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Two top Cuomo aides leave amid sexual harassment, nursing home scandals Press secretary Caitlin Girouard and interim policy adviser Erin Hammond have both left Cuomo's administration, Their departures came after senior adviser Gareth Rhodes and first deputy press secretary Will Burns also announced they'd be leaving the Cuomo administration, though the governor's office has said these were previously planned, Bloomberg notes. They also said Hammond had been set to leave for several months to "focus on her family," and Girouard says she accepted another job in January, according to But the ...

Flower, pre-rolls, edibles, carts and more. These 4 Days of 420 are for you. In local news: • Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced today that she is ordering all school districts to resume in-person classes for K-5 students by March 29, with grades 6-12 following suit by April 19. Excellent—just in time to give kids the opportunity to ditch for 4/20. • The Oregon Legislature will have the chance to outlaw a homophobic and transphobic legal defense strategy during the 2021 session. Senate Bill 704 would ban the LGBTQ+ panic defense—also known as the gay panic defense or trans panic defens...

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8 Democrats Join Republicans in Rejecting Sanders’ $15 Minimum Wage Hike Bill Eight Democratic senators joined Republicans in rejecting raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour over five years after it was proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), and Angus King (I-Maine)—who caucuses with Democrats—opposed the measure, joining all Republicans in the upper chamber. Coons and Carper are considered two close allies...

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