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The endorsement from 1199 SEIU, which represents healthcare workers and is the largest union in the city, is a huge stamp of approval for Wiley and will most certainly translate into the union lending its get-out-the-vote muscle to her City Hall run.
Title Text: Caption: Description: Image Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance is likely a lame duck and declined to prosecute Donald Trump’s children in 2012, but he may be the one person who can now hold the former president accountable for his actions. While an impeachment conviction seems unlikely in Washington, Vance’s office has been slowly gathering evidence in a criminal probe of Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns. Vance’s prosecutors let slip in court papers they were examining possible tax, bank, and insurance fraud...
SHARE: A Monday report from The New York Times describing a growing rift between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state public health officials is the latest evidence of the governor’s close relationship with the state’s health care industry and hospitals. According to the article, Cuomo relied more heavily on private hospital executives than on state officials, such as Michael Dowling, CEO of Northwell Health, in making plans for COVID-19 vaccine distribution. This, the Times reports, contributed to at least nine top health officials resigning, retiring or otherwise leaving the state Department of ...
Photo courtesy Northwell Health As the coronavirus pandemic tested the viability of New York’s health care system, Gov. Andrew Cuomo turned again and again to Michael Dowling. The governor has worked closely with the leader of Northwell Health, New York’s biggest employer, relying on him as his chief intermediary with New York’s hospitals, naming his longtime ally to a panel to “reimagine” New York in the wake of COVID-19 and even making a Northwell nurse the first American to receive a coronavirus vaccine. 3. Cuomo’s COVID-19 Task Force Gov. Andrew Cuomo wasn’t the only state...
Credit WBFO file photo Cuomo warned that the new strain might already be in the U.S. and could cause another wave of infection. He said he believes it may already have arrived with the several thousand passengers a day who have continued to fly between Heathrow Airport and JFK and LaGuardia airports in New York City. “I believe, intuitively, it’s already here,” Cuomo said. “Because if it’s been flying around the world, it will be here.” Cuomo wants President Donald Trump’s administration to join the other countries and also ground planes from the U.K. to the U.S. The governor sa...