ALBANY, NY – Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay and Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt were joined by their colleagues today at the State Capitol to reinforce the need for the Legislature to finally remove Gov. Cuomo’s expanded emergency powers.
Having spent the last several months rejecting repeated legislative attempts by Republicans to end the governor’s authorities, Democrats have now drafted a proposal to restore the Legislature’s status as a co-equal branch of government.
“It should not have taken a national scandal regarding nursing home fatalities and federal investigation of the governor’s office to reach this point,” Barclay said. “Rolling back Gov. Cuomo’s expanded authority is long overdue, but better late than never. The fact is that New York state is a representative democracy. Unilateral rule is not how our government is supposed to run. We have arrived at a point that the trust and credibility of the governor’s office has been severely compromise
CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. â Laura Brown, licensed physical therapist and massage therapist, celebrated the ribbon cutting for her practice s new location on Thursday.
Brown, who also holds a state certification for a Women Business Enterprise, is the only licensed Calmare therapist in the capital region.
Calmare, which gets its name from the Latin word for calming, is a neuropathic therapy practice that is very popular in Europe but is only just starting to get attention in the US. It is a non-invasive, non-narcotic treatment for pain caused by inflammation. It uses a gentle electrical stimulation system disrupter process to reset the pain signals going to the brain. The practice is FDA-approved and currently in use at places such as the Mayo Clinic and John Hopkins University.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo has come up with a new way to offer a partial unemployment claim that Republicans in the state Legislature may agree with.
Legislation to be submitted with the Executive Budget will permanently enact a partial unemployment program to incentivize unemployed New Yorkers to assume a part-time job as they search for full-time work, with a revised calculation made possible by technological improvements currently under way.
Under current law, unemployed New Yorkers’ weekly benefits are reduced by 25% for each day an individual works, regardless of the hours worked. Anyone who worked four or more days even if they only worked one hour per day would have to forfeit their entire weekly benefit.