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14 hours ago | dailyfreeman.com | Mike Stobbe |Geoff Mulvihill

By MIKE STOBBE and GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated PressThere were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded. An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Wednesday. That’s down 27% from the 110,000 in 2023. The CDC has been collecting comparable data for 45 years.

2 days ago | dailyfreeman.com | Paul Kirby

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Tax credit incentives contained in the state’s 2026 adopted budget have drawn a lukewarm reception from the Hudson Valley Film Commission. In an email, the commission’s executive director, Laurent Rejto, took a wait-and-see position on revisions to the NYS Film Tax Credit Program. “Competition from other states remains a major factor so […]

2 days ago | dailyfreeman.com | Paul Kirby

KINGSTON, N.Y. — An energy watchdog group and a retired workers association are criticizing the state’s 2026 adopted budget for leaving out additional funding to make energy costs more affordable. The Public Utility Law Project and the New York chapter of the American Association for Retired  People issued a statement that said they are distressed […]

3 days ago | dailyfreeman.com | Paul Kirby

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Assemblymember Sarahana Shrestha and other local Democrats hailed the 2026 budget’s inclusion of an affordable housing program that they say will provide voucher subsidies to help house the homeless and those at risk of becoming so. Shrestha, D-Esopus, and other local Democrats pinpointed their praise on the Housing Access Voucher Program. “Despite […]

3 days ago | dailyfreeman.com | Rick Remsnyder

Sliding mitts are baseball’s ‘must-have,’ even if at youth levels, they’re all fashion, no function