After not showing much interest in the state’s Financial Control Board during his first two terms, Gov. Andrew Cuomo quietly nominated three close associates to fill vacancies on the seven-member board. Read More
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Governor Cuomo is a master of distraction and political sleight of hand. But don't let his celebratory poster and premature victory lap over coronavirus distract you from an awful truth: at least 6,300 seniors living in nursing homes died in the aftermath of his decision to allow COVID-positive patients back into their facilities. Read More
New Yorkers are expected to get the most independent review to date of the thousands of COVID-19 deaths at state-licensed nursing homes and long-term care facilities at a legislative hearing set to begin Monday. Read More
Zachary Evans The New York State Department of Health has concluded that an executive order requiring nursing homes to readmit coronavirus patients, issued by Governor Andrew Cuomo, was not the driving factor behind coronavirus deaths in Read More
It’s great that the Cuomo administration and its Health Department issued a report this week detailing the causes of nursing home deaths at the height of the state’s coronavirus outbreak. And it’s great that the depar Read More
David Robinson The state Department of Health's own analysis of COVID-19 nursing home deaths has renewed politically the charged debate over how and why coronavirus ravaged the most vulnerable New Yorkers. Read More
Alfonso Castillo The financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is adding urgency to the agency’s efforts to curtail overtime numbers that critics say remain alarmingly high. The MTA said a Read More
Brian Pascus As New York begins to reopen from the Covid-19 lockd Read More