![Transportation improvements taking shape under Biden administration]()
by Jay Silver | Feb 10, 2021 | Featured, Transportation
WASHINGTON — Regional transportation officials hope a $2 trillion infrastructure plan proposed by President Joe Biden’s administration will provide money to help them realize plans to increase the number of electric buses, ramp up road and bridge repairs and...
![Save Our Stages aid offers relief to local performing arts venues]()
by Jay Silver | Feb 2, 2021 | Business, Coronavirus, Featured
WASHINGTON — Local performing art venues are relieved to know help is on the way after Congress incorporated a $15 billion grant program for art and entertainment venues struggling financially from the pandemic into the most recent COVID-19 relief package....
![Environmentalists push for safe cleanup at nuclear site near Buffalo]()
by Jay Silver | Jan 21, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Environmental advocacy groups in western New York want state officials to ensure the safety of federal plans to deal with nuclear waste at the West Valley Demonstration Project after a recent federal report found that “critical decisions regarding the...
![New York local political leaders call Biden’s inauguration important for country, praise staging]()
by Jay Silver | Jan 21, 2021 | Featured, Inauguration, Politics
WASHINGTON — County Democratic officials in the Albany area on Wednesday praised President Joe Biden’s inaugural address for its repeated call for unity. They also were excited to watch Vice President Kamala Harris become the first woman to hold that position....
by Jay Silver | Jan 17, 2021 | Featured, Inauguration
WASHINGTON — The nearly 1,100 members of the New York National Guard deployed to Washington on Friday began their mission patrolling the Capitol building and its grounds, and working on traffic control ahead of Wednesday’s inauguration of President-elect...
