Government

The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending all states adopt a proposal to lower the blood-alcohol content  limit from .08 to .05

Such a move could ultimately change the definition of drunk-driving.

The Safety Board says it's an effort to save lives but attorney and DWI Expert, Ed Fiandach, says the proposal is "a bad move."

Monroe County Clerk Cheryl Dinolfo says even though there's a Wednesday deadline for gun owners to submit forms to keep their information private, her office won't be releasing those details right now, even if the forms haven't been filed.

Dinolfo says under the state's new gun law, she doesn't have to start releasing those details until all of the opt-out forms have been processed.

She says that there's a big backlog right now of those forms at the clerk's office, with about 17-thousand forms to process.

Governor Cuomo outlined his proposal for a new local government restructuring board to help financially distressed communities deal with long term budget problems.

Cuomo offered more details of his previously announced plan to set up a restructuring board to help local governments on the brink of insolvency.

Lawmakers in Albany tried to carry on business in the wake of one of the worst scandals in recent decades, that has overshadowed most other news coming out of the Capitol.  Much of this week’s legislative session has been cancelled, but politicians who were in town insisted that their agendas are not being derailed.

In the State Senate, two members have been indicted, and a former Senator was sentenced to a year in jail in recent weeks, while six other Senators are potentially under federal investigation.

Rochester city officials have welcomed 21 new firefighters to the ranks in what they say is the most diverse of any class in the history of the department. Minorities and women make up 57 percent of the class.

The recruitment was the result of a comprehensive campaign to improve diversity in the Department.  It involved the Administration and City Council and included the support of 11 different city churches.