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Letters to the Editor Wednesday, May 12 | The Daily Gazette
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Heroes Act protects workers’ health
The May 9 editorial (“Get bills right the first time”) decries the Heroes Act, protecting workers hit hardest by the pandemic in nursing homes, warehouses, meat processing plants, etc
New York state nursing homes had over 30% of the deaths and 37,500 staff (25%) were infected.
State and federal governments do not track worker infections or investigate workplace outbreaks.
Public health has been severely cut (10% since 2008) due to anti governmental, anti-regulatory bias. Cuts resulted in a lack of preparedness, protective equipment, non-existent emergency plans.
The editorial board refers to “onerous requirements for safety and health practices” and states that New York businesses are already “overburdened with state and federal health and safety regulations.”
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After the New York State Department of Health updated its COVID-19 guidance for schools, many local districts are making changes to comply.
Albany County Executive Dan McCoy was joined by Albany City School Superintendent Kaweeda Adams and Brian Bailey from the Ravens-Coeymans-Selkirk Central School District on Monday.
Bailey says making it through the last year was a triumph for educators.
“You saw so many people switch to remote last March to do their work. And I don t know … Actually, I do know that our parents have appreciated the complexity of it, because many of them, in some circumstances became the primary educator for their children. I think it helped to spur a whole new appreciation for the work that happens in our schools.”
Series Sunday: Guyanese immigration has changed face of Schenectady | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY – The ethnic makeup of cities is always evolving.
Across the northern United States, cities have changed over the last 200 years, as successive waves of the Irish, Italian and eastern Europeans arrived. In the mid-20th century, millions of southern Black people moved to northern cities, seeking new opportunities. Schenectady knows all those trends.
But Schenectady is unusual in having made an intentional effort to attract a newer ethnic group immigrants from Guyana and their Guyanese-American descendants, many of whom came to the U.S. following the South American nation’s gaining independence from British colonial rule in 1966.