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(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) We’ve always known that the left can dish it out, but they can’t take it – and the “Cuomo Watch” Twitter account hilariously made the point Thursday. As many recall, then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was kicked out of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia in June 2018 by co-owner Stephanie Wilkinson – supposedly at the urging of restaurant staff – because said staff and Wilkinson believed Sanders worked for an “inhumane and une...

Johnson Newspaper Corp., and the Enterprise staff Letitia James speaks to the Watertown Daily Times editorial board. (Enterprise photo — Sydney Schaefer, Watertown Daily Times) ALBANY — New York’s total COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes are about 42% more than what the state Department of Health previously published, according to a report from the state attorney general’s office released Thursday morning. The DOH confirmed the higher numbers that afternoon, releasing for the first tim...

Fingerlakes1.com Menu Peter is the creator and editor of The Water Front Online, the region’s only news organization dedicated to environmental issues in the Finger Lakes and Upstate New York. Have a tip? Send it to peter@fingerlakes1.com. For a decade, the Cuomo Administration has narrowly applied state environmental law to a pair of Finger Lakes industrial projects in ways that favor their out-of-state owners at the expense of those most likely to be harmed. The state DEC has not required ...

Unfortunately, despite the determination of Senate Republicans to move this process forward, no substantive action has been taken by the Senate Democratic Majority to understand how the flawed policies of the Murphy administration could be improved to better protect the tens of thousands of seniors, veterans, and residents with disabilities who live in LTC facilities across New Jersey. To date, nearly 8,000 residents and staff of our nursing homes and veterans homes have died, with the loss of ...

3:35 Several New York state Senators and Assembly members say they were surprised to learn that Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration does not provide internet access to people living in state-run group homes and other congregant settings, and they want that fixed immediately.  Senator James Skoufis, the chair of the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations, says two of his constituents alerted him to the lack of Wi-Fi at the state-run group homes. Phil and Maryann Smith’s d...

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky details the status of coronavirus vaccine production and distribution on Fox News Sunday A Queens nursing home in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak withheld potentially lifesaving vaccines from rehab patients, leaving a New York City councilman’s 96-year-old mother and others to catch the contagion. Dry Harbor Nursing Home in Middle Village — where 44 residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since Dec. 22 — vaccinated its long-term residents shortly ...

Remember the other day when we said New Yorkers would finally get some details from Gov. Andrew Cuomo on his plan for moving the state forward? Well…

Senator Joe Griffo is calling for an investigation the posting of a link that allowed New Yorkers to make appointments to receive the COVID-19 vaccine

Power Authority will take on Canals retiree health care liability Some retirees from both get free coverage in retirement FacebookTwitterEmail The states Canal Corp. came under the wing of the New York State Power Authority in 2017.Times Union file photo WHITE PLAINS — Leaders at the New York Power Authority on Tuesday agreed to shoulder the $342 million long-term budget liability for retirees from its subsidiary state Canal Corporation. Some retirees of both NYPA and the Canal Corp. get free...

Teachers and school staff on Monday became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in New York, but delays and errors accompanied Monday’s rollout of a new online…