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NEW YORK (AP) — The threat of impeachment helped push New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to...

With Cuomo “Reeling” During Budget Season, State Lawmakers Are Poised To Take Power arrow Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins walks in the Senate Chamber as members meet on the opening day of the 2021 legislative session in Albany on January 6, 2021. Hans Pennink/AP/Shutterstock “I am the government,” Governor Andrew Cuomo famously declared in 2011 during his first term. The statement isn’t as hyperbolic as it sounds. The New York State Constitution a...

arrow Last March, as New York officials attempted to contain several dozen confirmed cases of COVID-19, the state legislature granted special new powers to Governor Andrew Cuomo to fight a pandemic that would soon kill hundreds of New Yorkers every day. Some of those same legislators who voted in favor of the powers are now calling to repeal them. Others say that Governor Cuomo should face impeachment hearings for decisions made using his new authority. How has Governor Cuomo used these powers?...

High CO2 is a good proxy for poor ventilation. This little instrument looks like it could be useful. * * * “A Reader’s Guide to Safety & Adverse Event Data From Vaccine Trials” [Hilda Bastian, PLOS]. Lots of good tips. Here’s one: “Solicited adverse events are a list of events/symptoms that participants are specifically asked to record. If that’s not done in a consistent, structured way, the rate of adverse events is likely to be under-estimated. The less thoroughly researchers look...

New York lawmakers will seek to curb the sweeping emergency powers afforded to Governor Andrew Cuomo in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic after backlash widened over how his administration handled nursing-home deaths.

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, they won widespread praise. But the political fortunes of governors Andrew Cuomo of New York and Gavin Newsom of California have sharply reversed.

SHARE: Even though Republican lawmakers only hold one-third of the seats in the state Legislature, they’re hoping to oust Gov. Andrew Cuomo over withholding information regarding nursing home deaths. On Thursday, the New York Post reported that Cuomo’s top aide Melissa DeRosa admitted to state legislators that the state had delayed revealing the total death count of nursing home residents from COVID-19. During a video conference with Democratic lawmakers, DeRosa confessed that “basically,...

Scientists and health experts know that in certain Rockland County communities, vaccine resistance runs strong. The measles epidemic that infected 1,300 people across 31 states in 2019 had a significant outbreak in Rockland, where 80% of people who contracted the disease lacked any measles vaccination whatsoever, according to county Health Department records. Together with rabbis, infectious disease experts and health clinics, the department launched an emergency campaign that delivered 30,0...

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After Legitimizing Trumps Election Lies, NYs Congressional Objectors Face Skittish Donors arrow Rioters trying to overturn the 2020 election surrounded and stormed the U.S. Capitol last week. Bryan Dozier/Shutterstock Hours after violent insurrectionists were finally cleared from the Capitol on January 6th, 147 Republican members of Congress voted to object to the electoral college victory of President-elect Joe Biden, undeterred in their allegiance to President Donald T...