cny rider

Exactly.....if you look at how much would have to be saved in a 401K to provide the rich retirement benefits state employees enjoy, you're looking at 7 figure amounts. That's coming from the taxpayers pocket.

I was working in an office on Sheridan. Guy I was working with told me to pack up and head out at lunchtime. I remember driving on the 290 west, needing to get on 990. I had made the drive so many times I just knew it was off to my right. I kept edging over, because I couldn't see any signs or any lane markings. Hardest snow I have ever seen. Somehow I found it and got home. They closed the office about 20 minutes after I Ieft. Several staff members never even made it out of the parking to and slept there.

Yes as Luke said the states have borrowing ability and many creative schemes with revenues and expenses, but they can't run a deficit like the federal government can.

How else would you allocate a desired resource, like nice apartments, if not by price? Serious question.

NY never has a deficit, because states can't run budget deficits.

I'm impressed, I wish we lived in your district. Here we had a delayed opening, now 2 day a week in person instruction and the district cancels classes at the drop of a hat. It seems like they take every possible opportunity to NOT have school here. I want my kids in school 5 days a week and the data on low case rates and transmission in school age children supports doing that.

Petty, nasty, selfish....yes. Fit to lead a democracy? Absolutely not. This is a disgrace: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-18/trump-fires-head-of-cybersecurity-agency-after-election-finding?srnd=premium&sref=C7Tki5MO

Posting lists of things Trump did does not answer the leadership question. He has failed miserably as a leader and continues to today.

This is a straw man argument. What you are ignoring while quibbling about statistics is leadership. FDR was a leader. He got Americans to do things that were unpleasant but necessary to win the war. Trump is not a leader. He is divisive and spiteful, not capable of leading in a crisis. If everyone was wearing masks during public interactions the last 6 months countless lives would have been saved, along with small businesses and jobs. Is that too much to ask of the American people?

About 2400 Americans died at Pearl Harbor. We have seen similar numbers of deaths on bad days during Covid. About 290,000 Americans died in WW II. We are rapidly closing in on that many Covid deaths in this country. We are watching the destruction of small business and economic loss on an unprecedented scale So compare FDR's response, and the unity of American spirit and resolve that won that war, with Trump's ignorant, spiteful, divisive Covid response that helped get us where we are now.

What if FDR had come out and ripped the governor of Hawaii for doing such a poor job defending the island, and told the American people the war would be over in no time with no sacrifice needed? What if he told people that the rationing was imposing on their freedom and they should just go out and eat whatever they wanted? Would things have been different?

I bet he would appreciate this one even more. The Trump anthem!

That's one way to look at it. Another would be that 4 years of Trump spewing hatred and divisiveness is what has people on both sides fired up. Of course the media covered it, but is it their fault?

An underlying concern for state officials is the pressure on Minnesota hospitals. State health officials have warned of dire capacity levels statewide in terms of the number of available intensive-care beds, saying this week that they were at 90 to 95 percent capacity. In the Twin Cities, just 22 ICU beds were available — statistics that Walz described as “catastrophic.” Hospitals and the state are trading information hour by hour on capacity restraints and how to move patients. Officials are beginning to enlist retired health-care workers to help in what could be a nightmarish scenario in coming weeks. AD Case counts are skyrocketing throughout the Midwest, with Illinois reporting 12,702 cases Thursday, a record, and Kansas reporting two record-high case counts this week. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-midwest/2020/11/12/90508b72-250f-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html

That's unbelievable. We are 100% leaf free here, and have been for several weeks. I finished leaf clean up in October.

Question for the Vermonters in the know: My brother lives in Waterbury and we always celebrate Thanksgiving together, either in Saratoga or out here in Otsego County. Is he going to be able to travel to NY and return without quarantining?

Absolutely. It should be wrapping up for good around Thanksgiving and we'll be back swimming in the lakes around Christmas.

If the timing holds it's going to be really nasty out for the Bills game.

Nice! Looked about the same here in Otsego when I left for work before 0700 although it was still pretty dark out.

Numerically, we've done many tests. But we have done them in a highly ineffectual way, with many tests being useless because turn around time has been so long. Our federal government has completely failed us. Now they're openly surrendering, per Mark Meadows comments. It's disgraceful. When has America been so content with failure, so content to let thousands die unnecessarily?

Yeah we done here. I was in the Hudson Valley (New Paltz) over the weekend and they were at peak. It was a beautiful foliage weekend at Minnewaska.

It's an interesting debate, for sure. We are a family of 5, and we typically downhill ski 8 or 10 days a year in a good year. Plattekill is our favorite local place. My wife and I nordic ski 3 or 4 days a week. Our kids are 10 and 12, We usually get them a season ski rental for their downhill gear. This year after looking at the downhill situation we elected not to get the kids ski rentals. I don't envision us going more than once or twice.

That last round certainly over performed up here. Trees down all over the place, many people without power for 24 hours. I've never seen so many local road closures and utility crews all over the place in such a small area.

We had a leaf blizzard here during that storm. Trees are down to 1/3 foliage now. It's going to be the earliest we have wrapped up leaf cleaning in the 20 years we have been here. Usually we are just starting now.