#New York Assembly releases package of nursing home reform bills

#New York Assembly releases package of nursing home reform bills

“#New York Assembly releases package of nursing home reform bills” The Democratic-led New York state Assembly released a package of nearly 20 nursing home accountability bills Friday, aimed at tightening restrictions on the hundreds of for-profit facilities. Among the 19 bills is one sponsored by Assembly Health Chair Dick Gottfried (D-Manhattan) that would prohibit the…

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#NYC’s Lincoln Center will return with outdoor performances

#NYC’s Lincoln Center will return with outdoor performances

“#NYC’s Lincoln Center will return with outdoor performances” Nearly a year after closing due to the coronavirus pandemic, Lincoln Center on Thursday announced it’s taking the show outside. The performing arts institution will create 10 outdoor stages for performances and rehearsals starting April 7. Called “Restart Stages,” the initiative is part of an effort by…

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#De Blasio’s lame recovery plan won’t end NYC’s Ghost Town

#De Blasio’s lame recovery plan won’t end NYC’s Ghost Town

“#De Blasio’s lame recovery plan won’t end NYC’s Ghost Town” Almost a year into Gotham’s devastating lockdown, Mayor de Blasio has announced the appointment of former school-construction chief Lorraine Grillo as “recovery czar” to, in his words, “super-charge” an economic recovery.  But a close look at the mayor’s sad, thin recovery plan belies his commitment…

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#Finally, the bully Gov. Cuomo has been exposed: Devine

#Finally, the bully Gov. Cuomo has been exposed: Devine

“#Finally, the bully Gov. Cuomo has been exposed: Devine” Tough contest, but Mayor Putz, Bill de Blasio, is more popular in New York these days than the Granny Killer, Gov. Cuomo. “People would tend to like a bungling idiot more than a homicidal maniac” is how “Bernie and Sid” put it yesterday on their top-rated…

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#Open up all NYC classrooms!

#Open up all NYC classrooms!

“#Open up all NYC classrooms!” Once again, the science proves: Schools pose minimal risk in the spread of COVID-19. The CDC says it. Experts say it.  And New York shows it, with just three city schools closed to hybrid in-person learning, out of an abundance of caution, because someone tested positive at the facilities. The…

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#Assembly Dems eye removing Cuomo COVID emergency powers

#Assembly Dems eye removing Cuomo COVID emergency powers

“#Assembly Dems eye removing Cuomo COVID emergency powers” Democrats who run the state Assembly privately huddled Wednesday to craft a plan to remove the emergency powers given to Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year to address the coronavirus pandemic. The move comes amid outrage over Cuomo’s COVID-19 nursing home scandal, which included undercounting deaths of residents…

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#Time to impeach the unmasked Gov. Cuomo

#Time to impeach the unmasked Gov. Cuomo

“#Time to impeach the unmasked Gov. Cuomo” Gov. Cuomo has long portrayed himself as a model of propriety — a paragon of virtue, competence, leadership. Yet now a starkly different picture of him is emerging: that of a bully, a liar and, it appears, a sexual harasser. The latest charge comes from his former deputy…

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#Federal COVID-19 mass vaccination sites open in NYC

#Federal COVID-19 mass vaccination sites open in NYC

“#Federal COVID-19 mass vaccination sites open in NYC” Two more mass COVID-19 vaccination sites opened in New York City Wednesday — promising to deliver more doses than any other in the Big Apple. The sites at Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers College and York College in Queens, a joint partnership between the state and federal governments, are…

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