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Reports indicate that the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine will be arriving in Monroe County sometimes this week. The way things are scheduled out, the nursing home residents who are scheduled to receive the inoculations first, won’t be able to get them for at least another week after they arrive. Before they can get the vaccine, the […]
If cash is king, what does that make coins? Right now, coins are M.I.A.! The federal government said last month the Federal Reserve established a U.S. Coin Task Force to “mitigate the effects of low coin inventories caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.” The C-Team, (That’s Not The Real Name) is a 22 members task force. Representing […]
Officials at the treasury department are beginning to suggest that Americans should receive another round of stimulus checks to aid in the economic hardships caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been a couple of different ideas being floated around. One, which was passed by democrats in the senate, is called the HEROES Act. It […]
Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is demanding President Donald Trump remove the hundreds of US military forces that are stationed outside the city. The troops were deployed by the President as his way of “dominating the streets.” TThe presence of the active duty military has been clouding the chain of command and increasing tensions between […]
The University of Rochester Medical Center has announced that it must furlough 20 percent of its workforce, approximately 3,474 of its 17,785 employees, because the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has resulted in $130 million in clinical revenue losses each month from suspended non-essential elective surgeries and patient care. In March and April, CARES Act grant funds only […]
Mayor Lovely Warren will make a budget proposal announcement by May 15 to meet the City of Rochester’s June 1 budget deadline for 2021. Given the economic crisis caused by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Mayor Warren is expected to announce worker layoffs. Although the city normally employs approximately 3,000 workers, an unknown number of “non-essential” workers […]