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Congressman Anthony Brindisi released a public letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today as it relates to Spectrum and a Plano, Texas, debt collection company they have partnered with named Credit Management L.P. Brindisi.
“Fighting Spectrum on rising rates also includes making sure they can’t use debt collection as another money-making tactic,” said Brindisi.“And the only way to get to the bottom of this is for the CFPB to ask the questions I outline in my letter.”
Brindisi, no stranger to fighting with Spectrum, is calling on the CFPB to…
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is denying individual assistance to residents in parts of the Mohawk Valley, affected by severe flooding from a devastating Halloween storm that hit last year, which damaged 1,100 homes in Oneida County. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he’ll appeal the decision.
Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente called it an unconscionable decision.
“I have to believe when you see a house go down a river, when you see a house hanging over an embankment, when you see homes full of two feet of mud and four feet of water, in their living spaces, when is it enough for…
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Although the antique big shows of 2020 haven’t come yet, many of the shops on and around the Route 20 corridor from Madison to Bouckville are still open — and offering a destination for antique and collectibles shoppers from all over.
“We want people to know there are still shops open and activities going on during the winter,” said Lynn Harvey, owner of the Victorian Rose Vintage shop on Route 20. “People don’t have to drive anywhere else to go out and have an adventure.”
Her shop is now open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays during the winter season, Harvey said. She…
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New York City, NY: January 06, 2019 – Published via (Wired Release) – Research Report studies Deep analysis of the Global Instant Noodles Market primarily based upon factors on which the companies compete in the business, key trends and segmentation study. Instant Noodles Market report analyses current market bearings along with future market scope. The research study helps to analyze the changes in market dynamics and regional market volume. This report will help to know the business opportunities in the Instant Noodles Market in the coming years. The report offers key insights…
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Jan 2, 2020 at 12:13 AM
UTICA — One person was ticketed and another brought to the hospital following a two-car accident around 5 p.m. Wednesday in Utica.
Police say it appears a driver traveling south on the Arterial went through a red light at an intersection; the individual was ticketed for failure to obey a traffic control device.
The Utica police and fire departments were at the scene of the accident. Both cars were towed due to the damage; police say one…
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Last minute holidaymakers can save up to 63 per cent on the price of a city break by departing in January or February, research shows.
The average price per person, per night for a short-haul city break for flights and a three or four star hotel in December is £179.60.
However, this drops to just £60 this month, according to data from holiday comparison site, TravelSupermarket, meaning bargain hunters can grab top deals.
Big Apple: New York is one of the destinations with the biggest discounts at the beginning of the year
It also shows that Krakow has become bargain-loving Britons’…
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JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — The mayor of a New Jersey city said Wednesday it’s “clear” that gunmen targeted a kosher market during a furious shooting that killed six people and raised questions about whether anti-Semitism was involved.
A police officer, three bystanders and two suspects all died in the violence Tuesday afternoon in Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from New York City. The 40-year-old slain officer, Detective Joseph Seals, who led the department in the number of illegal guns removed from the streets in recent years, was cut down by gunfire that erupted…
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According to the latest New York State Gaming Commission report, the state’s four commercial sportsbooks generated gross gaming revenue of just $1.3m during November. [Image: Shutterstock.com]
The four commercial sportsbooks currently operating in the New York market experienced a 40.9% drop in revenue during November.
The sportsbooks generated a total gross gaming revenue of just $1.3m for the month. This was the lowest monthly revenue period since sports betting was rolled out in the state back in July.
Since sports betting kicked off in New York on July 16, there…
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HELPING OUT FOR THE HOLIDAYS: The Post-Standard and Syracuse.com’s annual campaign raises money for the Christmas Bureau, which uses the donations to provide food baskets, toys and books to needy families. This year, volunteers are aiming to…
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Congress has finalized National Defense Authorization Act legislation which includes several items secured by local federal representatives, including millions for Rome Lab.
The House of Representatives is slated to vote on the NDAA on Wednesday and the Senate is expected to vote on it early next week. The NDAA would then go to President Donald Trump for his signature if passed by both houses.
Congressman Anthony Brindisi worked to secure $18 million for Air Force Research Lab, also known as Rome Lab.
Brindisi, D-Utica, said he secured $8 million for a Quantum Innovation Center…
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“It seemed to me an insult to the dignity of patients that they would get no more than uncertain, makeshift, last-resort medicine,” he wrote in a 2009 article for the website and journal Health Affairs. “Worse, the term, trotted out antiseptically in policy circles, seemed a capitulation to doing anything better for the medically disenfranchised and a happy codification of the idea that haphazard, second-class care was part of the American way of life.”
His interests extended beyond the United States. A study he led found in 2005 that Africa and the Caribbean were losing large…
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Seven more women have come forward with accounts of unwanted sexual touching by the actor Cuba Gooding Jr. going back to 2003, prosecutors said in court documents, bringing the number of his accusers to 22.
Mr. Gooding, 51, has been charged with groping three of the women at Manhattan restaurants and nightclubs in 2018 and 2019. The other 19 have accused him of unwanted contact; those accusations, which come from several states, have not resulted in charges because, for the most part, they took place too long ago. But prosecutors in Manhattan are hoping to persuade a judge to allow the…
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Congress is throwing heat at Major League Baseball to strike out a plan to cut more than 40 minor league teams from the MLB farm system.
Without support from MLB, the teams are likely to fold, leaving smaller cities and towns around the country with empty ballparks.
Congressman Anthony Brindisi, D-New York, is ramping up efforts to save those teams, like the Binghamton Rumble Ponies in his home district, which is in danger of losing its affiliation with the New York Mets.
“Minor League Baseball is so important to many small cities across the country,…
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(WBNG) Binghamton- Emergency units were rushing to the scene of a house fire in Binghamton early Tuesday morning.
Officials say they fire broke out at 8 Truesdell Street in the city around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday morning — causing severe damage to the home.
Multiple crews were at the scene including Binghamton Fire and Ambulance and Superior Ambulance.
Officials we spoke with at the scene didn’t give any information about possible injuries or what caused the fire in the first place. However, our 12 News crews did see Binghamton police officers putting…
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Dec 9, 2019 at 11:39 AM
Dec 9, 2019 at 3:02 PM
POLAND – State troopers haven’t released any details Monday morning that led to a heavy presence at the corner or Church and Military roads in the Town of Russia.
Media reports that a domestic incident last night led to state police being contacted.
On-scene authorities declined to give any information about the incident, which they were still calling an active scene Monday morning.
Snipers were seen walking from where the incident was…
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The state average is $2.23, which is 2 cents more than last week, 3 cents more than last month and 15 cents more than last year, according to AAA. The national average is $2.57, which is one penny less than last week, a nickel less than one month ago and 15 cents more than this time last year.
Most states saw minimal movement at the pump in the last week, AAA reported. Several saw decreases of up to 4 cents, while fewer than a dozen states saw gas prices increase.
“Since the end of October, gasoline demand has mostly decreased as gasoline stocks have mostly increased, paving the way for…
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Sporting T-shirts, tousled hair and backpacks, the trio slumped around a cafeteria table in the Taipei airport looked more like stranded students than a group of protesters on the run.
A few nights before, they were hurling Molotov cocktails on the front lines of the anti-government protests that have roiled Hong Kong for months. But after the police arrested two of their friends, they feared they would be next.
Desperate, they sent a cry for help to a private online group…
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