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The Dutchess County executive wants New York state to open a joint vaccination site at one currently operated by the county. The nearest state sites are two far for many mid-Hudson residents.
Republican Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, in a February 19 letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo, requests that the state open a joint vaccination site with the county at the county’s current 185,000-square-foot site in Poughkeepsie, inside the former JCPenney store at the Poughkeepsie Galleria, where fewer than 1,000 vaccinations are administered per week. This is due to the limited number of doses received. Molinaro says the site and staff have the capacity and capability to vaccinate five times as many. On Thursday, Democratic Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan wrote to Cuomo, asking that the state activate a joint vaccination site in Kington, also where the county already operates one.
Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro called NY State's COVID-19 vaccine plan chaotic a few weeks back, he doubled down on the Ethan and Lou Show saying Cuomo is to blame.
(Albany) Times Union ALBANY She calls him the “worst governor in America.” His right-hand man calls her “the worst member of Congress in America.” It didn’t used to be this way. The vitriol between Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, and their staffers, began escalating after the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, with Cuomo and his staff criticizing Stefanik for her support of then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The incendiary rhetoric surged again last week as the details were leaked of a closed-door meeting in which the secretary to the governor, Melissa DeRosa, admitted stonewalling the release of data on Cuomo’s nursing home policies in the face of a U.S. Justice Department investigation. Many believe those policy decisions increased fatalities in the facilities. Stefanik seized on DeRosa’s startling revelation and, along with many other lawmakers, demanded a federal investigation of the governor’s administra
ALBANY New York
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing a firestorm of criticism that cuts to the core of his pandemic popularity: His image as a data-driven leader who kept politics out of the battle against Covid-19.
There have been calls for his impeachment, his resignation and a removal of his pandemic-driven emergency powers, all since last week s revelations that aides hid data about nursing home deaths for fear of the political ramifications. The Democrat attempted something of an apology during a briefing on Monday.
While the criticism has been fierce, prompting speculation that he has been badly wounded, Cuomo has survived bad headlines before. And no serious opponents have committed to stopping him from securing a fourth term next year, something no New York governor has done since Nelson Rockefeller in a state that doesn t impose term limits on its governors. He has $17 million in the bank, maintains strong support from New York’s Democratic power brokers and, so far, his popul