By WSYR-TV

Albany (WSYR-TV) - Governor Pataki announced this afternoon that the State Parks Department is waving fees at several Long Island state parks today and tomorrow, due to the heat. You’ll still have to pay to use state parks here in Central New York, however.

You can go to the following parks for free tomorrow: Jones Beach State Park, Robert Moses State Park, Hither Hills State Park, Sunken Meadow State Park, Heckscher Stat...
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By News10Now Staff

It could be a new start and new look for a section of the city of Syracuse which has faced economic hardship.

Local business and government leaders are touting creation of a new South Salina Street Trade Area as a beacon for economic development and creation of new business and jobs.

"When you ask the economic development gurus what it takes to transform cities and create growth in communities that have la...
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By News10Now Staff

Democrat Eliot Spitzer is continuing his bus tour around the state with a stop in our region. Spitzer appeared at the Fayetteville fire department this morning shaking hands and promising change if elected governor.

The attorney general and his running mate, David Paterson, left from Buffalo yesterday. The two got their party's designation at the Democratic Convention. Spitzer is facing a primary from Nassau Coun...
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By Eric Kriss

State Sen. David Valesky, near or at the top of the Senate Republican majority’s political hit list this year, got his moment in the limelight today at the State Democratic Convention in Buffalo.

And Valesky, D-Oneida, used his brief speech to delegates to stress the importance of electing Democrats to the State Senate, which could be the last bastion of GOP power in the state next year. ...

Speaking in the ball...
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By Nick Reisman

ALBANY — Should the state Legislature have to live by the same Freedom of Information Law that applies to state agencies and local governments? Some lawmakers and government reform groups say yes. But the state's foremost expert on government secrecy has his doubts that it's necessary.

The issue is before the Legislature because an upstate New York lawmaker has proposed a bill that would end the Legislature's exempti...
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