Cuomo’s administration revealed on Thursday that at least 12,743 nursing home residents had died from COVID-19 as of Jan. 19, a figure nearly 50% larger than the official tally of 8,505 deaths reported by the New York State Department of Health that day.
Republican lawmakers are making another push to expand private school options for students by redirecting state education aid, but the move faces pushback from Democrats and teachers’ unions who say it will hurt traditional public schools.
State leaders in New York appear to finally be ready to legalize online sports betting, but critics don’t care for the approach of having a likely high tax rate and state government monopoly.
U.S. Senate President Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., was sworn in Tuesday to be the presiding officer in the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, despite saying weeks ago that Trump is guilty of inciting violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
A positive COVID-19 PCR test result does not mean a person is sick, or infectious, with a pandemic virus. Also, “issues” with PCR tests are numerous, and PCR positive results are very unreliable when prevalence is low.
I wish I could have heard something like that from President Biden, but today’s Democrats have long ago left that thought in the dustbin of history.
The state’s largest teachers union is pushing to move educators higher up in the COVID-19 vaccine line, and blasting Gov. Chris Sununu for prioritizing ski patrol workers over teachers in the first round of inoculations.
The FBI expected armed protests in state capitals across the U.S. ahead of inauguration day, though few occurred and were uneventful.
“The pandemic has hit the nation’s most vulnerable communities hard,” Parrott and Zandi wrote in the report released Monday. “Not only have they been more likely to get sick, but they have been more likely to lose their income and savings, and now they are more likely to be evicted.”
Lawmakers in the House Judiciary Committee heard from multiple town clerks last week about election fraud attempts in Vermont. The clerks said it’s difficult to detect fraud, and they don’t get a lot of training for this part of the job.
All but two votes cast thus far in the 2021-22 session by Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., have addressed the removal of office and/or impeachment of President Donald Trump, according to a review of the Vermont congressman’s voting record.
The Vermont Tax Structure Commission wants to expand Vermont’s 6% sales tax — currently limited to goods and a few singled-out services such as ski rentals — to everything but health care, and to reduce the overall rate to 3.6%. This is a terrible proposal.