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Northern New York residents continue to carefully navigate the uncertainties of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

REGISTER NOW Despite an improving fiscal picture that includes higher bond ratings, New York City faces risks as it emerges from the darkest days of the pandemic, state and city fiscal watchdogs said. Those risks include the emerging of the COVID-19 Delta variant, the need for unspecified labor savings and a five-year capital program that might not be sustainable, said Michelle McManus, deputy director of the New York State Financial Control Board. The board, established during the city’s financial crisis during the 1970s and which still signs off on the city’s budget, remained in sunset ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS – Offering praise for outgoing city Finance Commissioner Michele Madigan, Adam Israel has announced an independent candidacy for city finance…

WATERTOWN — A state comptroller’s office review of how Jefferson County responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in its budgeting has given the county a clean bill of health.

WATERTOWN — A state comptroller’s office review of how Jefferson County responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in its budgeting has given the county a clean bill of health. In just a three-page finding released Friday, the office determined that county officials “adequately assessed the impact of the pandemic on financial operations” while creating its 2021 budget. “It was confirmation that we had our financial ducks in a row,” Jefferson County Board of Legislators Chairman Scott A. Gray said of the review’s findings. The office of Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli...