To the Editor, The outpouring of support for Hudson Valley Honor Flight’s Fourth Mission on Saturday was overwhelming. Thank you to all in the community who showed up at Stewart Airport to send off our WWII Heroes to Washington, DC and those who welcomed them home. It took sixty years for our nation to complete […]
Dear Governor Cuomo, I was recently approached by the East Ramapo Maintenance, Transportation, Special Services and Security Employees Union who are local bus drivers for the East Ramapo School district. The school board is pursuing avenues of outsourcing the responsibility of providing busing for the children. I have major concerns over this. When you choose […]
To the Editor, Over the last few months, a Ramapo Republican Committee member submitted several FOIL requests inquiring if the Town of Ramapo met its obligation to pay back the 3 million dollar loan it borrowed from the Ramapo Police Pension Fund. Based on Resolution #2013-489, the loan was supposed to be paid back, with […]
To the Editor, When a municipality transfers money from one accounting line to another it is supposed to pass a resolution authorizing the transfer. Under exceptional circumstances funds can even be loaned from one tax line to another, but they must be returned by the end of the year (with interest). Thanks to the persistence […]
COLUMN BY DIANE DIMOND Well, well, well. Washington seems to have finally taken notice of a problem we parents have been actively worried about — sex crimes against children, college students and those caught up in the despicable practice of human trafficking. Lest you might think this is a subject that only affects females, please, […]
BY SALLY C. PIPES Government-run, single-payer health care is back in vogue. It’s the Left’s admitted fallback as ObamaCare fails. And the Senate just held a hearing on single-payer systems in other countries — with no shortage of witnesses touting their supposed benefits. While Obamacare continues to disappoint, some states are pushing for a single-payer […]