Assemblymember John McDonald
A new blog home – Thank you to the Times Union
I want to start by thanking the Times Union for this blog opportunity and for hosting a platform that provided me with the opportunity to share my thoughts on many issues and the ability to share information regarding my work as a legislator. Since the TU is going to be phasing out these citizen-produced blogs, I wanted provide you with the link to my new blog home, CivMix Voices, at CivMix.com
It is hard to believe but I started this blog at the Times Unions request on March 14th, 2010. Here is a snippet of my first blog that I used to kick off what is now almost an 11 year run…
Senator Jim Tedisco
A win for transparency for all New Yorkers By Jim Tedisco on February 4, 2021 at 4:26 PM
New York State Supreme Court Justice Kimberly A. O’Connor has ruled in favor of the Empire Center for Public Policy and my lawsuit on behalf of the thousands of families who lost loved ones to COVID-19 in state-regulated nursing homes, against the Cuomo Administration and the New York State Department of Health (DOH) to publicly release data related to the deaths of nursing home residents who were transferred to hospitals last year and died from the coronavirus.
In September, I filed an amicus brief to the Empire Center for Public Policy’s lawsuit against the DOH for its refusal to release records showing the full count of coronavirus deaths among nursing home residents. The DOH has delayed our request for the data three times.