Maurice Brown

County lawmakers this week divorced themselves from approving additional public money for the controversial project, leaving the county executive to raise the rest.

The slight revisions follow a court order to accommodate 1,600 incarcerated individuals in state prisons outside of the county. But Democrats hoped to make more significant changes.

Lawmakers made some budget-neutral changes to to the county executive's proposal earlier in the process, but other amendments pushed by Democrats Tuesday were rejected.

15th district legislator Maurice Brown is holding a town hall meeting on Monday, March 18th at the Westcott Community Center.

Leaders of African American groups in Syracuse are detailing why they support voting for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential election. Their reasons…