EDITORIAL From All, Best Wishes For A Speedy Recovery Editor’s Note: This editorial is reprinted from this week’s editions of Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal, on newsstands now. The news that state Sen. Jim Seward’s cancer is back – his office issued a press release Wednesday, Nov. 6 – brings two immediate reactions. One, fingers crossed. Advances in cancer-fighting research can mean five years, 10 years – and more – of active living. Everyone’s got a story of a…
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COLUMN VIEW FROM ALBANY No ‘Green Light’ Law As Loose As This One By State Sen. JIM SEWARD, R-Milford • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ALBANY – While the 2019 state legislative session concluded several weeks ago, discussion continues to swirl around one of the more controversial new measures approved this year – the so-called “Green Light” law. he new law, which formally takes effect on Dec. 14, 2019, would permit illegal/undocumented immigrants to apply for standard driver’s licenses using forms of…
COLUMN Fair Practices Act May Force Farms Out Of Business By State Sen. JIM SEWARD • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Earlier this year the New York City-centric state Senate leadership, for political reasons, blocked Amazon and 25,000 jobs from coming to our state. Now, in the closing hours of the 2019 legislative session, the same group of “leaders” are killing off existing jobs by targeting our state’s number one industry – agriculture. To be clear, when New York was announced as…
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WORKFORCE SUMMIT 2018 There ARE Jobs In Select Fields, Conference Told By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The good news is, if you want a job as a registered nurse, retail supervisor of information security analyst around here, you’ve got it. The bad news is, young people aren’t participating in the workforce as before, and people generally are leaving the area. Overall, if you really want to work, go into the hospital and healthcare fields. That was…
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CLICK HERE FOR SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE Day 1, And Otsego Health Fair Already ‘Phenomenal Success’ At the first Otsego County Healthy Living Expo today, organizer Mathew Johnson, left, and Julie Dostal, right, look on as Bassett physician Richard Brown briefs state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, on National Take Back Week, an initiative to collect outdated prescriptions. Inset photo, Allistair, left, and Alex Scorzafava, center, present Michael Gardner, Milford, with a brand new bicycle provided by New York Central Mutual; the company…
