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The Section 2 champions have been crowned. The celebrations were fun but it is back to business for some Capital Region high school boys basketball teams. The next goal will be winning a state championship. The New York State Public High School Athletic Association has set the brackets. Let's see who, when and where are the Capital Region champions going.

The Section 2 champions have been crowned. The celebrations were fun but it is back to business for some Capital Region high school boys basketball teams. The next goal will be winning a state championship. The New York State Public High School Athletic Association has set the brackets. Let's see who, when and where are the Capital Region champions going.

The Section 2 champions have been crowned. The celebrations were fun but it is back to business for some Capital Region high school boys basketball teams. The next goal will be winning a state championship. The New York State Public High School Athletic Association has set the brackets. Let's see who, when and where are the Capital Region champions going.

On December 22, 2021, the New York State Department of Labor ("NYDOL") issued a proposed rule regarding workplace safety committees under the HERO Act.

New York employers may need to change their approach to workplace health and safety rules significantly under the New York Health and Essential Rights Act HERO Act signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo on May 5, 2021.

Supreme Court appears to favor upholding voting laws lower court found unfair to minorities Robert Barnes, The Washington Post March 2, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed inclined to make it more difficult to challenge widely used voting laws that in practice might be more of a burden to minority voters. The justices spent two hours in a teleconference hearing reviewing the protections provided by the Voting Rights Act, first passed in 1965 to forbid law...

>> also african-american. >> also african-american and the first african-american woman living at the intersection of those multiple identities and a southerner. how effective can her doj be in using section 2 in pushing against the very things amy is referring to here? >> well theyre going to need to be more proactive because the court has gutted section 5, the preclearance provision to some extent because it didnt like the formula in another section, section 4. but heres another thing courts c...

Rights act should be the john lewis renewal act and in fact the supreme court said oh that voting rights act, thats so 1960s. were beyond that. you used a phrase living document. heres how we can actually revise the voting rights act because the court struck down a provision that said youre using old data for which states were compliant so lets update the database. >> and thats not a completely unfair critique. of all the things the court said in it its not completely unfair to suggest that the ...

Suppression efforts. >> what happens now if a state is really egregious, like you have to have so much documentation, you wear people out, they say, look, im 80 years old, im not going to get my papers figured out at this age. im not going to go to whatever office i have to go to, i have been voting all my life. people know me at the voting station, im not going to bother. does this wear voters out is this is that what this is about. >> this is an added burden for voters, especially for voters w...