Vassar women professors are suing due to gender-based pay discrimination, which is particularly sad since Vassar used to be a women’s college. Their evidence is pretty good.
There has been a spate of robberies of ice cream stores; the Saratoga Ben & Jerry’s, Stewart’s, and the Delmar Tastee-Freez. (William Kennedy was arrested for trying to steal an ATM at that last one, but not THAT William Kennedy.)
https://www.news10.com/news/crime/2-charged-with-jims-tastee-freeze-grand-larceny/
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/man-e-bike-robs-crowded-ben-jerry-s-saratoga-18346457.php
If you miss going to a parking garage to buy weed but don’t want to support Mexican drug cartels, you’re in luck: legal weed is for sale in the Saratoga City Center parking garage.
https://www.news10.com/news/saratoga-county/cannabis-growers-showcase-coming-to-saratoga-springs/
DocGo, the company which is failing to provide or coordinate services for the migrants NYC paid it to relocate upstate, is poised to win an even bigger federal contract to do the same.
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/docgo-looks-toward-4-billion-migrant-contract-18340462.php
A fugitive evaded capture for five months, camping out in the Adirondacks. I wonder what his plans were for winter?
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/dec-fugitive-hid-months-adirondacks-18338811.php
In fraud news, a Mechanicville man has been charged with Medicaid fraud after charging Medicaid for over $1 million in transportation services which didn’t happen, and a woman got worker’s comp to pay $27,000 over six years for travel reimbursement to “aquatic therapy” at the Guilderland Y.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/ex-postal-worker-watervliet-sentenced-27k-scam-18294921.php
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/saratoga-county-man-charged-1m-medicaid-scheme-18335138.php
Albany Med continues to have the second longest ER wait time in the state, and the median time listed here (six hours) is a lot shorter than what I’m hearing from friends who’ve gone. St. Peter’s is only ten minutes faster. The other area hospitals don’t have the facilities to do as much, plus they are dangerous to women because they’re affiliated with the Catholic church and can’t be relied on to prioritize women’s health over their fetuses.
