The Buffalo Chronicle
Howard Zucker
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Heastie, Stewart-Cousins are open to impeaching Cuomo over falsified COVID death numbers
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins are open to impeaching Governor Andrew Cuomo if it’s discovered that his administration intentionally falsified the reporting of COVID-related nursing home deaths…
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Ortt calls for the resignation of New York State Health Commissioner
Republican State Senate Leader Rob Ortt is calling on Howard Zucker to resign his post as New York State’s Commissioner of Health, following revelations this morning that the Cuomo administration has undercounted…
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Health Department stalls a FOIL request for the full COVID death toll in nursing homes
The state Health Department is offering a new explanation for why it won’t provide the full death toll of coronavirus in nursing homes: it can’t find the records. Early last month, the…
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Senate Republicans demand subpoena power to get answers on nursing home deaths
ALBANY, NY – NYS Senate Republican Leader Robert Ortt and members of the Senate Republican Conference today demanded that the Senate Majority leverage its subpoena power to compel Governor Andrew Cuomo, Commissioner…
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Big Tobacco unleashes on Cuomo, threatening loss of State Senate on proposed cigarette ban
After reports swirled across the State late Friday night that senior public health officials in the administration of Governor Andrew Cuomo were actively drafting a temporary six-week ban on the sale of…
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Cuomo may delay restrictions on e-vapors to accommodate six-week ban on cigarette sales
Cuomo is also considering the suspension of sales taxes on nicotine patches and lozenges and plans to ask executives at Altria to significantly reduce prices on those products for the same six…
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Cuomo considers banning cigarette sales for six weeks amid Coronavirus outbreak
Governor Andrew Cuomo is considering a temporary six-week ban on the sale of combustible cigarettes in order to reduce the State’s Coronavirus death count, a source familiar with his thinking tells The…
