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With barely three weeks to go until Primary Day, Porterfield's campaign to become Schenectady's mayor hit a new low at T...
03/06/2023

With barely three weeks to go until Primary Day, Porterfield's campaign to become Schenectady's mayor hit a new low at Thursday night's debate

Last night's Democratic Mayoral debate between incumbent Gary McCarthy and City Council President Marion Porterfield was not for the faint o...

A potential clue about the Niskayuna Town Board's decision to bypass Deputy Chief Mike Stevens for promotion to the top ...
05/08/2020

A potential clue about the Niskayuna Town Board's decision to bypass Deputy Chief Mike Stevens for promotion to the top job after the suspension of Dan McManus has surfaced in the form of a previously settled federal lawsuit, alleging that Stevens ignored the critical medical needs of a teenage petty larceny detainee with a cracked skull and brain bleed https://schenectadyobserver.blogspot.com/2020/08/federal-suit-michael-stevens-nisky.html

Michael Stevens, Niskayuna’s Deputy Chief of Police, who was conspicuously passed over for the department’s top job after Chief Dan McManu...

Fran Wall, Niskayuna's newly appointed interim police chief, overcame a culture of sexual discrimination to reach the de...
02/08/2020

Fran Wall, Niskayuna's newly appointed interim police chief, overcame a culture of sexual discrimination to reach the department's top job

Niskayuna’s newly appointed police chief, Fran Wall, overcame a mountain of obstacles to become the first woman to lead a police depart...

Joy's incendiary remarks are likely to cause political trouble for her allies up for re-election this fall, most notably...
25/09/2019

Joy's incendiary remarks are likely to cause political trouble for her allies up for re-election this fall, most notably Niskayuna Supervisor Yasmine Syed, a close friend and fellow evangelical who has for years been a senior member of Joy's Republican Women's Club and serves alongside Joy as Co-Vice Chair of the County Republican Committee.

In a video unearthed by the Observer, Republican congressional candidate and Schenectady County Republican Committee vice-chair Liz Lem...

Glenville Supervisor Chris Koetzle and Town Attorney Michael Cuevas, ex-County GOP boss and current Supreme Court nomine...
15/09/2019

Glenville Supervisor Chris Koetzle and Town Attorney Michael Cuevas, ex-County GOP boss and current Supreme Court nominee, are prominent beneficiaries of Ranalli's contributions

State Board of Elections records reveal that ex-Glenville Police Chief Michael Ranalli , the author of a controversial rebuttal report c...

Schenectady County Judge Matt Sypniewski sentenced the notorious local criminal to 18 months in jail for killing his nei...
15/09/2019

Schenectady County Judge Matt Sypniewski sentenced the notorious local criminal to 18 months in jail for killing his neighbor’s cat, Smokey

County Judge Matt Sypniewski has sentenced notorious local criminal Donnie Birch to 18 months in jail for viciously beating his neighbor...

The Democratic lawyer is set to join the bench on January 1, but that doesn’t mean his current job as the city’s chief l...
11/09/2019

The Democratic lawyer is set to join the bench on January 1, but that doesn’t mean his current job as the city’s chief lawyer has gotten any easier

One of the more interesting campaigns to watch in the 2019 cycle has been that of a candidate with no opponent: Schenectady Corporation ...

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