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PAGE A-2 THE POST-STANDARD SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 2016 postscript THE LIST IMAGES OF CNY See more photos on syracuse.com/photo NEW YORK’S CHOICE Interest in New York state’s A FURRY LITTLE PEEP presidential primary elections is already building and should intensify between now and April 19, when both Republicans and Democrats will have a say about their parties’ tickets. It’s been 16 years since both parties held a meaningful primary in the same year in New York. And in only one of the eight primaries listed below (2008 Democratic) did New York support a candidate who did not go on to become the party’s nominee that year. NY PRIMARY RESULTS 2012 REPUBLICAN 2000 DEMOCRATIC Mitt Romney 62.7 percent Al Gore 65.6 Ron Paul 14.6 Bill Bradley 33.5 Newt Gingrich 12.6 2000 REPUBLICAN 2008 DEMOCRATIC George W. Bush 50.3 Hillary Clinton 57.4 John McCain 43.5 Barack Obama 40.3 1996 REPUBLICAN 2008 REPUBLICAN Robert Dole 55.6 John McCain 51.6 Malcolm Forbes 29.3 Mitt Romney 27.6 Pat Buchanan 15.1 Mike Huckabee 10.6 1992 DEMOCRATIC 2004 DEMOCRATIC Bill Clinton 40.1 John Kerry 61.2 Paul Tsongas 28.6 John Edwards 20.1 Edmund Brown 26.2 THEPSQUIZ 1. The State Legislature has taken action to make New York the last state in the union to legalize: Ellen M. Blalock / [email protected] a. Mixed martial arts. b. Mixed theater arts. Regular visitors to this PostScript page may have recognized we are suckers for photos of baby c. Mixed marriages. animals at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo. This Humboldt penguin chick, the offspring of Veinte andIsa,is d. Same-sex divorce. the sixth born here in the past four months. Zookeepers, who weren’t yet certain of the chick’s gender, plan to hold a contest asking the community to offer names for the new one. Details to follow. 2. Mayor Stephanie Miner has refused to make public the overtime pay records of former police Sgt. Tom Connellan. When asked if Miner was correct that releasing the records could interfere with his prosecution of Connellan on a BY THE NUMBERS IN THEIR WORDS grand larceny charge, DA WIlliam Fitzpatrick said: 6,000 a. Number of doses of “You’re darned tootin’.” Finding fentanyl fentanyl discovered b. “I can neither confirm nor deny that.” by police during a raid “We’re putting this c. “Not in the slightest.” The Onondaga County Sheriff’s Wednesday at a suburban d. “Could you repeat the question?” Department made its biggest bust ever home in Clay. involving fentanyl, a drug that has the behind us same effect as heroin but can be 50 times more powerful, putting users at a $60,000 3. It was announced last week that Cheap Trick will make higher risk of death. The estimated value of and moving a return appearance in Central New York this summer. Drug dealers have started slipping the 47.7 grams of fentanyl What will be the venue for their concert? fentanyl into bags of heroin sold to discovered in the raid. a. The Lakeview Amphitheater. addicts to cut costs and increase the forward.” b. The Taste of Syracuse. potency of their product. Some heroin addicts have no idea they are using 6 — STEVE THOMPSON, MAJORITY c. The number of people LEADER OF THE SYRACUSE COMMON Chevy Court. fentanyl. Others who recognize the d. facing drug charges after COUNCIL, AFTER CITY HALL COMPUTER ACCESS WAS Paper Mill Island. strength of the drug are starting to REINSTATED FOR COUNCILORS AND SEVERAL STAFFERS. the raid. Their ages are 38, THE COUNCIL HAD SPENT MORE THAN $13,000 ON TWO specifically seek out fentanyl instead of 22, 21, 19, 19 and 17. LAWSUITS CHALLENGING A COMPUTER-USE POLICY. ANSWERS heroin. Story, Page A-6. COUNCILORS HAVE NOW AGREED TO SIGN THE POLICY AND — Samantha House CITY HALL HAS AGREED THAT THE MAYOR CANNOT FIRE ePOST-STANDARD 03/27/20161-a; 2-c; 3-b ELECTED OFFICIALS. THOMPSON OPPOSED THE LAWSUITS. LOCAL HISTORY NEWSMAKERS Sugar Ray defended his title at the dome Park designers envision interaction with elements Each week, the Onondaga Historical Association looks back at important events: team of artists and landscape designers, led by Jerry van 35 years ago: On March 28, Eyck, of New York City, and 1981, Sugar Ray Leonard suc- Cecil Balmond, of London, cessfully defended his World Ahas delivered plans for a new pub- Boxing Council welterweight lic space in the Salina Street block title against Larry Bonds in called Perseverance Park. the Carrier Dome. A crowd of A prominent piece of the team’s 21,000, paying between $10 concept is a large sculpture on the and $60 for a ticket, was on park’s north end. Visitors will be hand. The fight was also shown able walk into the metal-ribbed live on HBO. Leonard was in piece, which is designed to inter- control for most of the fight, but act with the elements — gleaming Bonds, the 29-year-old south- sun, cascading rain, sticking snow. paw, put up a better fight than City spokesman Alexander most people expected against Marion said the goal is to com- the younger Leonard. In the plete the park by the end of end, Sugar Ray earned the 2017. The city will pay the team An artist’s rendering of how the new park could appear in front of the win with a technical knockout $288,000 to produce a schematic Chase Bank building on South Salina Street, which features a large moments after knocking Bonds design. The total cost of the proj- metal sculpture on the north end. (Provided photo) down in the 10th round. It was ect is estimated at about $3 mil- the biggest boxing match in lion, according to the Syracuse Syracuse since Carmen Basilio Urban Renewal Agency, which of New York City, and C&S intersection of Salina and Fayette knocked out Johnny Saxon for owns the park area. Engineers, of North Syracuse, in downtown Syracuse into a the World Welterweight crown The design team, which also heard input from local people at distinctive gathering place, a state- Sugar Ray Leonard is ruled the winner by TKO in 1956. includes lighting design firm two public events last fall. ment of pride for residents and a on March 28, 1981, in the Carrier Dome. (David Tillotson Design Associates, The idea is to make the key compelling attraction for visitors. 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