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As COVID-19 numbers continue to rise gradually in New York, state officials will now spend $15 million to encourage unvaccinated individuals to get the shot in zip codes with the lowest rates of inoculation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday. That funding will be given to four organizations and two community centers, which will then be tasked with working with members of the community to boost vaccination rates.
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ALBANY, NY (WSKG)—Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in his first public appearance since being questioned by the state Attorney General’s Office on allegations of sexual harassment, cast doubt on the motives of the investigators, saying it Is likely that “politics” are involved. Cuomo in March said he trusted Attorney General Tish James to conduct a fair investigation into the sexual harassment allegations against him from multiple women.
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ALBANY, NY (WSKG)—Responding to complaints by New York’s senior senator, Chuck Schumer, about the state’s slowest-in-the-nation rate of distributing federal rent relief dollars, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said a new streamlined application process for tenants begins Tuesday. Schumer, who is the U.S. Senate Majority Leader, said over the weekend that the state was in danger of losing $2.4 billion in federal aid due to delays by the Cuomo administration in getting out the rent relief.
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SYRACUSE, NY (WRVO)—Researchers at Cornell University are working to develop a solution to a global problem: the decline of bee populations. A new invention aims to help bees safely digest certain pesticides, which can be deadly to bees and destructive to colonies.
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SYRACUSE, NY (WRVO)—New York’s unemployment rate dropped marginally in June from 7.8 percent to 7.7 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While this change may seem negligible, SUNY Oswego economics professor, Liz Schmitt, said there are a lot of moving parts underneath the surface.
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