Responsible_Adult_Female

I read the obituaries the most - I'm at the age where I know someone every day. Mild interest in the comics. The rest is crap.

Now we will be stuck with Scott Sasina who can't complete a sentence without stumbling over his words

This just came out: Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn’t find out Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear that the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors, The Post has learned. The stunning admission of a coverup was made by secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because “right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football,” according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting. “He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes,” DeRosa said. “He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer.” In addition to attacking Cuomo’s fellow Democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump “directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us.” “And basically, we froze,” she told the lawmakers on the call. “Because then we were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation.” DeRosa added: “That played a very large role into this.” After dropping the bombshell, DeRosa asked for “a little bit of appreciation of the context” and offered what appears to be the Cuomo administration’s first apology for its handling of nursing homes amid the pandemic. https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/cuomo-aide-admits-they-hid-nursing-home-data-from-feds/

Cuomo was a total jerk about this whole process. He threatened to shut down the nursing homes if they refused patients. He made statements about nursing homes not being able to handle taking care of their residents and being incompetent if they couldn't handle a COVID patient. There has to be footage of this someplace - it was part of his daily briefings.

that's just horrible!

A friend of mine works at Good Shepherd Communities. The DOH has visited Good Shepherd Communities many times - no deficiencies have been found at any of their three campuses.

That coat looks like it was made from a leftover piece of carpet.

Now this is accurate reporting right here 😉

I tried to take my fiancé to work Thursday with my 4WD. I got stuck at the corner of Hooper & Watson. I got stuck on the ramp trying to go down to Main Street. We made it as far as McDonald's by Vestal Avenue and I turned around. I've lived here my whole life and this was the first I had ever seen it like this, even with the blizzards we have had in the past.

WBNG just calls this an "incident" that's being investigated by the Binghamton Police. Lazy reporting at its finest. Thank you BC Voice for always keeping us informed!

There were streets in Endwell that weren't plowed for a couple days. I had heard that ambulances were being towed to the hospitals by plow trucks during the storm. What if there was a house fire or an emergency on one of those unplowed streets? I just shake my head. Then the other night when we got 3", they were plowing every half hour. There aren't any kids going around looking to make money shoveling these days.

I gave up and did the change of address on line and paid $1.05 to do it. It irks me that they want more money to do something I should have been able to do in person.

I went to the Endicott post office on Washington Avenue this week to fill out a change of address form. They didn't have any and laughed about it. I am receiving Christmas cards (still) that were mailed out a week or more before Christmas! I may have to move to on-line bill paying so that my payments don't show up late.

I was told from someone that the priority was to keep roadways clear where vaccine distribution was happening and leave the rest unplowed in the hopes that people would stay home and slow the spread of COVID. I see that didn't work.

This gets more ridiculous every day.