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Politics

Who will represent expanded District 6?

TUPPER LAKE — The two candidates running to represent the newly-expanded Franklin County District 6 — incumbent Paul Maroun and political newcomer Nedd Sparks — both say they want to help Tupper Lake from the county level, but they differ on what exactly Tupper Lake needs. Maroun is ...

Branch, Carr vie for county seat

SARANAC LAKE — The two candidates running for the Franklin County District 7 seat in the Nov. 8 election want voters to know that while there are four different names on the ballot, they are the only two still campaigning in the race. Jeff Branch is running on the independent “Common ...

Castelli: ‘Problems are solved from the middle’

In a virtual editorial board meeting with several North Country newspapers on Oct. 20, Matt Castelli, the Democratic NY-21 candidate running against incumbent Republican Elise Stefanik for her House seat, stayed mostly true to the “moderate” brand he’s promoting in this race. He was ...

Stefanik outlines top priorities

In a virtual editorial board meeting with several North Country newspapers on Oct. 20, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik said she wants to keep her House seat in the Nov. 8 election to lower inflation and continue opposing President Joe Biden and his “far-left agenda.” She says her opponent, ...

Biden zeroes in on economic message as campaign winds down

SYRACUSE — President Joe Biden zeroed in Thursday on economic issues as he fine-tuned his closing argument in upstate New York for voters trying to cope with raging inflation and fears of a recession heading into the Nov. 8 election. Biden’s visits to a congressional battleground in ...

Election Day is Nov. 8, but legal challenges already begin

WASHINGTON — Election Day is 11 days away. But in courtrooms across the country, efforts to sow doubt over the outcome have already begun. More than 100 lawsuits have been filed this year around the Nov. 8 elections. The legal challenges, largely by Republicans, target rules for mail-in ...