 2 Teens

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — They buried them both on Saturday: a pair of identical gray coffins, wheeled out of a hillside church and into the adopted hometown of many of the mourners. The two dead — Dhal Apet, 17, and Lueth Mo, 15 — were part of the South Sudanese community here in Syracuse, second-generation émigrés […]

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