PUBLISHED 7:58 PM ET Feb. 22, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:58 PM EST Feb. 22, 2021
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The New York State Senate passed ten nursing home reform bills on Monday, but that is as far as some of these bills might go.
Speaker Carl Heastie said that the Assembly is likely to pass their own set of reform bills, which means both houses will need to come to an agreement before any bill can be signed into law.
However, the focus over recent days has shifted further away from reform and more on limiting the governor’s emergency powers after his top aide, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa, admitted the state intentionally withheld the number of COVID-related nursing home deaths.
By Spectrum News Staff Mendon UPDATED 12:29 PM ET Feb. 23, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:07 PM ET Feb. 22, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:07 PM EST Feb. 22, 2021
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MENDON, N.Y. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling for a federal investigation following a last month’s deadly
helicopter crash just outside Rochester, and a second crash in Idaho weeks later. Six guardsmen were killed in those crashes.
Schumer wants investigators to look into the safety of Army and Air National Guard Vertical Lift Programs. He says a report by the National Commission on Military Aviation Safety found that, since 2013, 186 aircrafts have been destroyed, and people have been killed in non-combat-related mishaps.
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ORLANDO, Fla. â Gov. Ron DeSantis laid out a new legislative proposal Friday to restrict voting by mail, which is a method most often used in the past by his own political party.
That is, until the 2020 presidential election, when, for the first time in years, more Florida Democrats voted by mail than Republicans
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Gov. Ron DeSantis has proposed restricting voting by mail in Florida
The move comes after more Democrats voted by mail than Republicans for the first time in years
DeSantis is pushing the changes despite no evidence of any major problems with the vote-by-mail system during the 2020 presidential election
By Mitch Perry Hillsborough County PUBLISHED 4:52 PM ET Feb. 19, 2021 PUBLISHED 4:52 PM EST Feb. 19, 2021
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HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. While there was a lot of rhetorical harmony between Republican and Democratic members of the Hillsborough County legislative delegation at a pre-session discussion on Friday, that bonhomie shattered when discussing a bill pushed by Governor Ron DeSantis that has been depicted as cracking down on violent protests.
“So House Bill 1 is one that I am very, very concerned about, because it does not protect our First Amendment right to peaceful protest. It attacks it,” said Hillsborough County Democratic state Rep. Fentrice Driskell at a Tampa Tiger Bay virtual forum on Friday.