To the Editor, Doug Jobson, Jr. is getting a “free pass” into another term of the R.C. Legislature based upon (mistaken) technicalities. I am a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and a lawyer who believes is democracy and contested elections. I’d like to believe that democracy works in America. Yet I see that […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY SUFFERN – When New Yorkers go to vote for president next year, Sen. David Carlucci (D-38) wants you to check ‘yes’ on an $1 billion bond initiative to fund Alzheimer’s research in NYS. The first public forum, a roundtable of lawmakers and neuroscientist, announced the proposed legislation at Rockland Community College on […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY Spring Valley Trustee Vilair Fonvil has filed a lawsuit against Mayor Demezza Delhomme and the NY Haitian Consulate for allegedly holding an illegal convention and planning an unsanctioned Haitian Consulate satellite office at the Luis J. Kutz Civic Center on Wed, Oct 28. Trustee Fonvil filed suit to stop the annexation of […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office held two meetings in partnership with the Business Council of Westchester and Rockland Business Association regarding the $5.2 billion Tappan Zee Hudson River Crossing Project. This is the start of the process,” Brian Conybeare said that July 2012 day in White Plains. Cuomo appointed the former News 12 […]
Murphy and pitching lead the way BY JOE RINI Two weeks before the season ended, Daniel Murphy told me that being in his first pennant race in seven years was fun; one can only imagine how much fun his first postseason has been. After sweeping the Chicago Cubs in four games in the NLCS, […]
BY MORT BECKER Rockland residents, elected officials and victims’ family members gathered at the Brinks Memorial in Nyack, NY this week for a somber, moving ceremony to remember the two Nyack police officers and the Brinks guard that were tragically murdered 34 years ago today. The Brink’s armed robbery committed on October 20, 1981, was carried out […]