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Year 2 - Day #99 - News Flashes
Jun. 24th, 2021 09:31 pmIt's been a day - feel ever so slightly beaten up by it from various quarters. Various work-related phone calls, few that were productive. I am tired of being beaten up by my union and my workplace, but alas, I don't want another job - however tempting. Some days, I feel like there's no one in my corner - rooting me on. Well, except mother that is - but she's so far away.
Enuf whinging.
News...mostly good, some bad...but mostly good.
1. From the Governor's bi-weekly email (they took it from five days a week to two days a week. Actually it used to be seven days a week, then it was five days a week, not it's just two days a week.):
Today we close out the emergency chapter in the pandemic—effective today, New York's COVID-19 State of Emergency has ended. Federal CDC guidance will remain in place, meaning if you're unvaccinated, you should still wear a mask in public indoors. Masks will also still be required on public transit and certain other settings, like health care facilities.
2. New York State passed the Gender Recognition Act Today.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed the Gender Recognition Act, removing longstanding barriers to equality under the law and ensuring expanded protections for transgender and non-binary New Yorkers. The legislation (S.4402-B/A.5465-D) allows New Yorkers to use "X" as a non-binary sex designation on New York State driver's licenses. It also ensures that New Yorkers will be able to have their gender identity on official documents and provides protections to reduce discrimination against nonbinary and transgender New Yorkers by permitting name change and sex designation changes to be sealed more easily. Finally, the legislation will provide New Yorkers the ability to amend their birth certificates and use a designation of mother, father, or parent for the first time. [Source Governor's live briefing and NYS Government Web Site
3. We only had five people die of COVID in NY today. That's the lowest number of daily deaths since the whole started in NY State. [Source: Governor's Email.]
4. New York State finally suspended Rudy Giuliani's law license.
New York State suspended Rudy Giuliani’s law license after a court ruled he made “demonstrably false and misleading statements” while fighting the results of the 2020 election on behalf of Donald Trump.
An appellate court said that Giuliani’s actions represented an “immediate threat” to the public and that he had “directly inflamed” the tensions that led to the Capitol riot in January. The court also said that he would most likely face “permanent sanctions,” which could include disbarment. [Source NY Times Evening Briefing.]
Took them long enough. But hey, better late than never.
5. Found out about it on Twitter during lunch, and discussed with mother tonight - the partial collapse of a 12 story, 136 unit beach condo complex at around 1:30 Am, just a few miles south of Miami Beach.
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I watched on CNN this morning - it was horrible. There was no warning.
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I'm tired. After a less than helpful and ultimately patronizing interaction with Boss, that left me impotently furious, I got up from my computer and did laundry. (The good thing about being moved over to the new agency is no longer having to deal with Boss on everything.)
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Less said about work the better.
Enuf whinging.
News...mostly good, some bad...but mostly good.
1. From the Governor's bi-weekly email (they took it from five days a week to two days a week. Actually it used to be seven days a week, then it was five days a week, not it's just two days a week.):
Today we close out the emergency chapter in the pandemic—effective today, New York's COVID-19 State of Emergency has ended. Federal CDC guidance will remain in place, meaning if you're unvaccinated, you should still wear a mask in public indoors. Masks will also still be required on public transit and certain other settings, like health care facilities.
2. New York State passed the Gender Recognition Act Today.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed the Gender Recognition Act, removing longstanding barriers to equality under the law and ensuring expanded protections for transgender and non-binary New Yorkers. The legislation (S.4402-B/A.5465-D) allows New Yorkers to use "X" as a non-binary sex designation on New York State driver's licenses. It also ensures that New Yorkers will be able to have their gender identity on official documents and provides protections to reduce discrimination against nonbinary and transgender New Yorkers by permitting name change and sex designation changes to be sealed more easily. Finally, the legislation will provide New Yorkers the ability to amend their birth certificates and use a designation of mother, father, or parent for the first time. [Source Governor's live briefing and NYS Government Web Site
3. We only had five people die of COVID in NY today. That's the lowest number of daily deaths since the whole started in NY State. [Source: Governor's Email.]
4. New York State finally suspended Rudy Giuliani's law license.
New York State suspended Rudy Giuliani’s law license after a court ruled he made “demonstrably false and misleading statements” while fighting the results of the 2020 election on behalf of Donald Trump.
An appellate court said that Giuliani’s actions represented an “immediate threat” to the public and that he had “directly inflamed” the tensions that led to the Capitol riot in January. The court also said that he would most likely face “permanent sanctions,” which could include disbarment. [Source NY Times Evening Briefing.]
Took them long enough. But hey, better late than never.
5. Found out about it on Twitter during lunch, and discussed with mother tonight - the partial collapse of a 12 story, 136 unit beach condo complex at around 1:30 Am, just a few miles south of Miami Beach.
( excerpt )
I watched on CNN this morning - it was horrible. There was no warning.
***
I'm tired. After a less than helpful and ultimately patronizing interaction with Boss, that left me impotently furious, I got up from my computer and did laundry. (The good thing about being moved over to the new agency is no longer having to deal with Boss on everything.)
( Read more... )
Less said about work the better.