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Politics

Keene school budget fails

KEENE — Voters in the Keene Central School District rejected a $9.3 million proposed budget at the polls on Tuesday, and elected two newcomers to fill two vacant school board seats. The proposed budget carried a 4.65% tax levy increase that would have been above the state-imposed 3.03% ...

Fadden, Murphy win election to Lake Placid school board

LAKE PLACID — Voters in the Lake Placid Central School District passed a $23.1 million budget for the coming school year by a wide margin on Tuesday, and elected two new board members — Christopher Fadden, who was on the ballot, and Stephanie Murphy, who was a write-in ...

SLCSD budget passes easily

SARANAC LAKE — Voters in the Saranac Lake Central School District passed a $38.1 million budget for the coming year by a wide margin on Tuesday and reelected school board Chair Mark Farmer and Member Zachary Randolph, who were running uncontested. There were a total of 519 voters in the ...

Trump goes with his gut and the world goes along for the ride

WASHINGTON — After President Donald Trump reversed course on his tariffs and announced he would pursue trade negotiations, he had a simple explanation for how he would make decisions in the coming weeks. “Instinctively, more than anything else,” he told reporters this past week. ...

Trump team tries to project confidence after tariffs rattled markets

ATLANTA — Trump administration officials were out in force across the television networks Sunday defending President Donald Trump’s economic policies after another week of reeling markets that saw the Republican administration reverse course on some of its steepest tariffs. White House ...