Gary Sutherland, External Relations Exports and Acquisitions Communication, Hydro-Québec

“We’re already behind. We have racism in every facet of life. That’s how we live,” said Wanda Willingham who represents Arbor Hill in the Albany County Legislature. She heads a task force, looking at the impact of the pandemic on local businesses.

These local students have recently earned diplomas from their college or university for the spring 2020.
 

— Heather Nelson of Delmar, earned the master of library and information science from Valdosta State University in Georgia; and

Governor Andrew announced a Cluster Action Initiative today to deal with COVID-19 hotspots in Brooklyn and Queens in New York City and in Rockland, Orange, and Broome counties.

ALBANY COUNTY — Robert G. Porter, who worked in law enforcement for the Marines for 21 years, is making his second run against incumbent Democratic Assemblywoman Patricia A. Fahy to represent the 109th District.

“I have to say to the Orthodox community tomorrow, if you’re not willing to live with these rules, then I’m going to close the synagogues,” said Governor Andrew Cuomo in a press briefing on Monday. He prioritized schools, religious gatherings, public spaces, and finally businesses as causes for COVID-19 spread in a score of downstate hotspots.

On Sunday, Governor Andrew Cuomo said of schools in COVID-19 hotspots — in Mid-Hudson and New York City — “If the localities do not do testing immediately in the schools in those areas, the state will close them immediately.” The New York State Association of Counties pushed back, saying that running school COVID-19 tests is beyond counties’ capacities, and calling on the state to organize and fund such testing.

“There could be a number of explanations for this,”Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy said of a spike in COVID-19 for 10- to 19-year-olds, “but with many college campuses still operating and many children going back to school for in-person lessons, we need to continue to monitor this troubling trend and ensure parents are able to get their children tested.”

Among the nearly 1.3 million net jobs that New York State lost from March through August, more than 320,000 were in hotels and food services. Workers in food and accommodation services are disproportionately likely to be Black or Hispanic, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Retail trade, another sector with comparatively low wages, lost 93,000 jobs, one in every 10 of its previous total.