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Last week, investigators released emails and text messages from Malatras mocking Lindsey Boylan, an ex-aide to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, after she called the work environment toxic in 2019.
Across the state about one in every seven positive COVID-19 tests is sent to a lab to be screened for variants. But some counties, like Tompkins, are able to screen nearly all of their tests.
The findings are contrary to messaging from the Ithaca Police Department and its labor union, the Ithaca Police Benevolent Association.
“We actually intended to be working currently, like this fall. But because of supply chain issues, fiber is one of the things that was hit particularly hard.”
A group of students at Greene High School in Chenango County have held protests and walkouts against racial, sexual and homophobic harassment by other students.
The moderate increase to the police budget comes as Ithaca, like many other municipalities in the region, struggles to fill its existing vacancies.
The lower-dose Pfizer vaccine has arrived at health departments and pediatricians’ offices across the region.
In Broome and Tompkins counties, only about 27% of people registered to vote actually cast a ballot.
A bomb threat at Cornell University on Sunday led to the evacuation of four buildings on the Ithaca campus.
“I would suspect that this is an example of the people who scheduled those initiatives choosing the wrong election to put those initiatives on the ballot.”
“They’ll have an argument with the parent right in front of you where the parent says no and the child says yes.”
Longtime nurse Lolita McComb came to work early to support her picketing coworkers. But when she clocks into her night shift at 3:00 PM, she said it is likely she will be the only nurse on a floor with 41 patients.
Many school district leaders have a dilemma — they have all this federal money, but they can’t use it to hire the teachers and staff they need.
Workers who are represented by one of 14 collective bargaining contracts can still opt for weekly testing in lieu of a vaccine.
Employees must get fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by December 8th or face termination.
“That position has never been funded to the degree that it should be.”
Late Wednesday afternoon, the district identified the issue as a regulator on the secondary boiler.
“I’d love to be able to [test] our whole school, but you’re talking, you know, 5000 tests a week. We do not have that capacity.”
“When you have such a highly vaccinated population, we do know the breakthrough cases are possible.”
“If those people can’t get tested and those people don’t get vaccinated, then they’re not going to be able to go to school and that is going to cause major problems for schools to be able to be reopened.”
“I want them to know that it’s personal for so many of us.”
“I was like, ‘oh my gosh, oh my gosh, what do I do?'”
“I think everybody is a little bit nervous about where we’re going from here.”
“We had a lot of big storms, a lot of rain during July and so that could have caused nutrients to essentially enter the lake and help facilitate these blooms.”
“I want to go to a place where, you know, I feel like at home.”
Organizers say the governor’s executive order to reform police last year didn’t go far enough in curbing discriminatory policing against Black New Yorkers.
“We want to be responsive and we want to stay on top of things, but I would not want it to be way out in front of this before more information comes.”
Only some of the region’s private colleges have implemented vaccine requirements for both employees and students.
“We’re starting to see it more and more. The weather patterns, I think are changing.”
Alberto José Cardelle will replace Dr. Barbara Jean Morris, who stepped down in October 2020 after SUNY Oneonta became a hotspot for COVID-19 cases.
“Last year we had a lot of downtime, literally.”