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April 1, 2020 – Governor Andrew M. Cu announced the highlights of the FY 2020 Budget. The Budget, building upon the Governor’s 2019 Justice Agenda, delivers comprehensive provisions to ensure social and economic justice for all, protects New Yorkers against Washington’s continued federal rollbacks and assaults on the middle class, increases education funding, reforms the […]

“The new state budget is nothing anyone should hang their hat on.  It is an aspirational placeholder of funding that may be available depending on how long the pandemic persists, the resiliency of our economy bouncing back and whether or not federal relief aid becomes available for state and local governments. “I voted against the […]

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has sent a letter to Small Business Administration (SBA) asking that farms and agribusinesses be considered eligible for the SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans. The CARES Act, passed by the House last week, creates an emergency economic injury grant program. This provision expands the eligibility criteria in the underlying […]

Residents Advised to Continue COVID-19 Prevention Strategies   Plattsburgh, April 2, 2020. The number of individuals with positive test results in Clinton County remains at 26 with one additional probable case. Testing for this person produced indeterminate results but symptoms have been consistent with COVID-19. Negative test results have been received for 194 individuals. Six […]

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Blessing in the Chaos To all that is chaotic in you, let there come silence.   Let there be a calming of the clamoring, a stilling of the voices that have laid their claim on you, that have made their home in you,   that go with you even to the holy places but will […]

Source: Grass roots effort in Lake Placid uses 3D printers to make doctors and nurses safer | NCPR News

Source: No April break for New York schools | WSYR

Source: Officials reverse decision, say social security recipients will automatically receive stimulus check

More than 170 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest number as of 4 a.m. ET*: US 216,722 (+14.28%) Italy 110,574 (+4.52%) Spain 104,118 (+8.54%) China 82,394 (+0.11%) Germany 77,981 (+8.60%) France 57,763 (+9.33%) Iran 47,593 (+6.70%) UK 29,865 (+17.20%) Switzerland 17,768 (+7.00%) Turkey 15,679 (+15.87%) Source: Johns Hopkins […]

Source: Zantac products should be pulled from market immediately, FDA says – CNN

Source: Social distancing is said to be working in Burlington – VTDigger

Source: Birchwood Terrace facility in Burlington reports seven COVID-19 cases – VTDigger

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Source: City of Plattsburgh establishes curfew to limit spread of COVID-19

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Elise Stefanik sent a letter to House leadership requesting that New York State receive significantly more funding in any forthcoming federal legislative relief package. The last stimulus package, the CARES Act, allocated the funding for state and local governments purely by population, not by the amount of cases or the impact […]

Source: Warren Co. COVID-19 cases jump 70% in one day – Sun Community News & Printing