New York State Assemblyman Thomas J. Abinanti joined with New York Medical College (NYMC) leadership to present a $250,000 grant for the Center of Excellence in Precision Responses to Bioterrorism and Disasters within the Center for Disaster Medicine (CDM). The funding will support the Center’s training of local health care professionals, emergency responders and law enforcement in […]
arrow The Assembly Chamber during a recent Legislative Session at the New York state Capitol. Hans Pennink/AP/Shutterstock
New York’s state constitution requires that the legislature and the governor pass a budget by April 1st. That has not happened, as lawmakers and the governor continue to negotiate issues in the $217 billion budget that will affect millions of New Yorkers.
Thousands of pages of the 10billsthatcomprise the state budget have already been published for legislators and the public to hastily review. This language has been hashed out in meetings of the leaders of the two houses Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose negotiating power has been diminished due to the mounting investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct and the mishandling of nursing home deaths caused by COVID-19.
“I’m not going to resign because of allegations,” he said during the press call. “The premise of resigning because of allegations is actually anti-democratic,” he argued. “The system is based on due process.” He then suggested that it wasn’t known if the allegations were credible. Guess that whole “believe all women” thing completely goes out the window when it comes to him. No, the premise of resigning isn’t “anti-democratic,” resignation is a voluntary move. He said let the attorney general do her job “and then we’ll have the facts.” Ah, yeah, just like the July report that your aides ‘influenced’ were the ‘facts’ on the nursing home scandal. This guy is something else.
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GOVERNOR SIGNS LAW DEVELOPED BY GREENBURGH REQUIRING LARGE SUPERMARKETS STATEWIDE TO MAKE EXCESS EDIBLE FOOD AVAILABLE TO FEED THE NEEDY One in seven New Yorkers do not have enough food. Yet supermarkets throw out good edible food daily . . . and send it to landfills for disposal. Based on a law developed in Greenburgh, Governor Cuomo has signed a law providing that large supermarkets statewide are required to make excess edible food available to religious or other non-profit organizations which provide food for free to the needy. The law was developed by the Greenburgh Conservation Advisory Council and Greenburgh Councilman Ken Jones. The law is modeled after the French law adopted in 2016, which was passed unanimously by the French Parliament. Mike Sigal, Vice-Chair of our CAC, and his wife learned of the law while in France, and Mike then arranged to meet with the French legislator who authored the law. The CAC and Councilman Jones then adapted the French law to Americ