Joe Griffo

Following a surprise visit at Marcy Correctional Facility last week, State Senator Joseph Griffo has met with the acting commissioner of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS).

There are calls for lockdown at one upstate New York prison and a reversal of state policy as record violence continues at facilities statewide.

Local representatives unleashed a surge of negative comments to a State Supreme Court Justice this week after Oneida County was split up, excluding Utica and New Hartford form Senator Joe Griffo's new district.

The court appointed special master given the task of redrawing the gerrymandered district lines in the New York State Senate released his draft of the map late Monday and Senator Griffo's district is still split in Oneida County.

If you're doing some spring cleaning, you can literally dump-off and properly dispose of unwanted electronics and other items as a waste collection in Utica this month.

New York State Senator Joe Griffo might as well be telling people that Santa Claus is about to make another run through the area to double us up on gifts. I'd say the chances are better of that happening than his request that the majority in New York's Senate and Assembly do the "right" thing when it comes to redistricting.

Senator Joseph Griffo is urging Governor Hochul to sign the “Pharmacy Rescue Package.”

A World War II Veteran has been inducted into the New York State Senate Veteran's Hall of Fame. He is a resident of Whiteboro.

In recent years and even in recent weeks there has been a rise in antisemitic attacks in cities across New York State and for Senator Joe Griffo enough is enough.

As if gas prices weren't high enough and rising weekly, New York State is now proposing an additional gas tax for consumers.