By Susan Arbetter New York State PUBLISHED 5:01 PM ET Jan. 07, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:01 PM EST Jan. 07, 2021
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Roy Gutterman spends his days thinking about the First Amendment and freedom of speech. He should. He gets paid for it as the director of the Newhouse School s Tully Center for Free Speech at Syracuse University.
When asked about Wednesday’s mass insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, he said that, to his mind, it’s clear there were people who crossed the line from political protest into violence. However, he said, that “line” continues to evolve.
According to Gutterman, the current legal standard was first enshrined in a 1919 Supreme Court decision called Schenck v. U.S., which dealt with the distribution of 15K leaflets protesting the country’s involvement in WWI.
Supply vs. Demand as COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Continues PUBLISHED 7:36 PM ET Jan. 07, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:36 PM EST Jan. 07, 2021
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New York is continuing its rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, and this week the list of those eligible broadened to include home care workers.
Kathy Febraio, president of the New York State Association of Health Care Providers, said it has been challenging at times for certain workers to schedule an appointment due to limited availability.
“Some days it seems like it is working at the speed of light and other days it’s just a work in progress,” Febraio explained.
However, next week the list of vaccination sites will be expanded, allowing home care workers more flexibility when it comes to scheduling.
By Susan Arbetter City of Albany PUBLISHED 6:47 PM ET Jan. 07, 2021 PUBLISHED 6:47 PM EST Jan. 07, 2021
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“Patients are getting slaughtered. People are having their wages garnished, the whole nine-yards,” Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of health initiatives at the Community Service Society, told
Capital Tonight.
According to Benjamin, the hospitals were going after patients with outstanding bills of very small amounts.
“We pointed out that the hospitals get $1.2 billion to provide financial assistance to patients and in none of the lawsuits did they actually offer these patients financial assistance,” Benjamin said.
Fast forward to November 2020. That’s when Benjamin said her organization realized that the very same hospitals were continuing to sue patients through the pandemic, when many of them had lost
Renewed Calls for Texit Are Growing. Will They Go Anywhere? By Sabra Ayres Texas
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TEXAS Secessionist talk in Texas makes news about once a year, and each time it does, Daniel Miller, the president of the state’s loudest independence movement, is surprised by the media’s alarmist headlines.
“Folks kinda freak out when we pop up, and it s like. guys, we ve been at this a long time,” said Miller, the head of the Texas Nationalist Movement. “We ve been at this as an organization since 2005. We’re in it for the long haul.”
But this year’s calls for a “Texit,” a localized play on the term for Britain’s exit from the European Union, came with a bit more heft, thanks to some big state and national Republican figures weighing in on the idea on the heels of a presidential election that saw President Donald Trump refuse to concede to his Democratic challenger, J