Mercury
Mercury’s lobbying and public affairs firm, which is headed by Michael McKeon, boasts more than 30 media relations professionals in its New York office. The growing media relations team is led by former Bloomberg spokesperson John Gallagher, managing director and former National Action Network communications lead Rachel Noerdlinger, former Fox News producer Dan Bank and former Associated Press chief White House correspondent Ben Feller. Mercury, which represents a wide variety of clients, has a national presence that is bolstered by former New York Post reporter Stefan Friedman, who leads the media relations practice on the West Coast.
Other key employees: Beth DeFalco, Karen Mustiga, Kim Winston, John Tomlin, Djenny Passé, Shannan Siemens, Eric Bloom
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New York City’s newest City Council member, Kevin Riley, has some friends in high places. He has worked for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie for the last 10 years, and has known state Sen. Jamaal Bailey, the new leader of the Bronx Democratic Party, for more than 20 years.
But Riley will have the opportunity to stand on his own as the newly elected representative for the 12th Council District in the northeastern Bronx. He won the Dec. 22 special election that was called because the previous council member, Andy King, was expelled from the Legislature for ethical violations including harassing his staff. Riley, a Democrat, was sworn in on Wednesday morning, and immediately named chair of the Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings, and Dispositions.
Death, kindness, controversy and hope for 2021
Updated on Dec 28, 2020;
Published on Dec 28, 2020
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. There was an incessant sound of sirens as emergency calls mounted in the spring.
Solemn silence during funerals for those for whom they were permitted.
In the approximately 300 days since the coronavirus (COVID-19) first hit Staten Island, our lives were drastically changed, perhaps forever.
Yet as 2020 ends, the vaccine’s arrival sparked hope for the future.
What follows is a look at how the virus grew from a single confirmed case to exact a staggering toll on Staten Island the last 10 months:
We need this HERO Act to pass because without it, you canât call us heroes. You may as well just call us suckers, because we have to go into work, because if we donât, we wonât eat,â said Robert Williams, a chef who worked at an assisted-living facility in Queens throughout the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
As the numbers of COVID cases and hospitalizations increase across the state, Mr. Williams, along with health-care staff, laundry workers and other essential workers, Dec. 17 renewed calls to pass the New York Health and Essential Rights Order, or NY HERO Act. The bill would require the state Health Department and Department of Labor to establish minimum COVID safety standards for workplaces to protect employees. Personal protective equipment, social distancing, sanitizing and testing protocols would all be required.
Monday, December 21, 2020 by: Divina Ramirez
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https://www.hangthecensors.com/481814.html (Natural News) Nurses at the privately-owned Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital in New York went on strike on Tuesday, Dec. 8, demanding more staff and better equipment, as rising COVID-19 cases nationwide threatened to overwhelm hospitals.
Some 200 nurses represented by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) walked out of their shifts at 7 a.m. for a planned two-day strike. They were asking the hospital for safer working conditions and to increase staffing levels in anticipation of the surge in COVID-19 patients.
Nurses said the hospital has been pushing them to care for too many patients than they could handle at a time. This forces nurses to choose which patient to rescue, said Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, the president of the nurses’ union at the hospital. “That is just a horrible thing for health professionals to confront.”