To the Editor, Lately, there has been a lot of comments posted online and discussed in this nation’s Congress about whether most people who receive government disability assistance are able to “work,” or are faking and committing fraud. I’d like to share some of my views on the subject. I’d like to remind something to a lot of […]
To the Editor, Thank you for running the picture and caption of Santa Claus visiting the Thiells United Methodist Church Thrift Shop. It caught the attention of many and some folks from Montvale, New Jersey came to the Thrift Shop this past Saturday to make some purchases told us they read about it in the Rockland County Times. We […]
To the Editor, Living in Rockland County near two decades, I learned that those who would inflict environmental harm, seek out perceived weakest communities for that purpose. Enter, Anellotech and its proposed hazardous waste facility extension at the Pfizer Pearl River campus. It’s happened before. FAA and the airlines sought a massive flight-path over Rockland. […]
BY CHRIS FAULKNER The American Southwest is undergoing a spike in seismic activity. A new U.S. Geological Survey shows that a small basin on the New Mexico-Colorado border experienced 20 times more serious earthquakes between 2001 and 2011 than it had over the previous 30 years. There have been similar tremor spikes throughout the country. […]
To the Editor, New Jersey’s native people, the Lenape, which were forcibly exiled to bleak reservations in Oklahoma and Kansas, should be invited to return home and start a pot business. Fort Monmouth, a recently closed U.S. Army base in central New Jersey (near NYC) with the infrastructure of a city, would make an ideal […]
To the Editor, Congress has passed a trillion dollar omnibus spending bill that includes giving trustees of multi-employer pension plans the ability to cut pensions earned by 1.5 million workers and retirees. Many pensions will be cut by up to 50 percent to retirees who are in no position to make up for the monthly […]