County Planner Discusses The Comprehensive Plan

Steuben County Planner Marie Myers was on Community Focus today, talking about the new County Comprehensive Plan.  The comprehensive plan is on the county’s website.  Please click the link below to read more about it.

https://www.steubencountyny.gov/688/Comprehensive-Plan-Project

 

A Congressional Town Hall Is Being Held Tonight 

Congressman Nick Langworthy is having a telephone town hall tonight at 8:30.  The number to call in at 8:30 tonight is, 833-380-0618. 

 

The Elmira IRS Taxpayer Assistance Center Is Now Open 

The Internal Revenue Service today announced the Taxpayer Assistance Center (TAC) in Elmira, New York, is now open at 147 West Gray St., Suite 108, in Elmira. Paid parking and public transportation are available at this location.  They say that all taxpayer assistants with the IRS work by appointment. To schedule an appointment at the Elmira TAC, call 844-545-5640. The office is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

 

Schumer And Gillibrand: Getting Women Better Pay
Democrat US Senator Kirsten Gillbrand says, 15 years ago we passed the Lily Ledbetter Act, but Gillibrand says, women are still paid on the average, 84 cents for every dollar paid to men, and she says, it’s worse for many women of color.  Gillibrand says, it’s time to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act.    "Now the Senate Democrats are working to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, to build on Obama’s Lily Ledbetter Act and ensure equal pay for equal work," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. 

 

Palmesano: What The HALT Act Does To Prisoners

During a recent New York State Budget Hearing, Corning Republican Assemblyman Phil Palmesano asked the New York State Prison Guard Union Director Chris Summers, about how the state’s Humane Alternatives To Long Term Solitary ACT, known as the HALT Act, is affecting the less violent inmates.   The Prison Guard Union Leader explained that the HALT Act makes it so the general prison population, who are less violent, often temporarily lose access to prison privileges, because the guards have to focus on more dangerous inmates, when violent inmates are taken into what is called the ROU area.  ROU stands for Residential Rehabilitation Unit, which is supposed to be a punishment area of the prison.  (Since the HALT Act was passed two years ago, the ROU takes the place of the former solitary unit.)   According to the Prison Guard Union Director Chris Summers, the ROU is actually in some ways,. actually, the better place for inmates to be, because the inmates get to use WIFI.   "Up in the ROU Programs, the inmates who are taken there get to see the administration, clergy, the nurses, staff, and they have access to WIFI," Summers told Assemblyman Palmesano.