Phoebe Taylor-Vuolo, Report for America corps member

Visiting hours at the Broome County Correctional Facility will be expanded from 15 to 30 hours a week, according to an announcement from Sheriff Fred Akshar Monday. The change comes amid a prolonged fight over visitation rights at the jail.

New York state is still sorting out how to spend over $2 billion in opioid settlement money from pharmaceutical companies, which played a role in the opioid crisis. Southern Tier counties, many still battered by rising overdose rates, are deciding how best to spend funds they’ve received from signing on to settlements.

At school-based health centers, children can get check-ups, shots, and basic health care, all inside the school building. When COVID first hit in 2020, New York’s schools shut down, but many of the small doctor’s offices inside of them didn’t.

Despite a recommendation from the state’s Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Board, Governor Kathy Hochul’s administration has announced it will not be funding overdose prevention centers.

According to the Broome County Sheriff’s office, Nicolas Skiba, 42, and Keith Hall, 28, were each charged with five counts of criminal possession of a weapon. The incident and subsequent investigation led to lockout measures at local schools and hospitals.

“If you have access to health care right away, in your own community, it's much better than having to be transported for 45 minutes, an hour or longer to care."

Before the legislation, hospitals and medical providers could put liens on patients’ homes or take up to 10 percent of their paychecks to collect on unpaid medical bills. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation last week prohibiting those collection practices, effective immediately.

"They leave the majority of their items: houses, cars, clothing, everything. They leave it behind, and they just come here."

"The housing situation is just so, so bad that people will live by the river rather than wait in the nursing home for an apartment to open up."

Webb leads by less than two percentage points, or 1,500 votes over David.