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New York is urging local governments to shift strategies as demand for the COVID-19 vaccines have dropped dramatically.

New York State Team New York had been on pace to spend about $1 billion on the historic effort to vaccinate its population against COVID-19, but slowing demand has led the state to pursue a shift in its strategy in recent weeks. Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week urged local officials to shutter larger COVID-19 vaccination centers that have all but turned into ghost towns after months of churning out millions of doses to New Yorkers.   “We don't have enough people coming into vaccination centers to justify having the centers open right now,” Cuomo said during a media briefing Monday. “We hav...

New York is urging local governments to shift strategies as demand for the COVID-19 vaccines have dropped dramatically.

Enough waiting for transparency FacebookTwitterEmail Photo illustration by Jeff Boyer / Times Union Ten years ago this week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Spending and Government Efficiency Commission opened a portal for New Yorkers to “suggest ways to improve the efficiency and quality of government services.” Key among the SAGE Commission’s 100 recommendations was to implement a public performance management system to “serve as both a means for reporting information to the public and a management tool for state officials.” Unfortunately, a decade later no such system exists. Yet, the need...

As they wait for the state’s more detailed financial plan, economists and state officials Monday weighed the impacts $2.1 billion in benefits for undocumented New Yorkers in the 2021-22 budget could have on small businesses and the state economy. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the budget, passed almost a week after the midnight April 1 deadline, into law Monday after a late-morning briefing in his Manhattan office. The state Legislature included $2.1 billion in the final budget for an Excluded Workers Fund, or about 290,000 New York residents who lost wages or income after February 2020 becaus...