Ryan McMahon

A tax cut and continued initiatives to help youth are the cornerstone of Onondaga County Ryan McMahon’s proposed budget for 2023.

Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon is nominating Dr. Kathryn Anderson from Upstate Medical University to take over the role.

Central New York students are having a very different back to school experience compared to last year, as many of the COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted. But the virus has not gone away.

After a contentious meeting, Onondaga County lawmakers narrowly approved County Executive Ryan McMahon’s plan to build an $85 million aquarium in Syracuse’s Inner Harbor.

County Executive Ryan McMahon has been publicly pushing for the $85 million project since last fall, but hasn’t been able to move ahead amidst strong political opposition. Getting the votes for the project may come down to serious deal-making.

The Onondaga County Legislature holds its monthly meeting Tuesday, with no sight of a controversial plan to build an aquarium in Syracuse’s Inner Harbor on the agenda. But the project's biggest booster is still optimistic.

Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon presented some new ideas and talked about some old ideas as he outlined how central New York will rise from the pandemic in his annual State of the County speech Wednesday evening.

With gas prices continuing to surge in New York, state and local lawmakers in central New York have proposed cutting or capping gas taxes as one way to ease the pain at the pump.

Onondaga County is pushing back on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to wait until early March to determine whether to drop a mask mandate in schools.

Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon said Wednesday the seemingly random decisions about mask mandates shows one area government has fallen short in the pandemic.