Albany County is investing $160,000 in the Eviction Prevention and Intervention Collaborative, known as EPIC, that will help county residents facing eviction with legal assistance, referrals, and information.
The bill would have prevented retired public workers — who are obligated to enroll in Medicare once they’re 65 — from losing the skilled-nursing-care benefit when they make the switch. Governor Kathy Hochul rejected it, saying it was too expensive for governments and school districts.
CLIFTON PARK — Janis J. “Jan” Berschwinger studied music and played in a jazz band and traveled widely for her career but her greatest love was for her family and her favorite place was home.
The Coalition for Open Government, a watchdog on government transparency issues in New York State, is starting a Capital Region chapter made up of citizens who include Robyn Gray, who chairs the steering committee for the Guilderland Coalition for Responsible Growth.
The Albany County Redistricting Commission’s original submission was rejected by the county legislature in October due to what legislatures described as a possible dilution of the county’s majority-minority districts.
Poverty rates in New York State have been higher than the national average since 2014. In 2021, the most recent year with available data, 13.9 percent of New Yorkers lived in poverty — 2.7 million people — compared to 12.8 percent nationwide. For 2020, Albany County had a poverty rate below both the state and national averages — at 11.3 percent.
Dorothy Anna (née Komjathy) Herzog died peacefully at home on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022, surrounded in death as she was in life — by her loving family. She was 89.
She was born on July 29, 1933, the third child of Steven and Esther (née Wright) Komjathy.
The bill, signed by the governor late last month, requires that all funds received by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority from renewable-energy facilities built on farmland will be put into a farmland protection fund.
A report released on Tuesday by AARP New York found that a lack of affordable and accessible housing in rural areas compounded with a lack of public transportation make it hard for old New Yorkers living in the country to age in place. The housing problem has been made dramatically worse by the pandemic, the study found.
