Also, woman who was eight months pregnant found on fire in Ontario County, and Syracuse University ponders becoming a smoke-free campus.
View full sizePresident Barack Obama is photographed after delivering a televised address from the Oval Office of the White House. From Reuters:
Can President Barack Obama become a political bridge-builder? That's the role he is facing when an expected surge of new Republicans comes to Washington after next week's congressional elections.Battles are expected over budgets, taxes and deficits, and Obama will try to guard his signature policy victories -- the overhaul of healthcare and financial regulation -- from being shredded by Republicans who want to limit government's role.
And Republicans are likely to try to confound any extensive energy legislation, forcing Obama to scale back his ambitions for carbon emission cuts to address climate change.
» Read the story: Analysis: Can Obama bridge partisan divide? [Reuters]
» GOP poised to win redistricting supremacy, too [The Washington Post]
» Why independent voters are abandoning the Democrats [The Christian Science Monitor]
» GOP's 2012 Strategy Against Obama [U.S. News & World Report]
» Why it matters: Elections outside your state can affect you [CNN Politics]
» Twelve Senate races to watch [Reuters]
In other news:
» Deputies release ID of woman found burning in Ontario County [Rochester Democrat and Chronicle]
» Syracuse University partners with Onondaga County to explore possibility of becoming smoke-free campus [The Daily Orange]
» Workers fall from WKTV’s tower in Oneida County [centralny,ynn.com]
» Hotel Utica avoids foreclosure [Utica Observer-Dispatch]
» DeWitt-based Community Bank System to acquire Wilber Corp. [Central New York Business Journal]
» Architecture firm in Syracuse unveils its new green roof [CNYcentral.com]
» Candlelit tour of downtown Watertown steeped in legends of ghosts, murders [Watertown Daily Times]