#Local pols slam Cuomo’s new essential worker memorial site

#Local pols slam Cuomo’s new essential worker memorial site

“#Local pols slam Cuomo’s new essential worker memorial site” Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s haphazard plan to build an essential worker memorial in Battery Park City keeps hitting a wall of resistance from local politicians who call the most recent options for a site “unacceptable.” Cuomo’s ambitious goal to have the memorial erected by Labor Day comes…

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#Letters to the Editor — July 12, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — July 12, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — July 12, 2021” The Issue: Gov. Cuomo’s comment that leading New York during the pandemic was a “personal benefit.” Gov. Cuomo was quoted stating that the pandemic was a “tremendous personal benefit” (“La dolce virus,” July 9). The question is: At what expense? Cuomo was crowing about his success to…

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#Belgian woman dies after contracting two COVID-19 strains

#Belgian woman dies after contracting two COVID-19 strains

“#Belgian woman dies after contracting two COVID-19 strains” A 90-year-old Belgian woman died after she became infected with two different strains of COVID-19 at the same time, scientists revealed Sunday. Her case was the first documented of a patient infected with two strains, although the “phenomenon is probably underestimated,” one of the lead researchers said, according…

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#AOC slams Boebert for calling for end to jobless benefits

#AOC slams Boebert for calling for end to jobless benefits

“#AOC slams Boebert for calling for end to jobless benefits” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a shot at a Colorado Republican congresswoman who urged the government to end extra jobless benefits, saying Rep. Lauren Boebert was spouting “good ol conservative values.” “Tell ‘em loud and proud girl! GOP will strip your unemployment protections and dismantle any…

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# Biological evolution should inform how humans design markets

# Biological evolution should inform how humans design markets

“# Biological evolution should inform how humans design markets ” If the global COVID-19 pandemic has taught humanity anything, it has hammered home the lesson that the human being is as dependent on its fellows as the honeybee or ant. Scientists, academics, pharmaceutical executives, philanthropists and government agencies have worked together to roll out a…

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