NEW YORK STATE’S 2020-21 BUDGET Cuomo Cites Fracking Ban, $700M For ‘Mother Nature’ ALBANY – Governor Cuomo called the state’s 2020-21 budget, passed at 3 a.m. yesterday, “extraordinary,” according to the press statement from his office. “I understand we’re all consumed with the coronavirus situation but we have to be able to walk and chew gum,” the governor said after the passage, adding “the budget was difficult because the state has no money, … and we came up with a…
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Governor Extending PAUSE 2 More Weeks Directs State Nonessential Workforce to Work from Home for Additional Two Weeks, Through April 15.…
WATCH CUOMO’S DAILY NEWS BRIEFING Governor Seeking 1,000-Bed Overflow Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the state is scouting additional new sites for temporary hospitals, with a goal of having a 1,000-plus patient overflow facility in each New York City borough as well as Westchester, Rockland, Nassau and Suffolk counties. These new additions, together with the temporary hospitals that are being built at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and locations at SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Old Westbury and the…
LETTER FROM THE GOVERNOR Cuomo’s Daily Updates Show Much Being Done Editor’s Note: Here’s an example of Governor Cuomo’s daily email updates, which underscore how much is being done to combat coronavirus. Do yourself a favor: sign up at: https://now.ny.gov/page/s/coronavirus-updates March 23, 2020 Dear New Yorker, Amid this pandemic, we can’t underestimate the emotional trauma people are facing or underestimate the pain of isolation. It is real. This is not the human condition — not to be comforted, not to…
EDITORIAL Job One, Beat Coronavirus; Job Two, Limit The Harm As a community, we face two tasks. Job One is to tackle the coronavirus threat. As evident in closing schools and colleges, local governments and business, in our adherence to “social distancing,” and in Bassett Hospital’s pro-active agenda, there is community-wide commitment to that. Governor Cuomo, who has been at his best since the crisis loomed, put it well Sunday, March 22, in his interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “In…
THEY’RE DOING GOD’S WORK, HE SAYS 40,000 Health-Care Professionals Step Up, Governor Announces Governor Cuomo today announced that to date 40,000 healthcare workers, including retirees and students, have signed up to volunteer to work as part of the state’s surge healthcare force during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with more expected to sign up in the coming weeks. Additionally, more than 6,000 mental health professionals have signed up to provide free online mental health services. New Yorkers can call the state’s…
HERE’S LIST OF ‘ESSENTIAL BUSINESSES’ HERE’S ‘STATE ON PAUSE’ PRESS RELEASE CUOMO ORDERS ‘NON-ESSENTIAL’ BUSINESS SHUT Cutoff Set For 8 p.m. Sunday; Soldiers, Police May Enforce It By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The County of Otsego is seeking, first, to understand today’s “New York State on PAUSE” executive order directing a wide range of businesses to close by 8 p.m. Sunday and, second, to helpfully collaborate where it can. That was the message that county board…
UP FROM 50% YESTERDAY Cuomo To Businesses: Send 75% Of Staff Home…
In Blunt Interview, Governor Says State Hospitals Lack Beds Coronavirus’ Peak: Maybe 45 Days, He Tells NYT’s ‘The Daily’ Podcast In a blunt interview on today’s New York Times podcast, “The Daily,” Governor Cuomo said the Coronavirus will require 110,000 hospital beds. “In this state you have 50,000 hospital beds,” he told host Michael Barbara. “Needing 37,000 intensive care unit beds, and having 3,000 ICU beds.” He predicted the disease may peak in 45 days. He said he’s been in…