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Corning Mayor Tom Reed, a Republican, will challenge Democratic Representative Eric Massa in the 2010 Congressional elections.

Tom Reed, 37, Corning's first-term Republican mayor, visited seven cities and towns Wednesday and Thursday to launch his 2010 campaign against Rep.

The race is starting early in the 29th Congressional District. Corning Mayor Tom Reed, a Republican, is expected to announce his candidacy today in Pittsford, 16 months before the 2010 election.

CORNING - A trip to Washington, D.C., by Corning city officials earlier this year has restored an $850,000 federal grant earmarked for the construction of a downtown transportation center.

We're going to learn a lot about Tom Reed in the next few weeks and months. Reed finds himself in much the same spot as Eric Massa did in 2005.

The Republican Party is courting Corning Mayor Tom Reed to run against freshman Democratic Congressman Eric Massa, according to the head of the National Republican Campaign Committee.

Corning City Republican Chairman Phil Palmesano announced today that he will seek the 2nd District Steuben County Legislature seat occupied by outgoing Democrat Fran Gehl.

Rep. Dan Maffei, a Democrat from the Syracuse suburb of DeWitt, topped New York's other four House freshmen in campaign fundraising in the first three months of this year.

All congressional candidates are required to file their first quarter Federal Election Commission fundraising reports by Wednesday night, an occasion that will lift the curtain on the 2010 candidates and provide insight into their ability to run competitive campaigns.

The National Republican Congressional Committee is launching robocalls in the 29th which will try to link Eric Massa with Nancy Pelosi.

New York Republicans tapped Assemblyman Brian Kolb to take Jim Tedisco's place as the state Assembly's Minority Leader today -- a move that has ramifications for a New York Congressional contest.

New York Democrat Eric Massa narrowly won a seat in Congress last year over opposition from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which said business had "no better friend" in Washington than his opponent, incumbent ...

New York Democrat Eric Massa narrowly won a seat in Congress last year over opposition from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , which said business had a oeno better frienda in Washington than his opponent, ...

They're called earmarks. In Washington speak, the term means money for specific projects in a House member's district or a senator's state.

Editor's note: Gannett has created an interactive database that contains all of the earmarks highlighted by the Taxpayers for Common Sense.

A newly released analysis of so-called earmarks or federal spending requests for specific Congressional Districts in New York finds a total of $ 726 Million in the 2009 Omnibus Spending Bill.

The American Prospect has a piece about netroots darling Darcy Burner. Burner lost the WA-8 race in '06 and '08 by almost identical margins, even though she received large donations from Act Blue, the netroots ...

One thing is for certain about school cafeteria food: Good or bad, it gets no respect.

There are two or three generations that separate kids and the veterans at the Bath VA Medical Center.

Contributions continued to flow late last year to the men and women who won Rochester-area congressional races Nov.