Adelphi reopens. School to be Housing.

Fed spending: Medicaid cuts and NYS taxes

Jul 03, 2025

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Adelphi Hotel reopens

The Adelphi Hotel on Broadway in Saratoga Springs has reopened, just in time for track season, as hoped, the Daily Gazette is reporting. After the ownership purchased adjacent buildings, the hotel boasts 65 guest rooms, up from 32, and includes 79 luxury condos.

Former Glenville elementary school to become housing

Schenectady County will demolish long-vacant Glenhaven Elementary School and develop the 38-acre property for housing, the Daily Gazette is reporting. The county will use a $1 million Empire State Development grant to demolish the building that town officials call an “eyesore” and that has been the target of vandalism in recent years.

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Medicaid cuts: Local hospitals will hurt

The omnibus spending bill wending its way through Congress on its way to President Donald Trump’s desk will will have sweeping financial consequences for the state’s hospitals, the Times-Union is reporting. Hundreds of thousands of New York state residents could lose health coverage, the health officials say. Republican support for the measure says that they are targeting waste, fraud and abuse, but the Congressional Budget Office says the cuts are too massive and will necessarily remove people in need of the help.

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More NYS taxes to be deducted federally

Eight years ago Republicans in Congress voted to cap, and President Donald Trump signed into law, the SALT deductions that New Yorkers and people in other states could claim on their taxes, and the new omnibus spending bill, the “Big Beautiful Bill” as it is called, will reverse that change, allowing New Yorkers a $40,000 deduction on their federal taxes, the Times-Union says. SALT is the state and local tax deduction. The paper is saying that New York Republicans in the House of Representatives held back support for the bill unless the change was reversed. The bill is set for a final vote in the House.

At this hour: Traffic, weather and the markets

Weather

Expect the high temperatures to hit the low- or mid-80-degree mark with a 50-50 chance of thunderstorms anytime, according to the National Weather Service’s Albany office. At this hour (about 7 a.m.), the Weatherbug app shows t-storms sliding off Lake Erie and covering the Syracuse-to-Watertown corridor and into the western Adirondacks.

Traffic

Look for horses! According to Google Maps, traffic is slow along Union Avenue at the Saratoga Race Course at one of the places the ponies stride by.

Premarket trading

Stock futures are up by small percentages this morning, according to numbers from Marketwatch. The Wall Street Journal says everything is tentative as investors await reports including the unemployment figures.

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