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CNHI ALBANY — The heightened reliance on distance learning, the shift to telecommuting by many employers and the expansion of telemedicine have combined to highlight the gaps in high-speed broadband coverage in many communities in upstate New York. In 2015, Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed that high-speed internet connectivity would be available to all New Yorkers by the end of 2018. While progress has been made, gaps remain. Lawmakers say they will do more this year to encourage communications companies to complete the buildout. State Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, said the state has been ...

State Senators Claim Cuomo Lied, Say They Weren't Told About DOJ Probe into Nursing Home Deaths Newsweek 2/16/2021 Meghan Roos © HANS PENNINK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday that his staff previously told legislative staff about a Department of Justice inquiry into COVID-19 nursing home deaths. In the photo above, Cuomo speaks to members of New York state's Electoral College before voting for President and Vice President in the Assembly Chamber at the state Capitol in Albany, New York on December 14, 2020. New York state senators qu...

Feb 16, 2021 A letter from the Republican Senate Minority Leader is calling for an expanded investigation from the Attorney General’s office into how the state has handled COVID-19. GOP Leader Rob Ortt penned a letter to NY AG Letitia James requesting her office to formally broaden the scale and scope of its investigation into COVID-related nursing home deaths. In the letter, Ortt says quote “There must be a full, top to bottom investigation of the Cuomo Administration’s decisions on nursing homes, its subsequent and continuing coverup of those decisions, the mass exodus of Department...

Feb 14, 2021 — New York political leaders on both sides of the aisle are calling for actions, including a criminal investigation of Governor Andrew Cuomo and his top aides, and an end to the governor’s emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The outcry follows a New York Post report that the governor’s chief of staff said during a private meeting that the administration deliberately withheld key data on nursing home deaths during the pandemic. The New York Post published comments from a private video conference call between top Cuomo officials and several Democratic lawmakers,...

A top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo According to a Thursday report from the New York Post, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa made the admission during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders. She reportedly said that the Cuomo administration had delayed an Aug. 20 request from the New York state legislature for information about COVID-19 and nursing home facilities because it was “right around the same time, [then-President Trump] turns this into a giant political football.” ADVERTISEMENT “He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes,” DeRo...