![Midterm Election Night: Republican incumbent John Katko retains his U.S. House seat on Nov. 6, 2018.](https://www.thenewshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/News/2018/Event-Coverage/ElectionDay2018/Nguyen_Election-5-768x512.jpg)
The Republican incumbent won his re-election bid over the Syracuse University professor by 6 percentage points
![Anthony Brindisi campaign event on Nov. 6, 2018, at the Delta Hotel in Utica, N.Y.](https://www.thenewshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/Unorganized/IMG_2062-768x534.jpg)
Democracy in Action reporters talked to local voters about a possible ‘blue wave’ and the millennial vote.
!["Vote here" sign points voters to polling stations](https://www.thenewshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/Unorganized/votehere-768x511.jpg)
In the final days before the election, Dana Balter has $621,000 in campaign funds while John Katko has $522,000.
![Lead paint peeling off a Syracuse house, posing a potential risk of lead poisoning](https://www.thenewshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/Unorganized/Lead2-768x386.jpg)
About 75 percent of homes in Syracuse were built before lead paint was banned.
![San Francisco area housing issue](https://www.thenewshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/Unorganized/matt-safian-361285-unsplash-768x512.jpg)
Rising rents, a shifting population and lack of affordable housing — the rocky Bay Area housing market has left little room for those 65 and older.
![Vanishing Act](https://www.thenewshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/News/2018/News-Features/Circus_VanishingAct/moreo_placefinal-01-768x512.jpg)
Among the last of its kind in the United States, the Garden Brothers Circus consists of about 12 acts, 30 human performers and 15 animals.
![2018 Vera House Community Report](https://www.thenewshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/Unorganized/image001-768x413.png)
As the country stews in the Kavanaugh hearing’s aftermath, Vera House is working to build community prevention programming for sexual assault survivors.
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In spite of national trends nixing anti-panhandling laws from the books, Syracuse Chairman Ryan McMahon recently introduced legislation to ban “aggressive” panhandling that could level panhandlers with fines or jail time.
![A yellow shirt-clad instructor from Wacheva's Dancing and Drumming Group leads participants through a Zumba dance on the Harvard Dance Stage at the 27th annual Westcott Street Cultural Fair. Wacheva is an organization that "presents and supports multicultural dance, drum, and fitness programming in the Central New York community," according to their website.](https://www.thenewshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/VIS361-GITNER/WestcottFestival2018/APC_0033-768x436.jpg)
The 27th annual community festival showcased what Syracuse has to offer through food, art and performances.
![Hurricane Maria damage in Puerto Rico in September 2018](https://www.thenewshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/Unorganized/Ricardo1-768x576.jpg)
Ricardo Loubriel González remembers the hurricane on his home island of Puerto Rico that left him and his family without food, water or electricity for weeks.