To the Editor, Many would agree, as I do, that having full-day kindergarten classes in our public schools would benefit our students academically considering the changing learning standards. According to the New York State Legislature, nine school districts statewide still only have half-day kindergarten programs. Two of these school districts are in Rockland County: North […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Everyone knows youngsters aren’t mentally or emotionally equipped to make good decisions. That’s why most parents watch their teenagers like hawks. But every year thousands of American kids get themselves into serious trouble with the law. Some of these youngsters had no prior police record. Some who entered the criminal justice system […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day 2015 was a bad year for welfare cheats in Rockland County. My administration’s increased efforts to crack down on fraud uncovered more than $1 million in public assistance overpayments in just 12 months. The investigators in our Department of Social Services reviewed over 1,200 applications – up 27 percent […]
Rockland County Executive Ed Day January 27, 2016 Jonas, the Blizzard of 2016, will certainly be remembered as a major winter event, if not one of New York’s all-time snowstorms. Thanks to the efforts of plow drivers, law enforcement, first responders, health care workers, utility crews and state and local leaders, it will also be […]
To the Editior, Ever been homeless? I mean down, right, without a roof and walls homeless. I was. I never thought of myself in those terms at that time – but I was. It’s because I was an infantryman in Vietnam. The first couple of days in the country I stayed in the barracks or tent. But then we went […]
BY DIANE DIMOND It will be a monumental decision either way: one that has the potential to shape national politics and public policy for decades to come. And don’t be fooled into thinking it’s just about U.S. immigration policy. It is much bigger than that. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether it […]