Congress, having appropriated $75 billion of our tax dollars to ICE (more than the entire military budgets of most countries) is now considering further funding in the budget, due January 30.…
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Paul Mendelsohn
Kennedy began the Administration Committee recap by pulling Res. 380 and Res. 381—resolutions approving the adoption of the 2026 budget and its associated appropriations—for individual consideration. Kennedy invited Otsego County Treasurer Allen Ruffles to speak on the auction of 22 Maple Street in Gilbertsville...…
Dishwashers, mothers, gardeners, people who arrived as small children reportedly disappear to private prisons at undisclosed locations, simply vanishing from their communities and their families—along with a far smaller number of people who are legitimately arrested.…
Donald Trump campaigned on deporting the “worst of the worst” and has, as I expect you’re aware, hired a poorly trained army of well-funded yet poorly trained, unaccountable, masked men to meet unrealistic quotas.…
Pedro Mieles, who is here legally on an asylum agreement, is the latest county resident to be taken by ICE without due process. Escaping Ecuador after witnessing a murder, Pedro came to the U.S. in search of safety and has been working two jobs in our community.…
Climate activists have been frustrated with what they perceive as Gov. Kathy Hochul’s back-pedaling on emission controls. Hochul had been expected to announce steps to implement the cap-and-invest program in her January 2025 State of the State address. Instead, she unexpectedly delayed the program, subsequently announcing a draft GHG emissions reporting rule that would require polluters to report on, but not actually lower, their emissions.…
