Just Announced: 2024-2025 Appointments

For Immediate Release “It is my honor to inform you that the state of our county is strong and it is resilient.” Legislator Mark Olson was in the audience as Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon started his 2025 State of the County Address with that statement, before spending an hour detailing the progress the county…

At this month’s meeting of the Public Safety Committee, District Attorney William Fitzpatrick came to ask the committee to accept $3 million from New York State – payment, if you will – to cover his office’s work in two high-profile cases you’ve probably heard about in the news.  The D.A. was appointed by the N.Y.S…

My Legislative Update for Spring 2024 is now available.

A new countywide program to help keep your kids safe when getting on and off their school bus launched this week, and I’m proud to have played a part in it. I joined government leaders and school district officials at the ESM Transportation Center on Monday to announce the initial rollout of the Onondaga County…

UPDATE: The local law passed at Session, so this now will go before the voters this fall. I am co-sponsoring a local law which will be considered at our August Session. If it passes, both length of term and term limits for Onondaga County Legislators will be on the ballot this November. This will allow…

This morning, I marked the 24th anniversary of 9/11 by attending a remembrance ceremony at Syracuse’s Forman Park. Part of it was 17 minutes of silence – that’s the length of time between when the planes crashed into the Twin Towers. I would like to thank the Syracuse Police Department and the Syracuse Fire Department…