More than 20 state legislative Democrats want Gov. Andrew Cuomo to lift remaining restrictions for visits in nursing homes. Given the myriad of ways the state failed senior citizens in nursing homes during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the legislators’ request should be ...
Hepatitis A isn’t exactly the virus everybody is keeping an eye on this year — except, in Chautauqua County, for the Chautauqua County Health Department. Typically, the county has one or two cases a year, but the past year has seen 50 hepatitis A cases in the county. That total ...
Why, exactly, does Gov. Andrew Cuomo need a first-in-the-nation gun violence disaster emergency if the SAFE Act is as good as advertised? That’s a good question for which we have no good answer. Chances are, neither does the governor. Guns are still getting into the hands of those who ...
Friends of ours have children and grandchildren who live in the New York City area and they often drive there. They can make it in about 7 hours in their SUV. Now that everyone is talking about electric cars, I was wondering how long it would take them to make that drive in an ...
Our governmental institutions – executive, legislative, and judicial - are only as effective as they are trustworthy. We expect our judges to be impartial arbiters of fact, and that is why I am so upset about Chief Judge Janet DiFiore accepting prioritized testing for herself and her ...
As a Bryn Mawr girl, I never particularly cottoned to Princeton boys. Oh, sure, their campus was lovely. But so was ours – same Gothic architecture. Chuck’s and my relationship was brief (was his name even “Chuck”?), ending with a finality when I mailed him a dead goldfish. (I did ...